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Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Through what forum will the Attorney General be invited to explain what happened in his office in the period leading to the events that transfixed the nation last week and the week before last? Those with political accountability will have to submit themselves to questioning in these Houses. There seems to be a blanket of silence descending around the Office of the Attorney General which has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am most assuredly looking for an urgent debate on the report. which is now being made public. about our complicity in extraordinary rendition of people who ended up being tortured.

Seanad: Public Hospital Land: Motion. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State, although he may not welcome what I have to say. The Civil Service, and particularly the Department of Finance, is awash with accountants whose function is to account for money. There is not a single qualified project manager working in the Civil Service. Most people would not know that there is such a qualification but hundreds of young people train as project...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We do not mind if the Government falls.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It would suit us, given the present state of the opinion polls.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Since the issue of the value of social partnership has been raised, I am sick of the way in which vested interest economists selectively pick small items and state they would have been achieved without social partnership. Social partnership stabilised this country in the period between 1987 and 1989. Whatever might have been asserted subsequently about wage agreements and other matters,...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: As we are not allowed to use PowerPoint, we cannot do them here.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: She did.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Sections 14 to 16, inclusive, do not provide for somebody who can represent unorganised workers. Anybody working in agriculture is free to join a representative body and every employer is equally free to join IBEC. However, a significant number of people in this country are effectively being prevented by their employers from joining trade unions. A study carried out by UCD suggests that 70%...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: With regard to subsection (3)(a), I am somewhat disappointed that no legislative statement has been made on the appropriate proportion of Deputies and Senators. It would appear that the normal proportion is ten and five, respectively, but apparently the proportion could be 14 and one if the Taoiseach so wished. I do not know the current proportion but I presume that every joint Oireachtas...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was never asked.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was never asked.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I have only a small problem, that the House ordered that the debate would finish now. I am happy to report progress. I am a stickler for procedure, contrary to what people think.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I never said it was. I move that we report progress.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: This section dealing with expenses is a standard provision included in every Bill but it usually refers to a Minister. The normal wording of such a section is "The expenses incurred by the Minister ... shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance...". The requirement that sanction for expenses incurred by the Taoiseach must be approved by a Minister whom the...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is not standard for the reference to be to the Taoiseach.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I do not want to delay the House unnecessarily but this is not a standard provision in terms of applying to the Taoiseach. We are dealing with a different position in this Bill. The Taoiseach is the boss. He or she is the one who appoints and who can, without any reason, sack the Minister for Finance. There is the absolute right of a Taoiseach to seek a Minister's resignation. The Taoiseach...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I support everything Senator Brian Hayes said except his remarks on benchmarking on which we have a long recorded difference. The fundamental problem with benchmarking was that many of the participants in the private sector demanded that all the records be destroyed because they did not want what they regarded as confidential information about wages to enter the public domain. Senator Brian...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should consider what Mr. A admitted to.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: When Larry Goodman was in trouble, the Government had no difficulty in bailing him out.