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Seanad: Deaths of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy. (16 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Unfortunately I did not personally know either Senator Mannion or Senator Codd. Occasions such as this provide the opportunity to pay tribute to the principle of service as much as to individuals. It is worth repeating that their service was worthwhile even though not all of us would have known about it. I express my condolences to their families for their loss. It is certain that both of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Nuair a tharlóidh sé, tá súil agam nach mbeidh reifreann eile i mbaile fearainn eile ar imeall Gaeltachta ag iarraidh go n-athrófar an logainm ó Ghaelainn go Béarla toisc nach dtaitnaíonn sé le daoine bheith ainmnithe mar chuid den Ghaeltacht. Má theastaíonn le pobal an Daingin an logainm a athrú go Béarla, ba chóir go n-imeoidh siad amach as an Ghaeltacht. Ní féidir liom...

Seanad: Ageism Policy: Statements. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will be 60 in August.

Seanad: Ageism Policy: Statements. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am not aware of anything that has changed about me apart from when I look in the mirror and see grey hair, which used to be black. I do not feel older intellectually. When I was younger I was more conservative in many ways but my politics have shifted to the left because I have developed an even healthier scepticism of all forms of power and authority as I have gotten older. I should be...

Seanad: Ageism Policy: Statements. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Sean Connery is regularly selected as one of the sexiest actors in the world. He is even older than I am, although I do not aspire to be him. However, this is a serious issue, which concerns integrating the fact that our population is ageing into a single view of society, which is not made up of younger and older people but which recognises that older people will frequent the same places as...

Seanad: Energy Strategy: Motion. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Energy Strategy: Motion. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I might mention CIT, which has been doing those things for longer than UCD.

Seanad: Energy Strategy: Motion. (17 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is a pity that Senator Minihan decided to make unnecessary party political points. I am really not interested in what happened in the Dáil, which can be a place of irrational confrontation and perhaps not the right setting to discuss political or other major strategic decisions. Energy is not the only issue about which we should concern ourselves. There has been a great surge in the price...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Dúirt mé go raibh sé de shaor-rogha ag pobal an Daingin aon ainm a theastaíonn uathu a bheith ar a mbaile. Níl sé réasúnta nó intuigthe, áfach, go bhfanfadh pobal taobh istigh den Ghaeltacht agus iad ag teastáil ag an am céanna go n-ainmneofaí an baile as Béarla. I cannot see the logic. If the people of Dingle want to leave the Gaeltacht, so be it. It is their absolute right as...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator must be feeling——

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I have no idea why Senator Norris feels it necessary to abuse the fact that I can speak Irish.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I speak the two languages with reasonable comportment. If people wish to leave the Gaeltacht, nobody will stop them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Until recently, when the people of the Gaeltacht received funding, the people of Dingle made it quite clear what they thought of the Irish language. It was only when muintir na Gaeltachta managed to have spending power that pobail an Daingean discovered that the Irish language had some positives. I will repeat this.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I ask for a debate on the priorities of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. On the one hand, it was warned by a Law Reform Commission report in 1990 about problems with the legislation which was struck down by the Supreme Court yesterday. It is that long ago, but the Department never got around to acting on the matter. At the same time, the Department is fighting a diligent...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: He is good at correcting the record at present, so he is in the humour for it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Local Authority Operations: Motion. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the content of the motion, which is yet another in the long list of issues that have made the lives of working families a misery in recent years, the first being the extraordinary price of houses and the second being the extraordinary difficulty of child care. I welcome this debate also because it is further evidence of the fact that this Government is in the process of falling...

Seanad: Local Authority Operations: Motion. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ——and he will not be surprised if I repeat myself slightly here. He will know what I am saying.