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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (18 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Will they believe it?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (18 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House and wish her great success in her portfolio. It must have been difficult for the Minister, in presenting her first Social Welfare Bill, to have to enter both Houses with her hands up – as described in sections of the media – following the announcement of a disappointing budget. The Minister said this year's social welfare package is a reflection of the...

Seanad: Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage. (18 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: In view of the fact that there will be monitoring of all vehicles coming to this country, does the Minister envisage that huge numbers of personnel will have to be recruited to carry out these checks rather than putting the obligation on the commercial carriers, which we thought would be the case up to a few moments ago? Obviously this is a huge task. Given that the Minister's colleagues have...

Seanad: Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage. (18 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Recently, 19 students were refused visas which would have enabled them to study at business and language schools here. At the same time, schools in Dublin such as Portobello College, the American College Dublin and the Dublin Business School, can freely accept students from the same international agency. Because these students want to study in the provinces, they are being denied access for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader of the House to impress on the Minister for Education and Science the urgency to call together immediately the ASTI and the school managerial bodies, so that we will not go in to 2003 with a renewed dispute on supervision and substitution in second level schools. Through the insistence and stubbornness of the previous Minister, this dispute has already cost €27 million...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I want to forewarn him that there is discrimination between schools of business in Dublin and—

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I would like to ask the Minister of State about the NDFA, the role of which is to advise, as Senator Mansergh has mentioned. Staff of local authorities were traditionally the best placed persons to give advice on the ground. Will the new agency seek advice from representatives of local authorities? If not, where do we stand in relation to the last Government's policy, as outlined in Better...

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: The Minister is losing touch.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Will the Minister confirm what Senator Mansergh has said, that it is a substitution for consultants? If this body is to substitute for consultants and there has to be an assessment by it of all projects throughout the country, surely it will have to call in consultants' expertise. If not, then the agency will be nothing more than a stalling group for endless projects, as in the Department of...

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: At the rate the Government is going it is proving itself wrong.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: What about the consultants?

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: One would not have to be an expert to know that.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: That is the third time the Minister of State has said that.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: A Bertie bowl Dáil. Amendment put and declared lost.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: The Minister of State did not answer my question about the engagement of consultants by the agency. Section 4(3) of the Bill clearly states—

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (17 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Did the Minister of State ever try?

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: I move: That Seanad Éireann –deplores the failure of both Government Parties to honour their election pledges to eliminate the current substandard inadequate primary school buildings and facilities, that are a risk to the health and safety of pupils and teachers and prevent the implementations of the full primary school curriculum: –condemns the decision of the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: Yes, I have the headline: "Minister's good news for Coralstown school deputation." A deputation, headed by the then Senator, visited the then Minister's clinic and the good news was announced in a blaze of glory afterwards. It is strange that this school is not among the 17 in respect of which progress has been made. How can boards of management, parents and pupils in the other 398 schools in...

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: It has been nurtured by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Ulick Burke: They are real.