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Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The blood transfusion service is still finding a few people who are infected every year. On the diagnosis, separate from the tests, it concerns rhesus negative women who had a baby whose father was rhesus positive. In time, they can also have a raised ALT level, joint pain and so forth. This is not a large amorphous group. It is a group who are within a clearly defined at-risk category who...

Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As I said on Second Stage, the extraordinary aspect of this Bill is that the Government managed to turn what should have been good news into a highly political issue. It is matter for political scientists to discover how this was done. I compliment the Government on the breadth of section 2. The willingness to take into account non-marital, including same-sex, relationships is a brave step....

Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As I said on Committee Stage, this should have been a good news Bill which would have seen us trying to persuade the Government to be even more generous. Instead it has, in both Houses, shown a mistaken judgment by the Government that sought to introduce scientific clarity in a naive way. I do not believe science is as developed as that. If one believes in science one believes in the...

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: While I am not sure I welcome the Bill, I am not prepared to fly in the face of reality. Senator O'Toole correctly spoke about mutuality, co-operation and so on. It is a pity that people insist on using incomplete criteria to judge the significant benefits of genuinely mutual organisations and the co-operative movement in general. My good friend, Senator Ross, stated that he did not know how...

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They have a lot of money.

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The chief executive of the HSE was deemed worthy of a bonus.

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They all think they are wonderful so they give each other bonuses.

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The tax breaks should be on the rent.

Seanad: Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: When they lose they come looking for Government support.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We in the Labour Party would also like to convey our good wishes to the garda who was injured while bravely upholding both the principle of a society governed by law and the right of ordinary people to live in it without fear. I wish him a speedy recovery. It should be remembered that for all the occasional and perhaps more than occasional critiques, we have a police force which has managed...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps she could explain precisely what is the Government's plan. So far we have seen doctor-only medical cards which our foolish citizenry do not see the merits of, in spite of continual attempts by the Minister for Health and Children to demonstrate that they are a great idea. Either our citizens can see that they are of no benefit or they cannot. I would like to know about the much...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Has everybody?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is he retiring?

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am sure the Minister of State got over it.

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, ó mo chontae dhúchais féin, fear a bhfuil an-mheas agam air. I join with those who expressed sympathy and regret at the loss of Mr. Power, whom I did not know but who obviously had made a considerable impression. I wish to pay an unqualified tribute to my constituency colleague and fellow resident of Cork, on a very brave decision which pitted him...

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will not go into too much detail. Smoking has never been a vice that I could see the point of. I can see the point of every other vice. If smoking was not addictive, people would give it up very quickly because I do not believe it gives any great long-term satisfaction. It is something people start and they then become addicted and cannot give up. By the time they realise it is doing...

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There is a degree of mystery about the extraordinary ineptitude of the present regime, in its two manifestations from 1997 to today, in dealing with broadband. As I just told Senator Ross, this is one issue for which it cannot blame anybody else. No preliminary work was required. In 1997, at a time when nobody here knew much about broadband, it was being discussed in some of the chattier...

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It was a figure of speech. The Senator should not play games.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This is a serious debate.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: All the statistics are little because everything about this is little.