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Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: They were not from Cork city.

Seanad: Suicide Prevention Strategy: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I stated previously when discussing suicide and other similar tragedies that I am reluctant to get involved in Government bashing. That reluctance is not my normal style but apart from a couple of comments I will not do so. The strategy was slow to arrive and, as with many issues, the Government did not appear to wake up to the scale of the problem until quite late into its second term....

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It may happen to the Minister soon as well.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: On a point of order, has the Minister forgotten there is a time limit on his speech?

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Has the Minister forgotten that there is a suggested time limit on his speech?

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am surprised at Senator Cox's——

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ——understanding of policy and Standing Orders.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: My colleagues here have been keeping a watchful eye on the Fianna Fáil Senators and their enthusiasm for attacking two members of the Government. Every day we get closer to a general election.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The issues about which they are concerned depend on where the Ministers are. When Deputy Martin was Minister for Health and Children, they were largely silent on health issues, but all of a sudden, since they got a Progressive Democrat Minister to shout at, the collected ranks of Fianna Fáil have now discovered the crisis in the health service.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is very convenient for them too that there is a Progressive Democratic Minister in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and so they have been very vocal on law and order issues for the past number of years. They are now equally vocal on child care issues. Let me point out something to the Fianna Fáil Senators.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The National Economic and Social Forum described in a policy audit how the Government was guilty of inaction, peripheral implementation and drift in the area of implementing policy on early childhood care and education. It was not the Labour Party, the Independent Group or Fine Gael that pointed this out, but the body set up by the Government to provide an objective view. Many of us are...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: What we did was to hand over an economy in better shape than it is now. It had a better average growth rate and a lower inflation rate than the former Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy, managed and had a budget surplus that he only managed to sustain by taking large amounts of money from the social insurance fund. Those are the facts of what was a responsible Government. The problem was that...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is about the failure to provide child care. The Government has not even started to talk about providing child care. What it has done is talk about planning to have a review to think about it. We know what should be done. Senators can read what is required in the Labour Party document. That is what needs to be and could be done. That is what the Government should say it will do.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We produced a brilliant economy. The Minister continues to laugh at that brilliant economy because that is all he can do. I will remember forever, in terms of a statement about the failure of this Government, Senator Cox's statement that she is ashamed of the Government amendment. She has every reason to be ashamed, not just of the amendment, but of the total absence of policy in this area,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I assume the rules of this House are applied in the same way to everybody who speaks here and that we will be left with no uncertainty about this in the future. I ask the Leader for a debate on workers' protection legislation for a number of reasons, including the apparent stalemate on whether we will have a further partnership agreement. While this stalemate crystalised around one issue, it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is looking into his own heart.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was not announced at the British Labour Party conference.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Taoiseach.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We would all want to be careful because, within six months, if Mr. Blair has his way, we could all be arrested if we say something about 1916 in the British jurisdiction, as it may be regarded as a criminal offence of glorifying what the British call terrorism. I would hate to see Senator Norris arrested if he crossed the Border. There have rarely been moments in a country's history when so...