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Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It knows more about making hay than it does about broadband.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They cannot use it in many cases.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Shareholders benefitted, infrastructure did not.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Re-nationalise it, buy it back.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: A motorway that turns into a dirt track.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Who gave it that monopoly?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I invite the Leader to elaborate on her intriguing remarks at the end of yesterday's Order of Business in regard to the source of the leak which has transfixed the nation for the past week or so.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No, I am not.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As some Members will be aware, following the somewhat traumatic loss of my seat from this House in 1993 I was offered financial support by a very successful businessman, a friend of mine, who offered to pay for a court case which I was at the time contemplating. He then offered to pay the cost of my next election campaign. I had the wit to say "No" to him at a time when I was only a very...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: If I sought favours people would immediately suspect there was something wrong. Nevertheless, I am glad I had my wits about me at the time. Níl mé chun aon rud a rá faoi logainmneacha bailte beaga san iar-dheisceart.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is trua go raibh an t-am ag an Seanadóir O'Toole. Bhí mise chun a rá nár luadh an cheist liom i mí a chaith mé sa cheanntar le linn an tsamhraidh. Bhí a lán rudaí níos tábhachtaí le plé ag muintir an ceanntair ná logainm an bhaile bheag. Tá brón orm, ní luafaidh mé a thuilleadh é, tá mé fed up ar fad leis. During the Ryder Cup, which was a glorious success, although I...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Universities Act imposes all sorts of responsibilities on universities and is restrictive in terms of the right to the title "university". I am, therefore, entitled to wonder if those granted that privilege by way of legislation enacted by the Houses of the Oireachtas are meeting the required standards. The conferring of honorary degrees in the presence of a major benefactor of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Brian Hayes asked earlier that the Minister of Transport be invited to the House. Perhaps when he is here he will deal with enforcement of safety equipment requirements for airlines registered in Ireland. Following the recent tragedy on board an aircraft owned by the biggest airline operating out of Ireland, a doctor and two nurses spoke of the unavailability of rudimentary first...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Government gave the builders a dig-out.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Ní raibh mé ciúin in aon chor.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Leader going to tell us anything else?

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This issue is of such considerable importance to so many people that the Labour Party will forgive the Minister of State for trying to steal its thunder by publishing the White Paper during its two-day conference in Cork.

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We will, however, have greater difficulty forgiving the junior partners in Government for holding their conference on one of the days to which I refer and thereby distracting attention from our deliberations. We will not fall out on this issue. I wish to begin by apologising to the Minister of State. On his initial appointment and for the fun of it, I made a few less than flattering...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh an díospóireacht seo. As putative leader of the Labour group — in the Labour Party every leader is putative — Senator Tuffy has been asking me for months to facilitate a debate on this motion.