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Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We will be lucky to see her again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In the place where I occasionally work, if somebody claims to have a PhD, we check it out properly. We are able to distinguish between real PhDs and pretend PhDs. I have worked there for almost 30 years and we have never recruited somebody who did not have a real PhD. We manage that fairly well, as does every other institute of technology and university in the country. In the Cork Institute...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Everybody apparently knows these people. It appears that every crime journalist can name all of these people. Either we will not give our police force sufficient resources or we do not have the will to give the same attention to the movement of these people that was correctly given to people who were even suspected of having connections with the Provisional IRA. Could we have a debate at some...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is a story for another day. The founding leader said that people were still investing enormous amounts of money in property which he described as, "the least efficient form of investment". Can somebody explain to me why the Progressive Democrats vigorously supported a reduction in capital gains tax which stimulated this "least efficient form of investment"?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Can I ask for a debate on the property market which the Central Bank and all other commentators think poses the greatest risk to the future of the economy?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He claimed to have one.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We will get Senator Ross an honorary degree from the NUI.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: And of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Job sharing with the Sunday World.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He is on radio shows.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Why are we encouraging it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is really relevant to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It does nothing properly.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am glad the Minister of State mentioned Ard-Fheiseanna.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is appalling rather than "unsatisfactory", which is far too soft a word.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am usually rude but I wish to say the Minister of State is welcome. The fact that he ran away, so to speak, from a few of the hard questions is perhaps understandable. Given all the kind words he used about the Labour Party motion, it is not clear to me the reason there must be an amendment, or one of this scale, to the motion but we will live with that. There is a fundamental issue to be...

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The third man is Deputy Michael D. Higgins — there is absolutely no doubt about that. There is a wonderful rhetoric of compassion, concern and all the good, social democratic instincts, but the fundamental problem is the delivery of the resources to follow through on that. The delivery of such resources is what distinguishes conservatism from social democracy. That is the reason the...

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We could solve many of the problems that way.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is difficult with 35 children in a classroom.