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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: Senator Leyden has lost there too.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: I support the call by Senator Brian Hayes on the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House to clarify the SSIA issue. The interest accruing on such accounts is being taken into account by local authorities and vocational education committees in assessing the income of parents of students seeking maintenance grants. As far back as April, people who had not finalised their...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: I will be brief. In the past two or three years, the Houses of the Oireachtas have introduced two important Bills with regard to people with intellectual and physical disabilities. We were promised that all people with disabilities would be supported to the farthest possible extent. Unfortunately, this has not happened. In County Galway, parents are waiting for three years for an...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: In County Dublin, the wait is for five to ten years. All of this occurs despite the promise of resources and staff that would be made available. The kernel to all of this is——

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: ——we do not have the professional staff to deliver the services we were told would be made available. After nine years of this Government, matters have become worse.

Seanad: Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 in the name of Senator McCarthy are related and may be discussed together.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: Take note.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: Are we taking the report now?

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to the House. This matter concerns the need for the Minster for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive, HSE, to provide adequate funding to the service providers, the Brothers of Charity, in Ballinasloe for the delivery of a properly resourced service to persons with disabilities, both adults and children, who are...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: I will finish on this important point and beg the Leas-Chathaoirleach's indulgence. A lady of 74 years, who is mother of a child named Patrick with special needs wrote that while she cared for him full-time, she had been staying in Portiuncula Hospital since last June and did not know how much longer she would be there. She depends on her daughters to look after him, one of whom lives in...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: An officer of the Health Service Executive, who attended the same group meeting as we had held earlier, stated that he was quite shocked by the shortfall in the services which he had seen. He stated that there were shortfalls at all times due to the lack of proper funding for the services in the past. He was also concerned at the manner in which moneys were distributed in the west using a...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Ulick Burke: During the past two weeks, I have been contacted by three people whose operations at University College Hospital, Galway were cancelled on more than one occasion. Last year 3,334 people had their operations cancelled. This year, it seems that number will be matched. It is one of the worst rates of cancellations, second only to that at St. James's Hospital in Dublin. We are informed it is...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Ulick Burke: In its programme for Government set out in 2002, this Government of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats gave an undertaking that no child under the age of nine would be in a class of more than 20 pupils by the end of this Government's lifetime. There are only eight or nine months left in the lifetime of the Government, and it is unfortunate that the Minister for Education and Science,...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Ulick Burke: Some 33% of the student intake this year is to class sizes of over 25. It is a scandal and something must be done. I ask the Leader to arrange an early debate so the Minister might come before the Seanad and reassess her stance on the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Ulick Burke: Is there some doubt in the Senator's mind?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Ulick Burke: I am acquainted with a woman who has waited ten months for her pension.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Ulick Burke: Has the Cathaoirleach received notice of a vow of silence taken by the Progressive Democrats?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Ulick Burke: I ask the Leader to contact the responsible Minister with a view to rectifying this situation with the companies involved. I also ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ask inspectors of employment to be more proactive in their work relating to the underpayment of foreign workers, particularly in the security and construction industries. I met a young Polish man in Galway...

Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, subsection (2), line 24, after "provisions" to insert the following: ", but all sections shall come into operation within 12 months of its passing into law". I welcome the Minister to the House. I hope she will consider this amendment on the basis of the discussion on a particular case yesterday in regard to people with disabilities. I welcome the fact that,...

Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Ulick Burke: I move amendment No. 4: In page 13, line 41, to delete "months," and substitute "months". Section 16 reads, "The governing body of a college shall, as soon as may be, but not later than 3 months, after the end". I do not know what the significance of that comma is, as it makes the situation meaningless. It is a technical error.