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Seanad: Genealogy and Heraldry Bill 2006: Second Stage (12 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: May I reduce my time to seven minutes?

Seanad: Genealogy and Heraldry Bill 2006: Second Stage (12 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise to my colleagues if I do not mention everybody's contribution. It is an inevitable consequence of the brevity of my reply. I do not mean this as a nasty point. Once we got away from the set scripts we had a very good debate arising from which is something that people may not have known, which is how important the issues are. Many people here have views. Whether I or other...

Seanad: Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Professor Roy Foster is not my favourite historian, but his magnificent two-volume biography of William Butler Yeats, one and a half volumes of which I have managed to read, raised in my mind the point raised by Senator Norris. Perhaps the single greatest tribute to both William Butler Yeats and Senator Michael Yeats is that a man of such firmly rooted good sense survived extraordinary...

Seanad: Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: He did indeed.

Seanad: Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am privileged to be able to say I think Seán O'Leary would have been a friend of mine. He was the sort of friend one would like to have, which meant that sometimes he was one's greatest ally and sometimes when he felt that one deserved to be told something else, he was well able to say it in language that was not equivocal. One would never be under any illusion when Seán O'Leary...

Seanad: Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It was Deputy Jim O'Keeffe who suffered at the hands of a very capable and occasionally sharp tongue. Seán O'Leary was an extraordinarily warm man with a strong sense of social justice. Injustice in politics and society annoyed him. The letter to which Senator Ross referred was a manifestation of that genuine sense of unhappiness with injustice. He correctly identified that injustice...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I fully support Senator Brian Hayes's proposal which has been seconded. I would love an hour in which to explain how two parties can put together a collection of intelligent and simple proposals, none of which requires rocket science, to reform the health service. This is something the Government has failed to do for ten years.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is a simple set of proposals put forward by our two parties which has a very simple start by which a plan is made and the resources are then allocated. What the present Government did was to first allocate lots of resources only to discover later that a plan was needed. It is now trying to retrofit a plan to resources. One must think before one starts. It is terrible that so much has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I was listening to the leader of the Labour Party.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to inform Senator Mansergh that I have returned to the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: How does the Leader know that?

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Leader should not mind the press release.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The strategy is to get out of Ireland.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann noting that the members of Seanad Éireann have always condemned the CIA practice of prisoner rendition; remembering that in spite of this, Seanad Éireann declined to set up an inquiry into Irish collusion in such rendition; welcomes the report of the European Parliament committee set up to inquire into European complicity in such rendition; alarmed by the...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Let us not include personalities.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is all on our side.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Just indifference. We do not count and we always accept the apology.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Obviously the Senator got over it.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: He is not the president. Deputy Michael D. Higgins is the president of the Labour Party.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Mooney is wrong.