Results 2,101-2,120 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Quarterly National Household Survey: Statements. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It has gone up again.

Seanad: Quarterly National Household Survey: Statements. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He got no thanks for it.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The trouble with following my colleague, Senator McDowell, is that he is so good at developing points in a logical and calm way that I must restrain my usual style and fit in with his logical and calm way of dealing with things.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: When one is trying to deal with the massive contradiction which is the Progressive Democrats, it is very difficult to be logical because of its aspirations to be the party of social justice, of low taxes and its determination to be the party which looks after the rich. It is very hard to reconcile the three aspirations sometimes and, therefore, one is tempted to be illogical and follow it...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not believe there is a single universal law of economics. I will tell the Senator why——

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am an engineer and, therefore, something of a scientist. I am sceptical as to whether science knows any laws of nature. All we have are the best approximations of what currently is known and many of those will be revised. Newton's laws are crude approximations of Einstein's E=mc2. We spend our lives relearning and rewriting. If it is not true in the physical sciences, it is most surely not...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We were cleaning up Fianna Fáil's mess.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We are talking about the present.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is not quite as clear as the Minister makes it out to be.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: No, there is more to it than that.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Yes.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It appreciate that and that is why I do not wish to interrupt the Minister.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We have heard the argument, but is it income masked as capital gains? That is the argument.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Dardis should not insult existentialism by associating me with it. There are far more serious people involved in it.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is why they vote for the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In regard to what Senator Brian Hayes wants debated, it is worth recording that this country has the second highest level of income inequality in the OECD and is only surpassed by the United States. In the United States a debate is beginning in newspapers as diverse in their ideologies as The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal about the implications of inequality. Hurricane Katrina...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I thought they were decisions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Aspirations.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Or secret waiting lists.