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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: If I sought favours people would immediately suspect there was something wrong. Nevertheless, I am glad I had my wits about me at the time. Níl mé chun aon rud a rá faoi logainmneacha bailte beaga san iar-dheisceart.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is trua go raibh an t-am ag an Seanadóir O'Toole. Bhí mise chun a rá nár luadh an cheist liom i mí a chaith mé sa cheanntar le linn an tsamhraidh. Bhí a lán rudaí níos tábhachtaí le plé ag muintir an ceanntair ná logainm an bhaile bheag. Tá brón orm, ní luafaidh mé a thuilleadh é, tá mé fed up ar fad leis. During the Ryder Cup, which was a glorious success, although I...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Universities Act imposes all sorts of responsibilities on universities and is restrictive in terms of the right to the title "university". I am, therefore, entitled to wonder if those granted that privilege by way of legislation enacted by the Houses of the Oireachtas are meeting the required standards. The conferring of honorary degrees in the presence of a major benefactor of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Brian Hayes asked earlier that the Minister of Transport be invited to the House. Perhaps when he is here he will deal with enforcement of safety equipment requirements for airlines registered in Ireland. Following the recent tragedy on board an aircraft owned by the biggest airline operating out of Ireland, a doctor and two nurses spoke of the unavailability of rudimentary first...

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It knows more about making hay than it does about broadband.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They cannot use it in many cases.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Shareholders benefitted, infrastructure did not.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Re-nationalise it, buy it back.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: A motorway that turns into a dirt track.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Who gave it that monopoly?

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There is a degree of mystery about the extraordinary ineptitude of the present regime, in its two manifestations from 1997 to today, in dealing with broadband. As I just told Senator Ross, this is one issue for which it cannot blame anybody else. No preliminary work was required. In 1997, at a time when nobody here knew much about broadband, it was being discussed in some of the chattier...

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It was a figure of speech. The Senator should not play games.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This is a serious debate.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: All the statistics are little because everything about this is little.

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, ó mo chontae dhúchais féin, fear a bhfuil an-mheas agam air. I join with those who expressed sympathy and regret at the loss of Mr. Power, whom I did not know but who obviously had made a considerable impression. I wish to pay an unqualified tribute to my constituency colleague and fellow resident of Cork, on a very brave decision which pitted him...

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will not go into too much detail. Smoking has never been a vice that I could see the point of. I can see the point of every other vice. If smoking was not addictive, people would give it up very quickly because I do not believe it gives any great long-term satisfaction. It is something people start and they then become addicted and cannot give up. By the time they realise it is doing...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Has everybody?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is he retiring?

Seanad: Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2005: Statements (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am sure the Minister of State got over it.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We in the Labour Party would also like to convey our good wishes to the garda who was injured while bravely upholding both the principle of a society governed by law and the right of ordinary people to live in it without fear. I wish him a speedy recovery. It should be remembered that for all the occasional and perhaps more than occasional critiques, we have a police force which has managed...