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Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I was on strike last Thursday as a member of the staff of CIT. I did this not to benefit myself but because the Government has betrayed the Cork School of Music. It told staff and students to vacate a building to facilitate contractors and that they would have new premises. It then negotiated a contractor into being the sole contractor and is now attempting to back out. If that happened in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I ask the Leader to allow us to debate music education in the two biggest cities in the State in Government time. Both cities are in danger of losing publicly provided music education. That is as close to cultural vandalism as I can imagine a Government can get.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I move:

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: What about pubs?

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: That was a long time ago.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Absolutely.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: They would not be allowed to have small establishments.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: There are already certain things for sale in pubs that cannot be used there.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: It is particularly good to have had a full two hour debate. I thought at one stage that we would not but it has been shown that Members take this issue very seriously. I wish to quote from the executive summary of the Health and Safety Authority on tobacco control. It concludes that environmental tobacco smoke is carcinogenic and causes lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory problems in...

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Tourism is New York's second largest industry and surviving a ban which will in the short term give rise to a problem. Somebody said the Luxembourgers drink more than we do. They may but one will not find the scenes of appalling disorder on the streets of Luxembourg on a Saturday night that one finds here. It is our form of drinking that is becoming a problem. We will have to deal with this....

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I can see only two references. I would like to withdraw the reference to "immediate" in the phrase, "demands that the Minister for Health and Children implement an immediate ban on smoking in licensed premises". There is a second reference to "immediate" later on, but that does not make any difference.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: No, but I will withdraw, quite happily, the word "immediate" in the three places it is used in our motion.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: No, we are being reasonable.

Seanad: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption: Motion. (7 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I will put before the House the motion with the word "immediate" deleted in the three places it is used.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: We have had various requests over some time for a debate on competitiveness, as well as comments about public servants and public service benchmarking. We ought to have that debate, because virtually all the media people who criticise benchmarking are paid a hell of a lot better than 95% of the public servants they criticise. They have managed to benchmark themselves during the great boom...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: That is a very difficult thing to do.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise. The second thing is that benchmarking was entered into because the same people who are now criticising it took great exception to the old concept of relativities in the public service and wanted something based on private sector practice. The problem was that the private sector demanded that all the records of the benchmarking body be destroyed, so we do not know how that body...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (8 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I share a sense of frustration and feel the need to restrain my language at a time like this. Such a feeling is common to everyone and it was evident in the Minister's contribution. The Irish and British Governments made heroic efforts in this area and I do not want it suggested that any comments I make are bit meant to be party political. That is not the case; they are simply reflections...