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- Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: There is a need to clean the hospitals.
- Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I am concerned about the hospitals.
- Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for selecting this matter. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, to the House. Many schools in County Galway have recently lost the designation of disadvantaged. People at the coalface in those schools recognise they are being penalised for their excellence. This is true in the case of Mercy College, Woodford, County Galway, a second level school...
- Seanad: Disadvantaged Status. (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Will the Minister of State confirm that home school community liaison supports will continue to be available to schools which were informed they would lose such supports as and from January 2007?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I reiterate the call for the Minister for Education and Science to attend the House for an urgent debate on a series of educational crises that have arisen on her watch and particularly in the last 12 months. There is a proposal to close Seamount College, a second level school in Kinvara, County Galway. That school has been shown to be not only viable but also among the highest ranking...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I am urgently seeking a debate. In addition, catchment areas throughout the country have been in place without change for the past 30 years, despite the many representations of public representatives, parents and all the partners in education. We now find that the catchment area of Kinvara school has been abolished and subsumed into the Gort area. We are told that the children of Kinvara,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I will finish on this point. There is collusion at the highest level between some of the partners in education to allow this to happen when the school has been shown to be viable, given that approximately 500 potential students could be accommodated there. There is also the factââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I do not know of any other way as the Minister will not reply to representations and we get answers that are only partially true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: The last point I wish to make isââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: ââ-that the Leader should personally take up the matter with the Minister. The Minister should come to the House and definitively state why, at a time when â¬184 billion is being spent on infrastructure, we are closing a viable school in Kinvara, County Galway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Oranmore.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Wait for the rest of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: So says the Independent.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I note the regret in the Senator's voice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: I never thought it would be Deputy Michael McDowell.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: A line in the sand.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: The Department's line is new spin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Did the Senator clear that with the Progressive Democrats?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
Ulick Burke: Popular among the Trinity electorate.