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Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This is wonderful a day after the report on racism.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should choose his language carefully.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: And lower levels of greenhouse emissions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My party leader is sleeping very well.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: He was running away. He was afraid of Deputy Rabbitte.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Could we have a forecast?

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion. (22 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: When one has been affected by the incidence of cancer in one's immediate family, one can appreciate, as I do, the extraordinary quality of service that can be available. I happen to live in a city where, as Senator Henry said, if one has the means, a high quality level of cancer care is available. When one is a politician, the incidence of cancer within one's family circle focuses one on what...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am as aware as anybody else of issues related to our declining competitiveness. It is worth pointing out that the Scandinavian countries are mostly in the top ten while we are in the bottom 20s in terms of international competitiveness. Therefore, when we deal with issues such as electricity and energy we need to make sure that what we will do is what will work. We have attempted to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We have never got a plan from the Government, rather a succession of aspirations and promises that were never kept.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Transport 21 was perhaps the nadir when the Government produced a loose-leaf paper with a proposal to spend €30 billion. That was not a plan but the problem is that the Government thinks it is. The sooner we all figure that out the better. When a rottweiler runs away from a rabbit there is a strange political climate. In that context, I want to record something I found profoundly offensive,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not wish for anything else to damage the PDs but I am entertained by the fact that on the same street as its offices there is a premises called Gormleys. I wonder did the PDs get a little cross, miss the target and hit their own premises instead of Gormleys because I cannot help being amused by the coincidence of names. Yesterday morning a number of Members said they would welcome the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It seems that self-regulating professions regulate themselves in the interests of the profession not of the consumer. I am a member of the engineering profession, which is nominally self-regulating. It has unfortunately to live in a much more competitive market-based model of activity than the other professions I mentioned and because of that it has failed miserably in any attempts — of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is what he said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We all support it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Fine Gael's increasing disillusionment with the free market will make the negotiation of a programme for Government much easier.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: For the next Government to be successful in comparison with the incumbent, it will not have to do much. We have very little to compare with, except delay.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There is a famous phrase, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." Fianna Fáil should be afraid when Senator Ross approaches.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps we might have a debate on something that emerged when we were off for a week around St. Patrick's Day. A group of secondary schoolgirls from County Laois appeared on the main evening news to demonstrate how easy it was to buy instruments of torture and small arms over the Internet. In a country that is in crisis regarding public fear of gun crime and the widespread use of weapons, the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Guardian was responsible for exposing more of the scandals of the present Labour Government than all the right-wing press in Britain put together.