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Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: He always is.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: We will not get any action.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: The inspectors have much to learn.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Few have just 20 pupils.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: The Minister does not seem to be worried about it either.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: It suited her to move it forward on that day.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Under 20.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: That is very optimistic of him.

Seanad: Learning to Teach Report: Statements. (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister for Education and Science to the House and thank the Leader for arranging this debate on foot of our learning last week of the report's launch. The method by which many people learned about the report rang alarm bells and, despite the Minister's best efforts to aver otherwise, most people are clear in their minds that the leaking of the report to certain sections of...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: In the past ten years or more, the credibility of our planning process has taken serious knocks on numerous occasions. A recent decision of the High Court which agreed a decision by An Bord Pleanála that planning permission for a landfill facility in County Kildare be overturned seems to question the credibility of the processes within An Bord Pleanála. It asked that it be quashed because...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Paddy the plasterer was there too.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: And the situation has got worse.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: If the Senator believes that she will believe anything.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: Fianna Fáil has been in power for 18 of the last 20 years.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: There were to be no waiting lists within two years of this Government taking office.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: We want the money to be spent properly.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: PPARS.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: The Senator will be lucky to be sitting on the Government benches.

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Minister said she came in to deal with health reform but her statement was that it was meaningless to most people. Those are her words, open to correction on the blacks when they come out eventually. When a Minister for Health and Children says that reform is meaningless to most people, surely that is a clear admission of the fact that the...

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)

Ulick Burke: If Senators Daly or Feeney want to check, I suggest they go downstairs and get a copy of the blacks. I took down what she said verbatim.