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Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: One cannot beat State enterprise.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is not true. The Senator should listen carefully.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The signs should all be electrified.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I will tell the Leader later.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is the second time the Leader has mentioned St. Valentine's Day.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is a shame. They are all gone.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Ar dtús báire, caithfidh mé ceist a chur don gCeannaire faoin dtairiscint faoi toghchán d'Údarás na Gaeltachta. Ar pléadh an tairiscint seo áit ar bith nó an bhfuilimid chun glacadh leis gan díospóireacht? Has it been discussed anywhere? If it has not been discussed at the appropriate committee, it is very bad parliamentary practice to have a motion on a democratic election before...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Only one movement does not accept equality as the basis of living. A republican does not shoot people because he or she disagrees with them. If I want an example of true republicanism, I point no further than the McCartney sisters.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: People have the right to use the police service to have their brother's murderers arrested, prosecuted and hopefully convicted. No political cause is so sacred that people like that can be protected. Anybody who protects someone like that is not a republican. That needs to said categorically here. I understand that we are in favour of the EU ending its embargo on the sale of arms to China. I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In light of recent events, I do not think that any eminent trade unionist should talk too much about guilt by association. This morning's newspaper contains the astonishing news that the finance company which was at the centre of last week's controversy is entirely unregulated. It is not subject to regulation by IFSRA, even though the committee chaired by the current Minister for Justice,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is an even bigger jump.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Norris and I have agreed for a long time about this.

Seanad: Nursing Home Charges: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State. He is from the same part of the country as I am. I will be careful and declare an interest. My mother has been for about two years a resident in a public hospital for elderly people in Athy, where she receives care that can only be described as superb. I am personally more than a little uncomfortable at the prospect of a substantial sum of money which I had no...

Seanad: Nursing Home Charges: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am quoting from the report on nursing home subventions, An Investigation by the Ombudsman of Complaints regarding Payment of Nursing Home Subventions by Health Boards. I apologise for not giving the name of the report. It was an omission on my part. I will quote further from the report because there is a point which needs to be made. In the last paragraph on page 68 the Ombudsman states...

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator nearly forgot the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Employment Policy: Motion. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Do not mention it.