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- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The US Government, it denied it ever happened.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: It denied it ever happened. I have no more to say on it. Although it denied it ever happened, every Member of this House knows what happened. People on the Government side accept the word of the US on a subsidiary but related issue because it is the easy option.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: We know he is not up to the job.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Rubbish.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Where is it?
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Many people agree with them.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I could have a great time if I had 20 minutes but as I have only five minutes I must be very selective. I will ignore all the vulgar abuse about myself and my associations with people in other countries, as well as other related matters. Instead I will concentrate on one or two points. The first is the extraordinary position where every single speaker on the Government side has indicated...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I do not think there are fools on the Government side, and I wish there were. It would then be easier to ignore the issue. I believe these are naive people who believe there is some benefit to Ireland from wobbling about fundamental issues when President George Bush wants us to wobble. Our Government has accepted the word of a government which has lied about the fundamental issue when it...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: It did not.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The US Government has never done so. It admitted it transfers prisoners from one place to another but it has never accepted responsibility for any of the cases documented in this report. It has denied they ever happened. There is an innocence on the Government's part because it does not want to get itself into a position of conflict with an obnoxious government in Washington. It decided...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: How does the Leader know that?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The Leader should not mind the press release.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The strategy is to get out of Ireland.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Ãireann noting that the members of Seanad Ãireann have always condemned the CIA practice of prisoner rendition; remembering that in spite of this, Seanad Ãireann declined to set up an inquiry into Irish collusion in such rendition; welcomes the report of the European Parliament committee set up to inquire into European complicity in such rendition; alarmed by the...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Let us not include personalities.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: It is all on our side.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Just indifference. We do not count and we always accept the apology.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Obviously the Senator got over it.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: He is not the president. Deputy Michael D. Higgins is the president of the Labour Party.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Senator Mooney is wrong.