Results 3,221-3,240 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: We are not suggestingâ
- Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Amendment No. 7 cannot be moved. It has been ruled out of order as it would involve a potential charge on the Exchequer.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Will the Leader request the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to come to the House as a matter of urgency to debate his withdrawal of the subsidy towards affordable housing? Many local authority housing programmes have been thrown into complete disarray as a result. It was amazing that the Taoiseach went to Galway last weekend and declared that an additional â¬15 million...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: It is a painful extraction.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: He did not do himself many favours.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House as a matter of urgency? I support Senator Tuffy's earlier comments. It is difficult to understand our complacency when a conference held by the Combat Poverty Agency and the Department of Health and Children in Dublin yesterday was told that 6,000 people died prematurely last year primarily because they could not...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: And about four other Senators opposite.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I move: That Seanad Ãireann is opposed to the reintroduction of third level tuition fees. I wish to share my time with Senators Brian Hayes and Finucane.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister for Defence, Deputy Michael Smith, to the House. Given his portfolio, is his presence linked to the fact that he was marshalling the troops because of dissent expressed in the ranks in recent months?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I wish to comment on the Government amendment, which fails to recognise the motion. The controversy that has arisen is of the making of the Minister for Education and Science. When he gave an interview to The Irish Times last September in which he floated kites as to his intentions, people in the media and education thought they were witnessing a visionary Minister for Education and Science....
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Spin doctors, no doubt.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Face them.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Cuts of â¬36 million.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The temperature has melted the glue.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Will fees be reintroduced?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Are the Senator's colleagues elitist?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Senator should ask the Progressive Democrats.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Including the elitists?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Is this a new twist on it?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: And the glass is half empty.