Results 801-820 of 3,623 for speaker:Ulick Burke
- Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (11 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that an allocation of finance has been ring fenced for the provision of a swimming pool in Loughrea, County Galway; the reason the State Solicitor's Office has delayed processing and sanctioning the agreement with the parties involved, namely Galway County Council, Loughrea Pool Committee, his Department and a...
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Would the Minister of State do that again?
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: We need Deputy Penrose.
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: The Minister of State was very much apart from his colleagues.
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Was the Government not going to change it back very early on?
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Back again.
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: I wish to share time with Deputies Breen and Bannon.
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Anybody who fails to recognise the anger of the many elderly people who protested outside the gates of Leinster House and on the streets of Dublin in the recent past misses the whole point of the need for this legislation. It is unprecedented that a Government would introduce legislation to withdraw a service to the elderly â those over 70 â regardless of the times that are in it. If...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of personnel employed in each division in his Department based at Dockgate Office Block, Galway in each of the years from 2004 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45232/08]
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the contents of reports from the Health and Safety Authority, the risk assessment report and the Health Service Executive report on the conditions at a school (details supplied) in County Galway, he will sanction the provision of a new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44585/08]
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: I thank the Minister for his reply. On behalf of the board of management, parents' association, staff, students and community, I wish to put two important facts on the record. The new board of management was established in November 2007 and the principal was appointed in September 2007. They cannot take responsibility for anything that occurred beforehand. The Department's request...
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: All that is required is help in responding to the matters highlighted by the Minister. I will show him a picture of the classroomââ
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: ââclosed by the HSE and subsequently analysed with the help of NUI Maynooth. The HSA's preliminary report will be ready next Thursday.
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: I welcome this morning's decision that senior departmental officials will visit the school in the coming week but people want a replacement school because of the danger involved. The physical deterioration of the school cannot be exaggerated. None of the reports is scaremongering; they highlight the reality of what the children and staff must bear. The remedial work carried out was to stop...
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: I want the Minister to understand the situation, namely, a new board of management and a new principal. I ask him to bear this fact in mind. They cannot take responsibility for the situation. While expenditure on a security camera may not be seen as a priority in the Department's eyes, the school's dilapidated appearance led to a high degree of vandalism. That has since ceased. As a...
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: On a point of information, is the Minister rowing back on the policyââ
- School Accommodation. (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: ââto the effect that rural national schools will not be closed?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: I support the amendments on the back to education allowance. I urge the Minister to be conscious that many young people who are now unemployed left the education scene just before or after their leaving certificate, lured into employment by the attractive incomes and salaries available in the building industry and other manufacturing industries with opportunities for overtime. Many of these...
- Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (3 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he was informed of the proposal to ban whitefish fishing in area 6A by the EU Commission; if he has conveyed his opposition or other views to the Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43941/08]
- Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (3 Dec 2008)
Ulick Burke: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has decided on the way the share-out of the additional mackerel quota will be equally divided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43942/08]