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Seanad: Interpretation Bill 2000: Report and Final Stages. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister could accept the amendment and then delete it in the other House.

Seanad: Interpretation Bill 2000: Report and Final Stages. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for his willingness to accept a proposal from Senator Brian Hayes for a fixed timetable for the introduction of the Bill. As a Member of the House I would appreciate that. On the issue of records and so on, when my children, who are aged from mid 20s down, say, "I wrote to somebody", they mean they sent them an e-mail. If they wrote a letter and put a stamp on...

Seanad: Interpretation Bill 2000: Report and Final Stages. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Deputy Leader for facilitating us in that regard.

Seanad: Interpretation Bill 2000: Report and Final Stages. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Copyright.

Seanad: National Consumer Agency: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am somewhat less organised than usual but I know the Leas-Chathaoirleach will forgive me because he is always very forgiving. I never subscribed to the left-wing mantra that we should control prices. I never did and do not now believe it. Even at the high point of the early days of left-wing experiments it never succeeded in eliminating the impact of levels of supply and demand on the real...

Seanad: National Consumer Agency: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I live in the real world and socialists are the ones who must deal with the realities and cruelties of that competitive world. That does not mean one can deny what happens. There is a fair amount of evidence now that many people got rich in Britain during the Second World War by ripping off both the state and their neighbours. They charged what the market would stand for goods and services...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second Senator Brian Hayes's proposal for an amendment to the Order of Business. It is increasingly clear that the concept of a regulator was introduced to pursue not the well-being of consumers but an ideological agenda. In this instance the regulator has recommended the opposite of what the ideology demanded so the regulator is ignored. There is a strong case for an intelligent discussion...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There will be a protest rally this evening and I wish to repeat the words of the former Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs——

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We need a thorough debate on our overseas development aid and a decision from the Government to get back to a decent agenda and timescale for our achievement of the UN target. The Department of Finance wants to push it so far into the future that it will have plenty of opportunities to sabotage it again. We can afford to do this by 2007. We can definitely manage to do it by 2010. I wish to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Of course it is.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator may know what is best but the people do not agree with him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Níor thug mé faoi deara go raibh an oiread sin daoine ag caint faoi anim baile an Daingean. Níor gá an iomarca aird a thabhairt don feactas atá ar siúl. While the statement is, of course, welcome and one welcomes and accepts the report of the international decommissioning body, we can only hope for progress. We could also hope for normal politics. I and, I am sure, most Members are sick...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is a certain appositeness in this debate because, due to the spectrum of democratic politics, the Minister and I are close to opposite extremes.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He is not afraid that some thug operating on my behalf will attack him and, similarly, I am not afraid some thug operating on his behalf will attack me. We always recognised the rules and continue to do so. If I win, I win and if I lose, I accept the outcome. Not only is there only one police force in the State, there is only one Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: However, members of a certain political party still use the phrase. Even as they say there is only one army, they then talk of Óglaigh na hÉireann as belonging to them. It does not belong to them. Neither does it belong to the Government. Óglaigh na hÉireann belongs to the people through the Constitution. Only through the Constitution and constitutionally elected Governments, that can...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Gandhi was a man who brought an empire to its knees on the sacred principle that he would not take up arms against anybody. My two greatest heroes are Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Both achieved enormous change in their societies but said it was not morally justifiable to kill one person to achieve that change. The idea that a man who tells lies about his past and who leads a party that was...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It can only be done by the other 161 Deputies and 60 Members of the Seanad telling the five Deputies in question they are not above everybody else. They have been allowed into a privileged club with rules that demand respect. They must behave by the rules and not fudge or be ambiguous. The position is clear and unequivocal. They must co-operate with the forces of law and order and recognise...