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Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I can write them all outside the House, anyway. It is an extraordinary fact that in here where I have privilege I cannot say the words that I have said frequently and in debate with this individual outside the House. However, I repeat that politics were demeaned in Cork by one individual in particular, who Fianna Fáil opinion polls showed was at the bottom of their three-candidate league...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is not sour grapes. The Senator should consult his own constituency colleague. Fianna Fáil private polls show that this man jumped from the bottom of the polls to the top.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Taoiseach made this man Chairman of an Oireachtas committee. Whatever the innocence of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform — God help me, after all the years I do not believe he is intent on using race — not for the first time since going into Government with Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats has been conned into a position which it must now defend. If we have a...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That Deputy signed up as well.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: While I do not want to refer to the particular report in any detail, it is a model of how the Oireachtas can deal with a difficult and controversial issue and establish a consensus view. Another difficult issue has now been presented to us, which could still be addressed by that process.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We could solve a problem, if it exists, by a process of consensus and agreement, which would eliminate the risk so eloquently described by Senator Minihan last night of a debate degenerating into something most unpleasant and untoward. We could still refer the question of a proper definition of citizenship to the same committee that was able to deal expeditiously and efficiently with the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have not shifted all my life; it is Fianna Fáil that moved. In the process of rediscovering itself, perhaps it could look at the other 15 cuts and in particular, given the daft notions that emanate from the Minister for Education and Science occasionally, it could look at the back to education allowance and its effective destruction as an encouragement to those from underprivileged...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Leyden should sit down.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Leyden should sit down.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: When it is proposed to guillotine a Bill, a motion to that effect should appear on the Order Paper rather than assuming that because the Bill is due to finish at 4 p.m., a plethora of matters that are not written down come into play. Since I was first elected to this House I have attended a considerable number of constitutional amendment debates. I do not recall any contentious ones having...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That is grossly offensive. It is a classic symptom of the way in which this business has been handled by the Government from the very beginning. The Government is contemptuous of the Houses of the Oireachtas and of its own programme for Government, which stated that there would be consultations with all parties on the matter. An appallingly researched document produced in the dead of night on...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is bonded labour. She has no rights.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Maybe we differ about what are fundamental rights.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Why does the Minister not name him?

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It panders to racism.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: If I am named, I will defend myself.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I will have 15 minutes, while the Minister has an hour.