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

Brendan Ryan: Romania is outside the EU.

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

Brendan Ryan: Estonia offers a zero tax rate.

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

Brendan Ryan: Without high German taxes to pay for our grants.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I agree that the extraordinary role of the sisters of Mr. Robert McCartney will reverberate through the peace process in future. I hope a rapid outcome will be reached which will keep them happy. What they have done has changed the perception of many. Their role has opened our eyes and changed the view of the world on what is really happening in the name of defending communities. This matter...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is welcome to the Labour Party. That has been our policy for years.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am going.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is tempting at this stage of a debate to proceed to beat the Government over the head and I am as good as anybody in that regard. It is good fun, but I would like to be somewhat more reflective on this occasion. I wonder about the universality of the welfare system. It is no longer universal because those without Irish connections who have lived here for less than three years are not...

Seanad: Totalisator (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I originally come from south Kildare gambling territory and grew up with an interest in horses and backing them. I have no puritanical inheritance about one of the great joys of Irish life. However, I have puritanical views on access to modern cinema, which is in many cases restricted to people over 18 years, and alcohol, which by consensus is also restricted to people over 18 years. Until...

Seanad: Totalisator (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is always nice to be missed. While I was absent from the Seanad for five years, no one really missed me.

Seanad: Totalisator (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The alternative to a liberal and open regime on alcohol or gambling is one of protecting people when they cannot handle them. I am not being patronising but society must prevent commercial forces from stealing people's childhood ahead of time. This is distinct from protecting young people from alcohol, drugs, sex or gambling. There is a commercially driven tendency to reduce the term of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that there is to be a debate tomorrow regarding the Department of Health and Children. However, can the Leader ask whoever is responsible — I am not sure if it is the Taoiseach — to ensure that every Department now checks that there are no files floating around advising it that current practices are unconstitutional or otherwise illegal? We can debate the specific issue...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is why I said what I said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I said something similar to what Senator Finucane has just said and the presenter of the programme said that was pomposity and a rant. I want to record that if it is pomposity to make it clear that killing other people is murder, that justification of the killing of other people is appallingly wrong and that sitting in a radio studio and allowing people to justify the murdering of other...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: If to make a strong and passionate speech about it is to rant, then I am quite happy to rant. We saw yesterday what I was talking about last Thursday night — people who have no morality, no politics, no understanding of justice or law and who have revealed themselves to be precisely what they are, namely, murderous thugs. Whether they are elected to Dáil Éireann or not, when they are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minster did not provide the money.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He did not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He did not provide the amount that was recommended.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That community would hardly reject an increase.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Is it like the ATMs?

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not know the views of other Members of the House but if I was the chief executive of a multinational company thinking about investing in Ireland and was presented with a Minister who said he did not ask questions about the possible debt of €2 billion in his Department because nobody told him about it——