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Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ——I would have my doubts about the quality of the governance of a country where the Minister responsible for attracting foreign investment only looked after the areas the people he was responsible for told him about.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: On No. 1 on today's Order Paper, it emerged on "Morning Ireland" earlier that the mysterious missing file is no longer missing and the Minister for Foreign Affairs said he had no doubt that the material would be——

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister for Foreign Affairs said this material would be made available to the Oireachtas. If it is available can we have it before the debate? Why should we have to wait until after the debate to have what we are now told is available? Will the Leader ask the Department of Health and Children to make copies of that material available? We will be happy to have photocopies since apparently...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Page 51, paragraph 6.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In the 1970s the German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, resigned because a secretary in his office was found to have been involved in espionage. There was no suggestion he knew, there was no suggestion he could have known and there was no suggestion of wrongdoing on his part. Willy Brandt said he was responsible for what happened in his central office and resigned.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is no evidence the secretary was appointed by Willy Brandt, who made it clear he did nothing wrong but said he should have known and was responsible. It is often difficult to get through to the Government that the position of Minister is one of responsibility. Many people think it is about glory but it is about responsibility, to which I will refer later. The Minister stated the first...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Leaving aside the politics, let us consider the recommendations. When I looked at them on page 93, my jaw dropped. Most of what is recommended about how to run a decent organisation could have been written by a first year student of business studies. Did it really need €2 billion, or at least hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money for the Department to go astray? We do not know...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Growing up as I did in a staunchly Fianna Fáil household in Athy, County Kildare, only eight miles from Stradbally where the O'Higgins were well rooted——

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ——one could not but be aware of the family's place in Irish politics, even if my awareness of its members' immensity was sometimes ascertained through fairly colourful descriptions of them. That was the nature of politics then and is probably still the case. The contribution of that family to Irish politics was immense. Former Senator O'Higgins was one of a family which made an enormous...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is worth noting that not only are the McCartney sisters seeking justice but they have already prevented three murders through their refusal to accept the route offered to them by the Provisional IRA. They have given an example to many through their ability to see the difference between justice and revenge, a distinction some are unable to make. Their behaviour is a salutary lesson to many....

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have not seen a single Irish person deported to conditions anything like those that exist for that 18 year old in Lagos. I do not wish anybody else to undergo such treatment. I am certain on one point. Despite all the disagreements I had with him, the previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Donoghue, would not have taken this action. Notwithstanding his limitations,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It could apply to anybody with 20 years' service.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. To dispose of an issue raised by Senator Quinn, one of the great achievements of a succession of Governments, dating back to the early 1990s or perhaps even further, is that we now have 1.8 million people at work given that perhaps half that number were at work not more than ten years ago. Some of these people were in jobs that seemed to have no future. I...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is very helpful.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is usually telling me that my figures are too high. For a change, it is nice to have him tell me they are too low.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The growth in the economy is inherently very good. The problems we have encountered, including those regarding which I take a very different view than the Government, are the problems of success and how we manage it. The success was achieved the hard way. Given all the talk about how the country suddenly took off economically, it is intriguing to note the questions that were asked in this...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not wish to incur Senator O'Toole's wrath by criticising the Garda but it would be useful if the Leader could obtain information from the Minister for Transport about the intensity of road traffic enforcement on those roads identified as giving rise to the greatest number of fatalities. Anecdotal evidence indicates that there is fairly intensive speed limit patrolling on dual...