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Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: There would be substantial costs.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: The plinths were worn by the efforts in a previous Government's time.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: Is this another promise?

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: Resource them.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: We have heard that before.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Minister will do so, but for the wrong reasons.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Leader should remember that for the next day.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: Did the Senator get a penalty point or something?

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House and the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. At the beginning of the debate, the Minister told us, "The news is not good." There has been an endeavour to put a spin on an intolerable situation and I do not know how any Minister could describe the situation in such mild terms. We have waited to give an opportunity to the Minister to implement...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Apr 2003)

Ulick Burke: I call on the Leader to request the Minister for Agriculture and Food to personally intervene in the current difficulties within his Department where clerical personnel yesterday received notice by e-mail that they had been taken off the payroll. If industrial relations within Departments have descended to that level, there will be serious consequences. Many farmers have great difficulty...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Senator is obviously playing to the gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: I will be brief. I support Senator Norris's call for an urgent debate on the war in Iraq. As each day goes by it seems that the civilian population of Iraq becomes more and more a pawn in the conflict. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children into the House as a matter of urgency next week to discuss the report of the task force on medical staffing because there are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: Brevity.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, before section 3, to insert the following new section: "3.–The Minister shall, as soon as may be, after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a Report on the effects of abolishing the Back to Education Allowance for post graduate students and the implications of this decision concerning access to third level...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: Tell them to go to Iraq.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: Cruel.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: Give us a chance. We will make suggestions.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: And the spins.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: And the photographs.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Ulick Burke: The Minister has firmly slammed the door on the many people seeking to return to education. The Department has failed – I do not believe the Minister is that way inclined – to address the problems faced by those who re-enter the education system. Many of them, aged 21 years plus, having dropped out of education for various reasons, are going through hell on earth trying to fit in with...