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

Brendan Ryan: We know he is not up to the job.

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

Brendan Ryan: Rubbish.

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

Brendan Ryan: Where is it?

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

Brendan Ryan: Many people agree with them.

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

Brendan Ryan: I could have a great time if I had 20 minutes but as I have only five minutes I must be very selective. I will ignore all the vulgar abuse about myself and my associations with people in other countries, as well as other related matters. Instead I will concentrate on one or two points. The first is the extraordinary position where every single speaker on the Government side has indicated...

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

Brendan Ryan: I do not think there are fools on the Government side, and I wish there were. It would then be easier to ignore the issue. I believe these are naive people who believe there is some benefit to Ireland from wobbling about fundamental issues when President George Bush wants us to wobble. Our Government has accepted the word of a government which has lied about the fundamental issue when it...

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

Brendan Ryan: It did not.

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

Brendan Ryan: The US Government has never done so. It admitted it transfers prisoners from one place to another but it has never accepted responsibility for any of the cases documented in this report. It has denied they ever happened. There is an innocence on the Government's part because it does not want to get itself into a position of conflict with an obnoxious government in Washington. It decided...

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

Brendan Ryan: It is not extraordinary. There is a resonance between people such as myself and the citizens of the United States who feel exactly the same way I do about a discredited president who told them lies to start a war, who was elected illegally and who has led the country up a most dangerous and destructive cul-de-sac. That is what America represents and what I support. I am not anti-American;...

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

Brendan Ryan: Proinsias de Rossa has a credibility in the European Parliament because he works with discipline with significant groups. Fianna Fáil has been afraid since the elections to become part of a group because it cannot make up its mind on what it stands for. Nobody knows what the party stands for and when it puts forward amendments, nobody votes with it.

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

Brendan Ryan: I had not heard that. There are fundamental tests, the first of which is that the party does not take bribes from builders.

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

Brendan Ryan: I never printed any money.

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

Brendan Ryan: I wish to finish.

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

Brendan Ryan: I wish to go back to the same issue. I have tolerated a fair level of abuse with a reasonable level of good humour.

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

Brendan Ryan: How can I be expected to believe a government which denies the fact of extraordinary rendition when we all know it happened? How can I be expected to accept an assurance about a subsidiary but related issue?

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

Brendan Ryan: So it tells us the truth and it tells everybody else lies, is that it?

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

Brendan Ryan: It lied about it, it has lied over and over again.

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

Brendan Ryan: The US Government, it denied it ever happened.

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

Brendan Ryan: It denied it ever happened. I have no more to say on it. Although it denied it ever happened, every Member of this House knows what happened. People on the Government side accept the word of the US on a subsidiary but related issue because it is the easy option.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I thought Mrs. Lynch was an extraordinarily warm and Christian woman. Her family's circumstances and the way in which she dealt with a terrible trauma in her life has been an example to everybody. She stated she had no problem regarding the prisoner in question receiving whatever he needed if he was suffering in any way. She said she was not seeking vengeance and spoke solely about the...