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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Which Government allowed below cost selling? I believe it was the current Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I hope to persist in the positive and non-confrontational tone of my colleague. All of us now accept the reality of climate change. Let us not ignore the extraordinarily intense rearguard action, which still continues and which was manifested on Channel 4 a few weeks back, of pseudo-science by pseudo-scientists and a pseudo-director who has a reputation for enjoying the fact he says the...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Probably. There is no doubt there are extraordinary vested interests in many areas. I am concerned that unless the Government — any Government — has an absolute conviction that this is a reality and that it will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on how we and the planet live over the next 50 years, there will not be the political will to do what is necessary. What I hope was one of...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: If the Government deserves credit for anything, it is that it perhaps sustained the boom, but it did not create it because it was well under way, and that is a fact. However, because it was a boom and did not represent the things Governments in Ireland used to have to worry about, the Government stopped worrying. It did not look at the new issues and the new ideas, one of which, already...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Correct. Approximately 28% of our greenhouse gas emissions emanate from agriculture. If we are determined to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the contributions of different sectors to both the economy and our greenhouse gas emissions, we must face up to and deal with the part played by agriculture. There is a sense that agriculture is benign and that it involves green fields, etc. The...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is confidence.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That would be typical of The Hist.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Whatever about the Defamation Bill enduring a de facto filibuster with Government complicity, no one could accuse the Government of delaying on the Pharmacy Bill. It is the fault of no one in this House or the building — I am not criticising any staff — that the final list of amendments in yellow form arrived in the House between 9 a.m. and 9.45 a.m. It was the first time Senators had a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is an institutional abuse. Will the Leader raise the matter with the Ceann Comhairle? The other House should be informed that it has no right to order business before this House has disposed of it. We do not do so as a matter of practice. This morning's Irish Examiner has as harrowing a front page as I have ever seen. It is a half-page reproduction of the last note of a young man who...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have great respect and affection for the Minister for Health and Children but to be presented with 97 amendments at 9.30 a.m. today is not fair. Again, I do not blame anyone in particular; it is simply the way it is being done. To be presented with the groups of amendments at 12.30 p.m. today is not fair either. This House does its best to deal with legislation, particularly that...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Some of the amendments that are at the core of what the Minister just mentioned when she very graciously dealt with our complaints, which I will not pursue any further, are hugely significant. I am not sure this is the wisest way to discuss amendments Nos. 61 and 62, in particular, both of which are two pages long. We will ramble all over the place with all these amendments being discussed...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: While I am uneasy about it, I will agree that the group of amendments be taken together. Taking those two amendments separate from the others is impossible as well. We need to be careful.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister has my sympathies if she received the list of amendments as late as the rest of us. It will be possible to have a pharmacy in the same premises as a medical practice but not with the same entrance. I am concerned not about medical aspects but about competition aspects. If one has a medical centre with a pharmacy in a country town, does its sheer accessibility not immediately...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We must stop one at the next general election.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: He does not look hungry to me.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Before we move from this amendment, I look for clarification. I accept the Minister's comments on commercial rent, but can the provision be evaded by an arrangement prior to taking up occupancy via key money? The going rate for rent will be charged.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is difficult enough, but can the provision be got around with a demand for a substantial key money payment in advance of taking over the premises?

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Will it?