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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: If the Senator wants to talk about who should be in prison, let him go and talk about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: With regard to at least half, if not two thirds, of those in prison, we are not being protected from them because they are no threat to us. We are not rehabilitating them either, but only teaching them how to be professional criminals. We should be prepared to examine this report, which was produced by UCD with the co-operation of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise, I must have misread it. Unlike Fianna Fáil, when I am wrong, I am prepared to admit I am wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Such sentiments never restrained him before now.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: So the refuelling of planes is acceptable.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No. 20 on the Order Paper is a Government motion regarding the procedures for the dismissal of a judge. I am surprised that this is still on the Order Paper, given what happened in recent weeks. Why has this item not been withdrawn? We all have reason to be concerned at the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights on collusion between the British...

Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Mar is gnáth nuair a phléimid an cheist seo, I must say something. My mother is in a public old people's hospital in my home town of Athy. Would that all our old people were in receipt of the quality of care provided at St. Vincent's in Athy. If the HSE wants a model of good practice, it does not have to get involved in complicated, complex,...

Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My view is of a monumentally incompetent Department run by monumentally incompetent Ministers and a monumentally incompetent HSE which blames systems failures for everything. Systems failures mean that the managers cannot or will not manage. They mean that the people in charge did not devise proper systems, ignored problems until they blew up in their faces and then blamed everybody else...

Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Not at all.

Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Whatever I am telling, I am telling the truth: I am not making it up.

Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Clearly, if one wants to do something about standards and is waiting for 23 years, one does not need to carry out a consultation process. The Department is full of reports, suggestions, memoranda, lobby submissions, etc., all outlining what people want. It is a smokescreen to cover up monumental ineptitude, inexplicable and unforgivable delays, and a classical Department of Health and...

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I have no objection to the Minister being allowed to finish.

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State said — I have no doubt he was being truthful — the fund about which this section is concerned "is widely seen as one of the most competent managing authorities in Europe." Is there a report somewhere to that effect? If it is one of the best managed funds, it would be interesting to know where that is written down. I am not trying to be smart but I would like to...

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I had hoped for more than an invitation to search the impenetrable website of the European Commission but, given that we are in the anomalous situation whereby the Minister for Foreign Affairs must deal with matters properly pertaining to the Department of Finance, I cannot expect the Minister of State to provide a full explanation. I am surprised at the praise awarded by the Commission,...

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They are facts rather than allegations.

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will resist the temptation to follow the Minister of State into the tangents he has described. However, I take it that he cannot provide me with a report which would support his claims. I am disappointed with that because this country lacks positive models of agencies which encourage local involvement while also achieving value for money for the public funds they spend. It would have...

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I raised a question about section 4 on Second Stage and received a reply from the Minister of State. However, after investigating the matter in the Library, I continue to find it peculiar. The British-Irish Agreement Act 1999 was commenced in the name of the Taoiseach, whereas the commencement of the British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act 1999 was a matter for the Minister for Finance. If...

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: What possible reason was there for not saying that the Bill would commence once enacted?

Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My response to that is "Come on".