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Seanad: Inspector of Prisons Reports: Motion. (22 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is not the case in this House. We are very good at dealing with legislation and we would be quite happy to accommodate the Minister of State tomorrow.

Seanad: Inspector of Prisons Reports: Motion. (22 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: On a point of order, can the Minister of State tell me where they have been made available? I checked with two colleagues and we have not seen them. The Minister of State should not make such assertions if they are not correct.

Seanad: Inspector of Prisons Reports: Motion. (22 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I begin by quoting Mr. Justice Dermot Kinlen's letter to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, which comprises the introduction to the second annual report of the Inspector of Prisons: "I am quite certain that many senior officials will not like much of my proposed Bill [to make his position statutory] as it will offend their basic mantra about power, secrecy, control and...

Seanad: Inspector of Prisons Reports: Motion. (22 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The one thing of which I am sure is that the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners will not be meeting any first time house buyers to discuss their tax positions with them, thereby defining the nature of Irish society fairly well. I agree with the issue just raised by Senator O'Toole. Too many people have been conning Irish agriculture for far too long. The CAP, as Irish farmers came to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Envelopes are well known to at least one member of Dublin City Council's staff.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is no doubt that if there is even a remote suspicion that a kidnapped child was on board an aircraft that passed through an Irish airport, the entire resources of the State would be devoted to rescuing that child.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It appears that people who are kidnapped with a view to being tortured in some of the most nasty regimes in the world are immune from the attentions of our security services. That is disgraceful. We will deal today with the Maritime Safety Bill 2004. I compliment the Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Gallagher, on the thorough and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: This weekend, at a rock concert in Croke Park, the Taoiseach was yet again deservedly booed for his betrayal of the poor of the world. The lead singer of U2 pointed out this betrayal and the young people in attendance responded appropriately. If Fianna Fáil could come to appreciate that promises made should be kept, this country would have much better policies.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The people of Ireland are far better than Fianna Fáil imagine. When an alternative Government promises there will be legislation to guarantee the commitment made in regard to overseas development aid, that promise will be kept and implemented and the people will respond accordingly. The Government should be ashamed of itself. The young people of this country demonstrated their feelings on...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I support the Leader of the Opposition in regard to risk equalisation. It is high time we had a debate on this matter given that the Tánaiste is ideologically assaulting a successful public enterprise in the interests of protecting private enterprise. Her attempt to undermine the VHI in the interests of two private companies is disgraceful.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am also a lovely man inside the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would not believe anything from the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was clearing up the mess.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: If it was in Opposition, Fianna Fáil would support them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He deserved a lot more than booing.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is an error in the list of amendments submitted to us. I am somewhat taken aback by this but there is an error.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: As we must deal with 138 amendments that were mostly rammed through the Dáil without discussion, for Members to be provided with groupings which are wrong makes the already difficult position of dim-witted people like myself, who do not have the benefit of a legal education, even more difficult. I would have thought this error would have been drawn to the attention of Members sooner rather...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I was going to begin by saying I spoke more in sorrow than in anger but it is more with a sense of ironic hilarity than either sorrow or anger that I rise. That the security of the State is in the hands of a Department that deals with parliamentary process in the way this Minster has allowed is not something by which I feel threatened. The level of incompetence is so great that I do not feel...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Oireachtas was not treated with the respect it deserved by the Minister and the Department. The Oireachtas was the subject of a farce last week, with amendments appearing out of fax machines at a rate that generated vast quantities of paper in Members' offices and even greater quantities of confusion. I am not a lawyer but I have been in this House long enough that I am not bamboozled by...