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

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is well able to do that. There was a debate on this matter in the other House on 22 and 23 November last during which members of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, my party, the Green Party, Sinn Féin and the Independents spoke. No Progressive Democrats Member spoke in the debate but they voted against the motion. Not only did they not have this deeply found concern then, they did not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not disagree with a word Senator O'Toole has said, except to add that while it is extremely important that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should come to the House to explain the situation, it is more important that something be done immediately to protect our children. It is important to separate the issue of the protection of our children from the more complicated...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was here too when amendments to the Offences against the State Act were rushed through both Houses in hours because an individual was suspected of having hot money. I do not understand why the limited amending legislation to deal specifically with the issue raised by the Supreme Court could not have been passed through the Houses of the Oireachtas by now. Therefore, I appeal to the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should be ashamed to mention his name.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should consider what Mr. A admitted to.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: When Larry Goodman was in trouble, the Government had no difficulty in bailing him out.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I moved an amendment to the Order of Business that the motion be taken. The Chair did not rule——

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Chair should rule on the material in the motion and not on my amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was being courteous by providing a written copy of the motion.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It should surely be the position that we would decide to amend the Order of Business, at which stage the Chair would rule the motion was out of order rather than rule on something that is not properly before the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that but I want to record my dismay.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This section dealing with expenses is a standard provision included in every Bill but it usually refers to a Minister. The normal wording of such a section is "The expenses incurred by the Minister ... shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance...". The requirement that sanction for expenses incurred by the Taoiseach must be approved by a Minister whom the...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is not standard for the reference to be to the Taoiseach.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I do not want to delay the House unnecessarily but this is not a standard provision in terms of applying to the Taoiseach. We are dealing with a different position in this Bill. The Taoiseach is the boss. He or she is the one who appoints and who can, without any reason, sack the Minister for Finance. There is the absolute right of a Taoiseach to seek a Minister's resignation. The Taoiseach...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I support everything Senator Brian Hayes said except his remarks on benchmarking on which we have a long recorded difference. The fundamental problem with benchmarking was that many of the participants in the private sector demanded that all the records be destroyed because they did not want what they regarded as confidential information about wages to enter the public domain. Senator Brian...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We do not mind if the Government falls.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It would suit us, given the present state of the opinion polls.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Since the issue of the value of social partnership has been raised, I am sick of the way in which vested interest economists selectively pick small items and state they would have been achieved without social partnership. Social partnership stabilised this country in the period between 1987 and 1989. Whatever might have been asserted subsequently about wage agreements and other matters,...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As we are not allowed to use PowerPoint, we cannot do them here.