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- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: What about the back to education scheme, the spin doctoring and the U-turns?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister is digging deep. He should look for the empty tin can that was in evidence earlier.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Some 17 pages of broken promises.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Has the Minister spoken to his colleague in the Department of Social and Family Affairs?
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I will, but it is very difficult not to respond.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The modern visionary.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: That is wrong. Rubbish.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Give them a mention.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I thank all the Senators who contributed to this debate. I offer my sympathy to the Minister for the frame of mind in which he has come to the House today. I know that the ire within him has been fuelled by the failure of his colleagues both at Cabinet and parliamentary level to support him. The abuse he gave to the Members of this House and to his own colleague, the former Minister for...
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister is facing a situation where, for the second time in two years, he is to be faced down and he will have to raise the white flag.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: Where is education tonight? It is furthest from the Minister's concerns which are boiling within him. He is now in a corner and he does not know whether he will get out of that corner as a Minister. The tragedy is that he has a copy of a letter from a lady in this city, as I have.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: She is afraid that she cannot finance her two children to attend third level education. (Interruptions).
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister does not mention these people. He will go to the extreme and point the finger at everyone else. That is his problem and he must solve it. He must make a decision but is not being helped by his colleagues, wherever they are or however they manifest themselves on the day he reports. He has had a review in the offing since last September. He said last Easter that one way or the...
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister is not interested in providing funding to provide for greater access for the disadvantaged.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister is trying to fly another kite at this late hour and may be able to rescue himself with a soft landing somewhere. If he decides to reintroduce fees for any group, except perhaps that of Senator Wilson, he will be in a very serious situation. (Interruptions).
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: For the sake of consistency, let me read the following statement by Senator Ormonde on 8 November 1995. She argued in favour of the extension of fees as follows: "I cannot understand why we did not take this further step which would have meant so much for those students who are dying for the opportunity to get back into the education system." That is consistency.
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I am quoting from the record of the debate in which Senator Ormonde moved the following motion: That Seanad Ãireann regrets the failure of the Minister for Education to abolish fees for evening and part-time students at third level and calls on the Minister to give a commitment to abolish such fees. (Interruptions).
- Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: That is the U-turn the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, and the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Coughlan, have done.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matter. - Neurosurgical Services. (21 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: I wish to refer to an usual situation. A former professor of medicine in New York University has offered a very generous grant of $4 million for the provision of a neurosurgical facility at University College Hospital, Galway. The staff at the hospital, however, are growing frustrated that the Minister for Health and Children has not accepted this generous grant to provide the service because...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)
Ulick Burke: The confusion expressed by Senator Mansergh in his contributionâ