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Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Morrissey does not need to worry that he will be accused of being a socialist.

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire, duine i measc na hAirí Stáit atá tar éis a rá le gairid go bhfuil sé ar an eite clé, mar aon leis an Taoiseach. Cosúil leis an Teachta Joe Higgins, tá mé agbrath go bhfuil an spás in a bhfuilim beagáinín plódaithe le daoine atá ag iarraidh——

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: One of the remarkable developments in civilised western societies has been the extraordinary consensus that one cannot leave people who move beyond working age to fend for themselves according to some law of the jungle. According to my often faulty memory, it has been 150 years since Bismarck introduced the idea of an old-age pension and 100 years since it was first conceived of here....

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements (Resumed). (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I am severely tempted to comment on what Senator Brian Hayes has said but if I did the Chair would remind me to speak on the topic under discussion. Like any lay person I do not possess the analytical or the actuarial skills to look 40 years into the future. We have to do our best to forecast what will happen. I read an article in the Irish Banking Review a few years ago about the pensions...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Iman al-Hams, a young Palestinian was murdered by the Israeli defence forces in October. The Israeli authorities exonerated the army officer whose own troops saw him shoot the child. There is a transcript of the radio conversations taking place when that happened which demonstrates quite clearly that this was deliberate, cold-blooded murder. If a Palestinian had done it we would quite rightly...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The world, however, stands back in silence when a terrified child running away from one of the most powerful defence forces in the world is murdered in cold blood because the perpetrator is a country with which we have, at best, an ambiguous relationship. I again appeal to our Department of Foreign Affairs to raise the issue of Iman al-Hams with the Israeli Embassy. It is a crime worthy of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I move an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the first item we should discuss is the Government's reneging on its pledge to meet the UN target on overseas development aid by 2007. The Estimates may provide a blanket to cover this issue. This is not just a question of abandoning the poor of the world but how the world sees a Government which feels free to make solemn pledges at a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Can the Senator trust him?

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: If I said what Labour Party supporters think, I would have to withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Is this a speech?

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is obviously more popular with the Labour Party than with Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Yes.

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I should not be here tonight, and we should not be debating this motion. We should have learned from the past 40 years that public concern is a remarkably effective way of finding out what one might be well advised to avoid. I was a young person still at school when the ESB decided to knock down a large part of Fitzwilliam Street's Georgian heritage. I was an obstreperous student in college...

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: All of us support the construction of motorways. A number of people in the Dublin-based element of the Green Party may not want a good road network but many Members and I have discussed this issue formally and informally. The country desperately needs a good transport infrastructure but desperate need does not justify short-term and destructive decisions. The NRA's response that the new road...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We are almost at the stage where we do not notice the broken promises. A solemn promise to the United Nations was broken last week and a promise made in the Dáil on decentralisation was broken this week. The credibility of the Department of Finance is now at issue because we were assured that decentralisation would be self-financing, which it will be in 25 years time. According to the body...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It was entirely coincidental, it just happened to be the place that perfectly suited. The advisory committee on development co-operation and all the NGOs dealing with it opposes the decision, which appears to be going ahead, to move Development Co-operation Ireland to Limerick. We know what the Government thinks of the lobbying of NGOs; they should stop doing it and should be prevented from...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise. I should never have called him a boy because boys are better than that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I withdraw it. I apologise.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I am sorry, a Chathaoirligh. On occasion I heard things said in this House about Members of my party from the other House which were not withdrawn but because I am not the sensitive, touchy person others appear to be I did not mind. The Cathaoirleach is in charge and I fully accept his ruling.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: In the spirit of this House I withdraw it unequivocally because that is the way I have always done my business in this House. Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter of the parents of Irish-born children. As he said there are 11,000 such children. The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform does not know how many parents of children in the State, who are citizens by birth, are illegally...