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Seanad: West Link Toll Bridge: Motion. (23 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister in his script mentions penalties if the criteria are not met. It would be lovely to know what the criteria will be for future tolls. Will it be a five minute, ten minute or 20 minute delay? What we do know is that in the famous all-Ireland final in which there were two Ulster counties, there was a queue of traffic endeavouring to come on to the new motorway at the Drogheda bypass...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (24 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Is beag eile atá le rá faoi Pól Ó Foighil, ach caithfidh mé a rá gur baineadh an-gheit asam nuair a chuala mé go raibh sé imithe uainn, cosúil le gach éinne. An-gheit eile a baineadh asam ná nuair a fuair mé amach na blianta a bhí curtha siar aige. Bhí sé dochreidte domsa go raibh sé i lár na 70s mar bhí an oiread sin fuinnimh aige agus bhí sé chomh gníomhach is a bhí...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I admire, without qualification, the courage and humanity of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He did something many Ministers I have known would never have had the bottle, capacity or confidence to do. I will be nothing other than fulsome and vigorous in saying the Minister did the right thing, graciously and well. I hope the young man in question will benefit from the extra...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There was a long discussion on radio this morning on the Health and Safety Authority's review of safety in accident and emergency departments. As a sometimes engineer who endeavours to teach people the rudiments of safety, it is shocking to find that a large number of accident and emergency units have been reported to the fire service for rudimentary failures such as blocking emergency...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The matter on the Order Paper relates to accident and emergency services but this is a matter capable of being remedied instantaneously by good management. I do not believe there is an overnight solution to accident and emergency because of the eight years of neglect it has suffered. I was in Nairobi last week at a conference on peace in the Great Lakes region and I tried to be helpful, which...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have no particular hang-up, based on daft ideological grounds, about the ownership of airports and other facilities, nor do I have an ideological hang-up that competition always produces better services. The example of the health care system in the United States should calm all those who get too carried away with ideology. The US spends between 14% and 15% of gross domestic product on...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is also the city airport. I beg the Senator's pardon.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In spite of the fact that Stansted is a vigorously competing airport, airport charges in Heathrow are extremely high. If one books a return air fare from Cork to Heathrow to travel next August, as I happen to have done recently, the air fare is actually €9 with Aer Lingus. However, the ticket costs €54. The charges come to €45, most of which are incurred in Heathrow. I wish the two...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Government has been in power for seven years.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (20 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: A leaked version of the report to which Senator O'Toole referred features on the front page of today's edition of The Irish Times. Among other findings, it concludes without equivocation that Irish consumers are being ripped off. The report as leaked states that even if one takes all the other issues such as insurance into consideration, Irish consumers are still paying excessively high...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is correct.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I can make thumping speeches as well as the next person. I intend to be a little more restrained on this occasion, although I do not intend to be any less critical. In my final year in college I was taught there are four functions of management — planning, organising, staffing and controlling. My understanding always was that staffing, organising or controlling could never be achieved...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is hard to add to what has just been said. I am not an authority on this but I know a little about these matters. There is no reason for a rich country to have a waste crisis. There is no reason for a city like Dublin to have a waste water treatment plant which stinks. There is no reason for Senator Dooley to have to raise the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He attempted to raise the matter on the Adjournment. There is no reason pharmaceutical plants should smell. If they do, it is because they are badly run. If a waste water treatment plant smells, it is because it is badly run. If we are pretending to recycle waste by simply shipping it off to China, that is because we will not do it properly. All of those problems are soluble. There are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is absolutely true.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Tá ball d'Údarás na Gaeltachta nach bhfuil in ann labhairt Gaeilge.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Ba chóir go mbeadh náire ar Fhianna Fáil go ndéanfadh sé a leithéid. Tá an ceart ar phobal Chonamara nuair a thugann siad Údarás na Galltachta air nuair atá duine ina bhall ar an údarás sin nach bhfuil in ann comhrá a dhéanamh as Gaeilge.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: This would be a much poorer country without Senator Maurice Hayes. Every week he appears to take over some body to try and help us to sort out another matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I congratulate him on his most recent appointment.