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Seanad: Competition Authority Report: Statements. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should be worried. Everybody who applies the power of reason inevitably ends up on the left, because that is the only rational place to be. The Senator was too gentle on the question of collusion. We all remember the change in mortgage interest rates when the Bank of Scotland arrived here. I do not believe the chief executives of the banks and building societies telephoned each...

Seanad: Competition Authority Report: Statements. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not believe in any of these laws but in deference to the clock, I will cease.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I second the motion. I thank Fine Gael for asking my party to support this motion which it does enthusiastically. Fine Gael and the Labour Party do not agree about everything and sometimes we disagree quite strongly, but it appears we have an instinctive sense of what is decent in politics that the biggest party in the State has lost. We would make mistakes if we were in Government; we would...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Making itself accountable for how it gives out money is what it does not like doing. The evidence is there in the amendment tabled by Senator O'Rourke. I would love to see a PD name on this amendment but there is none. This is among one of the most fatuous amendments I have read from the Government side. The last line of the amendment states: "That Seanad Éireann notes the commitment to...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: There are two Bills to pass through this House in the next six months. The first is for electronic voting and the second is for this Fianna Fáil slush fund. The Opposition will fight every comma of these Bills. Together they epitomise what is wrong with Fianna Fáil and its majority Government which is oblivious to what anybody else thinks. Fianna Fáil believes it owns the electoral system,...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The prospect of losing power, and the patronage that goes with it, is the only influence on Fianna Fáil. If it is afraid that inept and sleazy disbursement of other people's money will bounce back and reverberate, then it might change its mind. However, Fianna Fáil now knows its situation is so desperate. Up to 65% of the population has copped on to it and decided whoever its votes for the...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It was the same a year ago.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: By ten degrees or 90 degrees?

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Remember that the Minister, Deputy McCreevy, wants one.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That would happen regardless of what changes are made.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: On December 18, during the holidays.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Will we have problems with the Comptroller and Auditor General?

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is for gathering votes.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Does the Minister of State want a list? One page or two?

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It sounded like it.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ADM is not good enough. Fianna Fáil is better.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We are entitled to know why there is such urgency with the Civil Registration Bill.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Cabinet has nothing to do with Seanad Éireann.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Before the question is put, this House must agree to an amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not wish to repeat what my two colleagues said, except to make one further point. One of the reasons there is such controversy is precisely the point some people use for arguing in favour of electronic voting. We have an incredible level of computer software expertise in this country. It is from some of that computer software expertise that most of the questions arise and most of the...