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Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: That is a big change in policy.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Special times.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: We are used to that too.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: There has and we are fed up to the teeth with it.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: I support Senator Coghlan's amendment. On Second Stage, I asked the Minister of State to request the Minister to address the anomaly in regard to the staged closure of a particular activity, whereby some workers opted to go early while others would remain past 25 May. There is room for a special investigation to address this matter. Had the workers known that the changes would be made they...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Real, not imaginary.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Minister of State take special cognisance of this? The Tánaiste was in the presence of public representatives, workers and management when she gave an undertaking. She gave an undertaking – not in terms of a redundancy situation – that she would help in every way possible. She did so and I acknowledge that. She recognised the need of people, the trauma they were experiencing and...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: In view of all the undertakings given and the support from other agencies, I am requesting that the Tánaiste give an up-to-date appraisal of all progress, or the lack thereof, since 15 January, when the town experienced this blow. The latter is directly related to the amendment in that people are caught in a catch-22 situation. That is one instance where the overlap will differentiate...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: May I respond briefly?

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Minister of State has avoided answering my question.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister of State. Will he inform the House as to the date on which the Attorney General gave that advice? Was it prior to the debacle in Kilkenny? Did the Tánaiste have that advice when she visited the workers and made this supposed or alleged commitment?

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Does the Minister of State know whether the Tánaiste had the advice of the Attorney General at that time?

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: He was digging deep for himself.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: He usually digs.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: This is not a grant.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Deputy Cassidy is under starter's orders.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader to request the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to attend the House and declare once and for all his position with regard to the rehabilitation of abandoned mining sites. Jobs are currently very difficult to create, especially in the west, and two companies are on the point of establishing processes and creating jobs at the old mine in Tynagh, County Galway....

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Is the Senator still referring to dollars?

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: Will the Government create enough jobs to allow the nurses to stay here?

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Ulick Burke: The backbenchers were all out on the plinth.