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Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I may be pedantic, but I am interested. I did not ask in order to be unhelpful, and I am not trying to catch out the Minister. I presume he has advisers. Like everyone else from our background, I noted the reference to Magna Carta in subsection (b)(iii)(I) and (b)(iii)(II). Is its significance purely to do with drafting?

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Some of us do not know.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The reference to "Statute de Conspiratoribus" has real echoes of Harry Potter.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: This stuff is interesting.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have a succession of questions and I will not ask them altogether, partly because it might confuse me apart from anybody else. I like the delicate reference in the explanatory memorandum that the originals of many of these early statutes are either in London or were lost in the destruction in 1922. It makes one feel that there are two equal horrors — one is destruction and the other is...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I take Senator Mansergh's word for it.

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: This is too serious an issue for me to make the sort of speech I usually make because I could beat the Minister over the head about the delays. I think it is a pity we may well end up trying to reinvent the wheel on this matter. I would have loved to have heard in the Minister's speech why her Department thinks the incidence of MRSA is so much lower in places like the Netherlands and...

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: When we were changing babies' nappies and preparing their bottles, we knew about enhanced hand hygiene. The Health Research Board's press release states it "will then use state-of-the-art molecular technology". What has this to do with washing one's hands. Somebody fed a good bit of jargon to the Minister who is, incidentally, a very intelligent woman. I am not sure what any of this means...

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: They are tougher too.

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Ní ró-mhinic a chímid anseo í anois, but the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, visits us fairly regularly and she is very welcome.

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We are always glad to welcome the Minister. In her early days as a Minister of State the Minister for Health and Children was one of the first to begin the practice of introducing legislation in this House. She had the double burden of introducing major legislation and dealing with a large, significant and domineering senior Minister simultaneously but she did both competently.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Some 200,000 medical cards.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is St. Valentine's Day, after all.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The transformation of a dying wasp into a threat to the security of the State is perhaps one of the most remarkable transformations. The Tánaiste told us less than two years ago that the gangland killings were the last sting of a dying wasp. They have now been transformed into a threat to the security of the State and to the Irish way of life that we have all grown to love. I agree with...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: When we were in power we finally sorted out the mess they created. We had higher growth and lower inflation on the only occasion there was a Labour Party Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The economy grew better, unemployment decreased more quickly and inflation was lower. On all three indices, this Government has made a mess of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: They led the country and they are not happy either. On a specific issue, there is much talk about the consultants' contract and many people have numerous qualms about hospital consultants. Being married to one, I must be measured in what I say.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There is nothing incompatible between smoked salmon and socialism. It was James Larkin who said that the working class were entitled to bread and roses. I happen to believe strongly in the bread and roses version of socialism that James Larkin articulated, and I stand over it. The Members here who do not know about whom I am married to obviously do not participate because I have said it...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: As I stated to the Cathaoirleach previously, I am not interrupting myself. In the proposals for the contract is a silencing clause which would require consultants not to criticise the services. That is the most appalling attempt to silence the people who have endeavoured most effectively to tell us what is wrong in accident and emergency departments, with neurological services and with...