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- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: ââand it has achieved nothing. Everything that is claimed for itââ
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I know the revenues from capital gains tax. What would the Minister of State expect in a country where capital values have appreciated so rapidly? Would he expect less?
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I did not say they were. I am well aware of the limitations.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I apologise. I was trying to speak through the Chair. The most disturbing aspect of this budget is the failure to respond to the strategic issues that have been identified. Both Senator Ross and I have referred to the views of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland about what is needed in the national development plan. I have recommended to the Leader and others that this document should...
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I regret that nothing in the budget is focused on the scale of the infrastructure crisis in both transport and broadband and access to air traffic that is confronting this country, as identified by the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. Ending where I began, it is about the next election and it is not about strategy. To the degree that it neglects fundamental strategic issues, it is an...
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: The Senator should remind us of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Ministerialââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Nobody said that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Who said we should have no prisons?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Will the Leader name somebody who said we should have no prisons?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: The Leader said some people said there should be no prisons.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Do us the honour of naming people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Who said that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: That is a distortion of what was said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: There is no sign of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Okay, please do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: This morning's reports on the study of recidivism, etc., confirms a view I have held since I came to the House, that apart from protecting us from dangerous people, prisons serve no purpose. They do not rehabilitate or deter people, but turn them into criminals. It is an interesting statistic that 85% of people who end up in prison for defaulting on a fine end up in prison again within four...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Senator Daly is having fun and making silly remarks about locking prisoners out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)
Brendan Ryan: There are people who should be in prison, some of them close associates of Senator Daly and who never went to prison, and society would be a lot better off if they spent the rest of their lives there.