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Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That is what people used to say about South Africa.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Only a supporter of Mr. George Bush would think that is the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Many people support the United Nations.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Is minic a bhíonn sé linn. Tá mé ag éirí— ní déarfainn amhrasach, ach I begin to wonder if we are too soft on him. He appears to enjoy his time here and, perhaps, we are too gentle with him. In fairness, he is a frequent attender and a lively participant to the debates. I will not say it is necessarily a pleasure but it is worthwhile being here if the...

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not share and do not like to get involved in too much of the Opposition versus the Government popular hysteria about crime and I have not done so in my political career. It is one of the easy issues about which to generate hysteria. As Senator Mansergh correctly said, very often the people who talk about the hysteria, prominent journalists and politicians, are not at the receiving end...

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should not get carried away.

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: How does the Minister know about these things?

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: On the issue of the vast number of matters on the Adjournment, it is time we reopened the debate on whether Members of the House should be able to table parliamentary questions which Ministers could answer in writing. It is a much more efficient procedure than that which forces many of my colleagues to wait perhaps for weeks before they can raise a matter on the Adjournment. That is a matter...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ——in which brutal force was used in many cases to undermine unacceptable democratically elected governments and democratic governments. I wish the United States would fulfil a role in the world that is consistent with its own rhetoric. I wish whoever is elected President of the United States well. The world needs enlightened leadership from that country. My own views on this are fairly...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We certainly have.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should name a few names.

Seanad: Report of National Advisory Committee on Drugs: Statements (Resumed). (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: This is an important issue, although I see it differently from other people. We must focus on where this is a problem and keep a perspective on the general issue of the use of illegal substances. Some communities have been devastated by one particular drug but a significant proportion of our young people are at least occasional users of an entirely different drug. However politically...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I listened with interest to the Minister's speech. There is not much point, however, in rehearsing the history of a member of the minority party in Government who talked about the Ceausescu-style project in Abbotstown. I have always been somewhat ambivalent about these allegedly Ceausescu-type projects. We should have had decent cost estimates, which we rarely have, at the beginning of the...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: With that invitation, let me say that the FAI must be the definition of incompetence in running a sporting organisation. We have had the mystery of how stadia appear and disappear. How many headquarters has soccer had in Cork? At one stage what is now the second GAA pitch was the headquarters of the most prestigious team. It then moved to Turners Cross. Afterwards it moved to what is now the...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I will rewrite my speech.

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hopefully the Minister will be decentralised to Tipperary.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I tend to forget to do that and end up apologising afterwards. It is just my scatter-brained way of doing things. The core of the issue is identified in the Government amendment to the motion that mentions the centres in Dublin. It takes some nerve to say that people in Dublin have, "ready access via a modern road network to high volume purpose-built...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: NCT testing is like speed cameras and clamping for parking offences — they are all good ideas to which no one could sensibly take exception. The truth is, however, that in each case there has been an accumulation of anecdotal evidence of individuals in NCT services or clamping acting in a manner calculated to provoke outrage among the public. I am at a loss to understand why a brand new...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: When I was training to be an engineer many years ago, we were taught that the functions of management were to plan, organise, staff and control. Week after week the Government explains about the breach of yet another commitment regarding pupil-teacher ratios in primary schools. In the richest country in Europe, there are currently 100,000 children being taught in classrooms with in excess of...