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Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is difficult to satisfy me.

Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: No. I would call a vote but I will not embarrass the Members opposite.

Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Amendment No. 21 is not a minor amendment. As it stands, it is the executive of the body that would make arrangements with suitable persons. It is as well "The Health Service Executive" was inserted instead of "The Executive". I have no problem with that.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Second Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá súil agam go mbainfidh sé taitneamh as an díospóireacht. B'fhéidir go ndéarfaí rud éigin fiúntach, cé go bhfuil sé déanach san oíche. Among the more embarrassing records of this country is its level of child poverty. We were at the bottom of the table ten or 12 years ago when we were a poor country and we are still at the bottom of the table...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: In the past five years, the Opposition and the Leader have managed to work effectively through the business of the House by agreement. If a Minister cannot be present and we accept the bona fides of his or her reason for that, it is easy to ask the leaders of the Opposition groups to agree to reschedule a Bill, especially if no qualified Minister of State is available.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The legislation being discussed yesterday has nothing much to do with increasing social welfare payments but incorporates the most extraordinary proposal I have seen in many years. This will institutionalise social segregation by saying that rent supplement cannot be paid for housing in development areas.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Yes, that is in the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: In regeneration areas.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There was no Minister to hear it. That is my point.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That puts a snob's charter into legislation. Developers can advertise there will be no "grotties", so to speak, in the development and people can afford to invest.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Fianna Fáil should be ashamed of itself. I would like to say that to the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We did not oppose it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise through the Chair to the Fianna Fáil Members for provoking them.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise but sometimes they upset me. I call for a debate on the creeping privatisation of public services, for example, psychological services for schools in Dublin. I discovered yesterday that some schools are given money and told to buy the service and their allocation of psychological support is withdrawn. That is privatisation. What is happening on the grounds of public hospitals...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We should also urgently debate the housing market because there are signs of a problem. I heard yesterday that 75% of people living in apartments do not like living in apartments.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise if I have behaved in a disorderly fashion in the least way. I did not intend to do so. There is a serious issue about the housing market, the fact that it is not matching people's aspirations and that although it is failing, it appears as if the whole market is in trouble. Those issues deserve to be debated and I ask the Leader to organise the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Government does not know how to be ashamed.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Landlords will be allowed to refuse tenants on supplementary welfare.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Let them know what Fianna Fáil thinks of them.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Committee Stage (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is far too long ago to go into when I was elected to this House first but in those days, I was particularly concerned about homeless people. We had a reasonably broad definition of "homeless", which was people who were unable to provide accommodation for themselves of a suitable standard or those who were living in shelters, hostels and such places. We came up against a wall of...