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

Brendan Ryan: When we wanted to investigate Shannon the Government would not let us.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My party and its spokesperson on foreign affairs believe that the decision taken by the Foreign Ministers of the European Union at the recent Council meeting ranks among the most negative decisions in the history of the EU's relationship with the Middle East. I was depressed, annoyed and angry, and remain so, at this capacity to lecture victims of oppression about the need to reject violence,...

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Even though their police force has collapsed, we care about the poor.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Chaos has descended on the poor of Palestine and the Minister of State claims to be defending their interests.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The police force cannot be paid. Does the Minister of State care?

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: He can speak for himself. He does not need the Minister of State to do so.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Acting Chairman for his defence.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is not true.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hamas has a ceasefire.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State knows that Hamas has a ceasefire.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Such as the attack on Canary Wharf.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Sometimes we look it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Someone should tell that to the European Union.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It would be churlish not to acknowledge the progress that has been made. However, I hope that those who now recognise that the Army of this State is Óglaigh na hÉireann will sometime soon recognise that they do not own the word "republican" either. A prominent member of Sinn Féin said he could not be at the GPO because he had made an arrangement with republicans in Cork. There are two...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Let us not give away language.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is the only word I would dispute with our friends from the DUP — their willingness to allow one party to take over that word. It is time we took it back from them. I would be reluctant to cause the slightest bit of rancour about the 1916 commemorations, even though I recorded a slightly dissenting view in one of the newspapers recently. Like others, I have received an invitation to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Some 90 years on we could offer the mass for everybody who died, not just those who took a particular view. It is long enough behind us now to recognise that civilians were also killed, who did not think they were dying for Ireland at the time, in addition to policemen and British soldiers. A mass for those who died in 1916 would be a small gesture in the direction of that word...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was half expecting to see that somehow or other James Connolly had founded Fianna Fáil, given that party's inclusiveness.