Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

When I read it first it took me back to a time in my youth when I witnessed a frustrated farmer going out with a scatter-gun to shoot the crows eating his corn. He fired at everything in sight but hit nothing. That sums up what Senator Ulick Burke is afflicted with tonight and what his spin doctors have foisted on him. The scatter-gun approach he has taken in this Chamber this evening does no service to a debate on the many serious issues in education that need to be debated.