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Seanad: Recognition of the Irish Language: Motion. (21 Jan 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Caithfear a bheith cúramach nuair a moltar rún i gceachtar Teach den Oireachtas go bhfuil ainmneacha ceannairí na ngrúpaí go léir curtha leis. Ar an ocáid seo, glacaim go bhfuil muid go léir i ndáiríre agus nach bhfuil gníomhaíocht ciniciúil i gceist mar gheall ar na hainmneacha atá leis an rún. Aithním ón chleachtadh atá agam leo agus ón mhéid oibre agus an méid atá...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I agree totally with Senator Brian Hayes's point regarding electronic voting systems. If Members opposite are interested, I will show them the websites where they can read reports on failures of the new electronic voting systems used in the United States since the last presidential election. There is documented evidence in this regard. Unless one knows nothing about computers, one knows they...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: This is a case of running away from people. There was sufficient money saved in January to cover the 16 savage cuts in social welfare introduced by the Minister, Deputy Coughlan. Last January alone would have paid for them. An assault on the poor is being carried out to win an election. I agree with Senator O'Toole about the prisons. It is an absolute disgrace that Fintan Lane was in jail for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister can get here quickly enough when he wants to.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I asked that they be reversed.

Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Quite right.

Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is good that the Taoiseach apologised. However, he apologised on behalf of the State and everyone within it. We were all, therefore, encompassed by his apology. To claim that the apology was made on behalf of the Government is to undermine its significance. Before we made our first communion, we were informed that saying one was sorry without being prepared to take the necessary steps was...

Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ——I would inquire as to why a huge legal bill would not be in the interests of the survivors, particularly if it was necessary to allow them to be heard. Why do we discuss matters of this nature when it comes to the most vulnerable? When the National Roads Authority struck a deal with farmers to compensate them for their land, nobody said that we could not do so because of the enormous...

Seanad: Israel-Palestine: Motion. (4 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I want to be entirely constructive for a number of reasons, first, because this motion is of such importance nobody should play politics with it in any way, and I would not dream of doing that, and, second, I have considerable regard for the Minister's efforts in this area and am aware of the considerable influence he has, at least for the next six months in particular. I hope an attempt will...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I would love to get into a competition about who's constituent John Hume is.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not have the Catholics half as well tied up as Senator Norris has the Anglicans.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not have the prominence in my Church that Senator Norris has in his.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: On a far more serious note, I agree with Senator O'Toole. My experience of that particular Department concerns two successive years in the 1980s when an educational tour to Ireland by a secondary school in Britain was almost disrupted because two of the 15 year old pupils were refused visitors' visas to come here by the Department of Justice. They were 15 year old Asians who were coming here...

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Mooney made the interesting point that there is only a finite number of young people involved in sport. That is a good point on which to begin a debate. In terms of the public good, public health and so forth, the first priority of a national sports policy ought to be to maximise participation, rather than to maximise achievement. It was taken for granted when I was of...

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have said nicer things about this Minister of State than about most other Ministers because of his considerable work on the European brief. The Minister should not spoil his good record. I agree with Senator Mooney about false dichotomies. Some Members of the Opposition are too quick to make them by asking why all this money should be spent on a stadium when there is this or that other...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I support my colleagues. As the spouse of a psychiatrist, from nothing other than listening I am aware of how difficult it is to make a diagnosis in the area of psychiatric illness. The suggestion that immigration officers at our ports would suddenly discover a competence that professional psychiatrists do not have to diagnose psychiatric illness is a commentary on the Department of Justice,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: How can we have an earlier signature motion for a Bill whose precise date of passing we do not yet know? I understood earlier signature motions were taken where there was genuine urgency. We do not know when this Bill will be passed and yet we already have an earlier signature motion. Are we to take it that earlier signature is becoming the routine practice of this House?

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I know it is not to be taken and the Leader did not mention it on the Order of Business. Why is an earlier signature motion on the Order Paper when we do not know when the Bill to which it refers will be passed? Who is playing games with us? Níl fhios agam cén fáth nach mbeidh ráiteasaí sa Tigh faoin Choimisinéir Teanga. Duine ana thábhachtach é i gcursaí riaracháin na tíre. Níl...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: For the benefit of Senators from Trinity College who have a problem with our first language, I said that we should have brief statements on the appointment of the Language Commissioner. Will the Leader arrange for a debate on the Revenue Commissioners? Twice in the past ten days, they have announced they will not prosecute anybody for breaches of the tax amnesty because they cannot get enough...

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We sorted it out.