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- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: It has collapsed.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: They are having another meeting.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: I thank Deputy Hayes for sharing his time. I declare my full support for the Labour Party motion before the House. In his address to the House this evening, the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, described the education measures in the budget as "the best we could do in the circumstances". The measures in question include 33 cuts which will affect children in our primary and secondary...
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Last Thursday evening in this House a former Minister for Education, when charged with the idea that 1,000 second-level teachers will be lost, said, in essence, that only temporary or part-time teachers will lose their jobs. Tell that to the many people who have been teaching for ten years in a school and have not yet got a permanent position as a teacher. The Minister presides over that...
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: That is the consequence the Minister must accept when he says he had no alternative. The transition year was introduced by former Fine Gael Minister, Mr. Richard Burke way back. I taught in one of the schools in which it was piloted, Garbally College in Ballinasloe. I have received a number of texts and e-mails from students of that school who have traditionally had access to the transition...
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Shame.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Try again.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Excuses.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: The Minister has not shown much goodwill.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: It is acting with horrible intent.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: If ever.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: That would be a change from previously.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the budget debate. When the Taoiseach made his statement to the House, one comment in particular caught my attention. He stated: " Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures." Nothing has ever been displayed to such an extent as these words. It was unprecedented to bring the budget forward from the usual date in December to October. In...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: I appreciate the indulgence of the Chair. I call on the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to reconsider the severe cuts proposed. He must not decimate agriculture, particularly in the west where dependency on support mechanisms is at its greatest. The Government should generate additional revenue from tax exiles, many of whom return to Ireland now and again...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: He might not respond in the same way to Deputy O'Rourke.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Will the Deputy fill us in on that?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Did Deputy O'Rourke check the position on Google in regard to some of her own colleagues?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: Deputy O'Rourke must not have met the elderly outside the House yesterday.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: I would love to know where Deputy O'Rourke met those people.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Ulick Burke: No more subs.