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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (11 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Bhí aithne agam ar Tom Fitzpatrick agus bhí meas agam air. He was a man who seemed to be able to combine the qualities which meant one could warm to him and still have a sense of being in the presence of somebody who was worthy not just of affection but of respect. I was a new Senator and I may have been a little loud and brash but I found him a person to whom I could talk. He was...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Senator O'Rourke is topping the poll.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh an díospóireacht seo. As putative leader of the Labour group — in the Labour Party every leader is putative — Senator Tuffy has been asking me for months to facilitate a debate on this motion.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is a good idea because too much time is spent in this House trying to be a mirror image of the other House and in shouting at one another. While I yet may do some shouting, this issue is worth discussing because there is a profound problem, both in Ireland and in western society generally, of disengagement from politics. It would be remiss of me not to state that this is not helped by...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The fundamental issue is that—

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: — politics has changed to a degree in western societies and ideological differences have become blurred, at least in the short term. While I believe they will arise again because of forces at work in the evolution of economies that will reinvigorate a serious ideological debate, in the short term, members of the public are easily persuaded that who is in power makes no difference. It...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We would hardly put that on the record ourselves.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I managed to avoid that experience, much to my relief.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They probably do not consult socialists.

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This issue is of such considerable importance to so many people that the Labour Party will forgive the Minister of State for trying to steal its thunder by publishing the White Paper during its two-day conference in Cork.

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (4 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We will, however, have greater difficulty forgiving the junior partners in Government for holding their conference on one of the days to which I refer and thereby distracting attention from our deliberations. We will not fall out on this issue. I wish to begin by apologising to the Minister of State. On his initial appointment and for the fun of it, I made a few less than flattering...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Government gave the builders a dig-out.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Ní raibh mé ciúin in aon chor.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Leader going to tell us anything else?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I invite the Leader to elaborate on her intriguing remarks at the end of yesterday's Order of Business in regard to the source of the leak which has transfixed the nation for the past week or so.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No, I am not.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As some Members will be aware, following the somewhat traumatic loss of my seat from this House in 1993 I was offered financial support by a very successful businessman, a friend of mine, who offered to pay for a court case which I was at the time contemplating. He then offered to pay the cost of my next election campaign. I had the wit to say "No" to him at a time when I was only a very...