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Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Senator O'Rourke took a peculiar position on the first referendum.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise to the Leader for heckling. I welcome the Bill and apologise to the Minister on behalf of my colleague, the Labour Party spokesperson on justice matters, Senator Tuffy, who has been unavoidably delayed. As I recently told another Minister, I am more disorganised than usual. I apologise in advance if parts of my contribution are less coherent than I would wish. Several...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I do not want to get involved in an exchange which might identify the individual in question. However, I want to defend the then Bishop of Cork Michael Murphy who was not of that breed and was, in many ways, most enlightened, as I am aware in both a personal and public capacity.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: As a result of the publicity associated with the Stay Safe programme, a parents' meeting we held at the school was packed. The meeting scrutinised the programme in great detail and the overwhelming response of the largely female audience was that it was not nearly blunt, explicit or clear enough to satisfy parents. The idea that the introduction of the Stay Safe programme gave rise to a...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Stay Safe would not be in the style of a certain bishop of a diocese near Cork city. I welcome the Bill. At the risk of attracting the sort of headline I do not want, I am mindful of a letter written by the late Judge O'Leary about some issues in life and society and the apparent determination to create a climate in which people can be easily branded. It is in this context that I will...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I invite Members to consider how many of us——

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The normal procedure is for the Chair to warn speakers when they have one minute remaining. I got no such warning but I apologise for exceeding my time.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have no problem with that. There is no need for the Acting Chairman to get annoyed with me.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I was not objecting.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We have loads of them. We even have a few in the Oireachtas.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is rare that I agree with the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism but regarding the issue a ndearna an Seanadóir O'Toole tagairt dó, is cosúil go bhfuil an ceart aige ó thaobh polaitíochta de mar an t-aon phobalbhreith a tógadh i ndeisceart Chiarraí, ba shoiléir nach raibh ag éirí leis an iarrthóir ba mhó a bhí taobh thiar den fheachtas i gcoinne logainm an Daingin a bheith...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Norris's attachment to the Irish language is long admired by me.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: In the report of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate most of the focus has been on procedures for dealing with sieges, which is very welcome. However, most disturbing is the inspectorate's conclusion about how badly equipped the Garda is. We have been hearing this from Garda representative organisations and other organisations. However, there seems to be casualness about equipping the Garda...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister ought to come to the House to explain his response not to one little bit——

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have no idea.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: On competitiveness, there was a daft proposal from chambers of commerce that not enough people were paying tax. They stated that the 40% who were not paying income tax were somehow outside the political process and should be required to pay tax again. On whatever else there may be disagreement, there is consensus in this House that that is among the daftest proposals that has ever been...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Like everything else, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats inherited it.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: If an individual uses a landline telephone and commits an act as I have listed, it is an offence. If an individual sends an offensive or abusive text message or an electronic mail, it is not an offence. The amendment proposes that the section deems an electronic mail or text message as having been sent by telephone. On Committee Stage, the Minister of State stated he did not intend to deal...