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Seanad: Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will try to finish before my time has concluded. I want to speak in this debate, not because it is part of my brief but because every two or three weeks I have raised on the Order of Business a variety of issues on road safety. It is worth stating that a great deal must be done. One of the most terrifying facts is that back in the 1970s, the figure for road fatalities was in the mid-600s. I...

Seanad: Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is just jealousy.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Nor have the police.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There are few things more threatening to the perception of a valid democracy than the suggestion that the security forces enter into partisan politics. If, for instance, the armed forces were to take a similar stance, we would be rightly alarmed. However, I do not dispute the right of individual members of such forces to make political representations. It appears that the GRA missed this...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We do not know what the correct figure is anymore. The Minister told Cork Airport but he will not tell anybody else. He will obviously wait until after the next general election. He informs this House that it was a readjustment that was necessary before the legislation was introduced in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is in spite of the fact that part of his speech referred to the...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am about to finish. I have rarely heard a more disingenuous defence of Government policy than I heard tonight when a Minister attempted to say that we were making things up but then discovered he could not deliver his own script because it conceded that our point was essentially true and he was making up a story that bore no relation to reality. This has been confirmed by the amendment in...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps Senator Burke will mediate.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister is joking.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: After tabling an amendment like that, that takes some nerve.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is right.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should outline the position. He should not be lecturing us here. He should tell us the figure.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister always tells us we are wrong. He should tell us what the figure is.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should tell us what they are.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister left out the reference to debt in his script.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I hope Senator Wilson also respects Senator McCarthy. He would be very disappointed if he did not respect him.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Among the qualities given to me by the good Lord is my sense of humour, which has survived in spite of the vicissitudes of politics. I am also an engineer and, therefore, comfortable dealing with numbers. Fortunately, having spent long and tedious hours here dealing with legislation, I am also comfortable dealing with legal matters. When I hear a Minister give a speech comprised of hot air...

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann: —noting the commitment of the Government on 10 July 2003 that following the break up of Aer Rianta, "Shannon and Cork are being given a new debt free start" and that "the existing debts associated with both airports, including the debt associated with the major new investment programme at Cork, will not be assigned to the new companies"; —alarmed by the...