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Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Social democracy is coming out in Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He should withdraw that.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He must unequivocally withdraw that, or he will get no peace from me today.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They were switched off.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I know where this is going.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Deputy Leader should visit the River Lee on a fine summer's evening.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann, —alarmed at the growing crisis in accident and emergency services throughout the State, —noting that, by the admission of the Minister for Health and Children, over €400 million worth of new hospital facilities are lying idle because of Government failure to provide funding for equipment and staffing and —noting that sufficient funds are available to the...

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Government got a knee-jerk reaction three weeks ago.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We generated the boom.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That is what the Minister for Finance is saying.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should not equate Deputy McCreevy with the nation.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They could be opened tomorrow if they were properly funded. Many of them would be opened by now were it not for the health cuts in 2002.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Is the OECD making up its figures?

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They are facing similar pressures. They are not the same. There are no waiting lists in some health systems.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is affected by ministerial ideology as well, particularly the daft ideology of the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister's party was in control in the 1980s.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should not overestimate his contribution.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Government was closing hospitals.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He did not close any hospitals.