Results 3,201-3,220 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: On a point of orderââ
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I wish to raise a point of order and the Chair knows what I am about to ask.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I never said that.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Regarding electronic voting, it is almost a case of the less said the better. It is an embarrassment to a country that would see itself as a leader in the field of e-government. The Government now knows that the computers, or e-voting machines, work. Big deal, what an achievement. One reached the stage where one might worry about even this. However, the Government bought bargain basement...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: When the Taoiseach is claiming the affiliations of the unions I will remind him of some of the things Senator Mansergh has said from time to time. It would be a disaster for the Government to rush a motion through one House of the Oireachtas which did not address the fact that Aer Lingus, if sold shortly, will be sold at a bargain price which could jeopardise its prospects of buying new...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I had to do that myself.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: The Government is not a world leader in that area.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
Brendan Ryan: We did not use the knowledge we have.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Yesterday morning I was accused of being ambivalent about killing. I read what I stated, which was "though I may find it morally wrong". I previously stood up in this House and condemned the murder of Rachel Corry. I also condemned the murders of 43,000 civilians in Iraq. I frequently stated that the deliberate or reckless targeting of civilians is a profound wrong. Whether it is deliberate...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I subscribe fully to his views on the uselessness and futility of violence. I also remember his extraordinary courage in refusing to visit the United States because it was a slave owning country. He refused to shake the hands of citizens of states of the union which practised slavery. He condemned the oppression of the Aboriginal people in Australia in 1840, before anyone else had noticed. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: That is a matter in which the Oireachtas should have a supreme role and it should be based on the individual consciences of Members of the Oireachtas. That has been my view on all of these matters. There is no simple answer to these questions.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: It is neither satisfactory to state it is murder, nor is it satisfactory to state the opposite. It is a difficult complex area because law and morality in issues such as this cannot be coterminous. It is avoiding the issue to pretend it is not difficult or that a simple solution exists. I would welcome a serious debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: I deeply regret the absence from this House of that good and decent person, Des Hanafin, who throughout the heat of debate during all of the controversies of the 1980s never stated a single bad word about his opponents.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: It is an example some people in this House could learn to live by.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.