Results 3,181-3,200 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I assure the Senator that I am still an independent at heart with a very free spirit. I am glad to have the opportunity presented by this motion to speak on this issue. I want to talk calmly about it, but I am not sure I will because what is happening currently in the illegally occupied territories in Palestine is an event of horrific brutality. I want to get through all of what are now...
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: It is clear but daft.
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: So have I.
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: If the Senator listened to me instead of talking to the Minister he would have heard me explain that.
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: No big deal.
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: And blow up another 15 year old.
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I will share my time with Senator Tuffy who will speak for five minutes while I will take ten.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I must declare an interest in this Bill as a staff member of an institute of technology. I assure the Minister of State that my timekeeping in the Cork Institute of Technology is better than it was here today when I arrived late for my allotted slot. Regarding Senator Ormonde's comments on the campaign to turn Waterford Institute of Technology into a university, I would prefer to have the...
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Senator Tuffy has said she is quite happy to wait for a separate slot because there is plenty of time remaining in this debate.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I would like to talk about a few aspects of the Bill. A section near the end of the Bill relates to "hiring and firing", which is an awful phrase. The great illusion in the public sector is that the big problem with management in that sector is that people cannot be hired and fired in the way they can be hired and fired in the private sector. No well-managed private company would operate the...
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I am. Senator Tuffy will speak later in this debate.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I thought I had made it clear that Senator Tuffy intends to speak later.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: How much time do I have left?
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I thought the Acting Chairman told me approximately five minutes ago that my time was almost up.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I am more confused than usual.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I will not take much of that five minutes. I would like to reiterate, in the presence of the Minister, that if we are to have genuine equality, somebody has to make sure that it is manifest and visible on the campuses, in the student facilities and in terms of staff accommodation. Like most staff members in institutes of technology, I am based in office accommodation that is worse than that...
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: In my opinion, the safest place to have a university is a good distance away.
- Seanad: Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: That is welcome.