Results 2,161-2,180 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was hours.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Well done.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is absolute rubbish.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is difficult sometimes to restrain oneself.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would like people to attempt a degree of consistency. I have often stood here before or after Senator Minihan, and we have both, in unequivocal terms believed in the value of condemnation. This is the belief that it is important that small countries take a position based on morality. As I understand Senator Lydon's honourable position on the issue over a period of time I will restrain...

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would appreciate if he gave the indication that the issue was serious. Effectively, control of Iraq has been handed over to a Shi'ite militia in Shi'ite areas, to a nominal Iraqi army under the control of many of the militias fighting the insurgency and to a Kurdish army in the areas of Iraq which have a Kurdish majority. It is impossible to see the purpose served by the forces of...

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Of course not. We are prepared to nod and wink to each other, and say: "We won't ask and you won't say. We won't let on and you won't pretend, and, hopefully, you won't embarrass us." It is getting to a stage where some civilised country in the Western world must stand back and say that the whole Iraq project has failed. There is no stable Government and no security in Iraq. Some 85% of the...

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: So al-Jazeera is bombed, an example of the independent and free media.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is called a put down, is it?

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Did they say that they do it, but that it does not happen here? Did they deny that they ever do it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am happy to agree with Senator Brian Hayes on the issue of the brave lady who perhaps sorted out, once and for all, the position of people with guide dogs. However, as somebody who lives a long way from Dublin I am particularly disturbed by the proposal that seems to have emanated from Dublin City Council that the sort of identification for drivers with disabilities which the rest of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is unfair to drivers in Dublin. It will make it impossible for drivers with disabilities outside Dublin to come into the city. They will have to pay €100, if these bureaucrats get their way, for the privilege of a separate recognition. The council has decided that the standard blue permit is being abused. I heard no evidence of this. The person I heard on the radio stated that all an...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: They cannot.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We had a debate before on this.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: What risk taking. Irish capitalism.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In an extraordinary attempt by the worst kind of business practice to reassert its capacity to exploit, which is what the Irish Ferries dispute is about, one of the Government's arguments was that legislation offered to it in the other House could not be introduced because it would be in breach of European obligations. I have before me amendment No. 63 to the Irish Medicines Board...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Ireland was then an impoverished country, ruined by Fianna Fáil. It was a long time ago.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Upset the Roman Catholic Church?