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Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I moved an amendment to the Order of Business that the motion be taken. The Chair did not rule——

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Chair should rule on the material in the motion and not on my amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was being courteous by providing a written copy of the motion.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It should surely be the position that we would decide to amend the Order of Business, at which stage the Chair would rule the motion was out of order rather than rule on something that is not properly before the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that but I want to record my dismay.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not disagree with a word Senator O'Toole has said, except to add that while it is extremely important that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should come to the House to explain the situation, it is more important that something be done immediately to protect our children. It is important to separate the issue of the protection of our children from the more complicated...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was here too when amendments to the Offences against the State Act were rushed through both Houses in hours because an individual was suspected of having hot money. I do not understand why the limited amending legislation to deal specifically with the issue raised by the Supreme Court could not have been passed through the Houses of the Oireachtas by now. Therefore, I appeal to the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should be ashamed to mention his name.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Local Authority Operations: Motion. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator is well able to do that. There was a debate on this matter in the other House on 22 and 23 November last during which members of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, my party, the Green Party, Sinn Féin and the Independents spoke. No Progressive Democrats Member spoke in the debate but they voted against the motion. Not only did they not have this deeply found concern then, they did not...

Seanad: Local Authority Operations: Motion. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the content of the motion, which is yet another in the long list of issues that have made the lives of working families a misery in recent years, the first being the extraordinary price of houses and the second being the extraordinary difficulty of child care. I welcome this debate also because it is further evidence of the fact that this Government is in the process of falling...

Seanad: Local Authority Operations: Motion. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ——and he will not be surprised if I repeat myself slightly here. He will know what I am saying.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: He is good at correcting the record at present, so he is in the humour for it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Dúirt mé go raibh sé de shaor-rogha ag pobal an Daingin aon ainm a theastaíonn uathu a bheith ar a mbaile. Níl sé réasúnta nó intuigthe, áfach, go bhfanfadh pobal taobh istigh den Ghaeltacht agus iad ag teastáil ag an am céanna go n-ainmneofaí an baile as Béarla. I cannot see the logic. If the people of Dingle want to leave the Gaeltacht, so be it. It is their absolute right as...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator must be feeling——

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I have no idea why Senator Norris feels it necessary to abuse the fact that I can speak Irish.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I speak the two languages with reasonable comportment. If people wish to leave the Gaeltacht, nobody will stop them.