Results 2,561-2,580 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

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

Brendan Ryan: She did.

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

Brendan Ryan: Sections 14 to 16, inclusive, do not provide for somebody who can represent unorganised workers. Anybody working in agriculture is free to join a representative body and every employer is equally free to join IBEC. However, a significant number of people in this country are effectively being prevented by their employers from joining trade unions. A study carried out by UCD suggests that 70%...

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

Brendan Ryan: With regard to subsection (3)(a), I am somewhat disappointed that no legislative statement has been made on the appropriate proportion of Deputies and Senators. It would appear that the normal proportion is ten and five, respectively, but apparently the proportion could be 14 and one if the Taoiseach so wished. I do not know the current proportion but I presume that every joint Oireachtas...

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

Brendan Ryan: I was never asked.

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

Brendan Ryan: I was never asked.

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

Brendan Ryan: I have only a small problem, that the House ordered that the debate would finish now. I am happy to report progress. I am a stickler for procedure, contrary to what people think.

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

Brendan Ryan: I never said it was. I move that we report progress.

Seanad: Public Hospital Land: Motion. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State, although he may not welcome what I have to say. The Civil Service, and particularly the Department of Finance, is awash with accountants whose function is to account for money. There is not a single qualified project manager working in the Civil Service. Most people would not know that there is such a qualification but hundreds of young people train as project...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Through what forum will the Attorney General be invited to explain what happened in his office in the period leading to the events that transfixed the nation last week and the week before last? Those with political accountability will have to submit themselves to questioning in these Houses. There seems to be a blanket of silence descending around the Office of the Attorney General which has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am most assuredly looking for an urgent debate on the report. which is now being made public. about our complicity in extraordinary rendition of people who ended up being tortured.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We know who——

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not show that to me.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Senator McCarthy will move the motion. There is a Government amendment to the motion but I am unaware of any supplementary Order Paper to that effect.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Must not a supplementary Order Paper be made by the order of the House rather than just be circulated?

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Can the Government change the Order of Business at any time and circulate a document without formally notifying the House?

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is a figure of 2,900 out of 81,000.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We will sort out Fine Gael while the Minister of State sorts out the housing crisis. He need not worry about the distraction.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State is starting again.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We do not turn up in the tent at the Galway races.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not blame the Minister of State for everything done by Fianna Fáil councillors.