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Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirfidh sé seo díomá ar an Teach. Más gá le duine déileáil leis an chuid den Roinn Oideachais agus Eolaíochta a láimhseálann scoláireachtaí do dhaoine óga ó ghaelscoileanna agus ó na Gaeltachtaí, faigheann sé comhfhreagras uathu as Gaoluinn amháin. Nuair a ghlaonn duine ar an ionad ina ndéantar an obair sin, áfach, is é an chéad rud dá dtarlaíonn ná go ndeireann...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: If enough people die there will be plenty of beds.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Fine Gael's increasing disillusionment with the free market will make the negotiation of a programme for Government much easier.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: For the next Government to be successful in comparison with the incumbent, it will not have to do much. We have very little to compare with, except delay.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There is a famous phrase, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." Fianna Fáil should be afraid when Senator Ross approaches.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps we might have a debate on something that emerged when we were off for a week around St. Patrick's Day. A group of secondary schoolgirls from County Laois appeared on the main evening news to demonstrate how easy it was to buy instruments of torture and small arms over the Internet. In a country that is in crisis regarding public fear of gun crime and the widespread use of weapons, the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Guardian was responsible for exposing more of the scandals of the present Labour Government than all the right-wing press in Britain put together.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They lay down before Thatcherism for 15 years and ignored the sufferings of the British people. If we want to go on about British newspapers, we can do so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps the Senators over there——

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am old, mature and sensible enough to ignore Fianna Fáil, having learned to do so a long time ago.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Of the decisions I have made in my life, the wisest was to walk away from Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps I might return to the fundamental problem of our having previously been told that we were categorically against incineration, which we now have. We were categorically against waste and service charges. Every local authority and member of the dominant party in Government voted against them, but we now have waste charges. Will we now find the same thing happening? There is categorical...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is April Fool's Day.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is what the Government said about incinerators.

Seanad: Agrifood Sector: Motion. (29 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I could probably speak for two hours on agriculture and the astonishing case history of this country's inability to think or be led strategically. I was told I was a left-wing extremist of all sorts of manifestations 30 years ago — I am still quite happy to have that appellation hung around my neck — when I and others suggested that fishing and fisheries had been sold out in return for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is what he said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We all support it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am as aware as anybody else of issues related to our declining competitiveness. It is worth pointing out that the Scandinavian countries are mostly in the top ten while we are in the bottom 20s in terms of international competitiveness. Therefore, when we deal with issues such as electricity and energy we need to make sure that what we will do is what will work. We have attempted to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We have never got a plan from the Government, rather a succession of aspirations and promises that were never kept.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Transport 21 was perhaps the nadir when the Government produced a loose-leaf paper with a proposal to spend €30 billion. That was not a plan but the problem is that the Government thinks it is. The sooner we all figure that out the better. When a rottweiler runs away from a rabbit there is a strange political climate. In that context, I want to record something I found profoundly offensive,...