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Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: While I am happy to support Senator O'Toole, I never thought I would support an amendment to the Offences against the State Act.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Nevertheless common sense must rule here.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should wait until I get really biased and prejudiced, then he would have something to talk about. While I thought I was supporting him, obviously my support was not to his satisfaction. With every passing day it becomes increasingly urgent to have a debate about the way in which the debt incurred by Aer Rianta and officially, we were told, now incurred by the Dublin Airport...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is probably the blinding lights on the dual carriageway that are affecting Senator Dardis.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is appallingly lit, marked, signposted and unpoliced. The official speed limit on most stretches is 60 km/h. I was driving at 80 km/h as was every other car and was overtaken by trucks at speeds of at least 90 km/h if not 100 km/h on a road that barely has room for two carriageways. If anybody is unlucky a major disaster will occur on the road. We should either enforce the law or change...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Government says it has investigated the matter. How did it investigate it? It will not tell us. It tells us there is no need for this investigation because the Council of Europe and the European Parliament have done that. It is fine for the European Parliament and the Council of Europe to investigate it but it is not appropriate for the Irish Parliament. I know the reason for that. It is...

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Mansergh, in his naivety or perhaps because he is by nature a very honest man, let the cat out of the bag when he said that the fundamental issue is that the Government wants to hold on to foreign policy. It wants to be accountable to nobody except——

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It knows this will be an issue in the general election. The idea was put about that there was no majority in this House for this motion. I defy the Senators on the Government benches to say they will have a free vote to see where the majority lies.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They are afraid not to whip their own into line——

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ——because the Government has told them they must kowtow to Uncle Sam, they must not upset Condoleezza Rice or stand for a principle because they will upset their friends in Washington the week before St. Patrick's Day, on which day they will eat, drink and be merry with a man who is responsible for at least 50,000 deaths in Iraq. That is what they stand for. God be with Dan Breen——

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: God help us. Imagine if it did that.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Some 100,000 people are dead and we should not talk about it.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: But.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I will make my contribution in a bullet point fashion because there are a number of issues to be dealt with. Let us first get rid of the anti-American notion. I had the privilege of meeting Senator John McCain last September to talk about Irish illegals in America. Senator McCain is a brave American. He was the one who led the charge against his own Administration to ensure that American...

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Will somebody explain to me the reason the Attorney General has not told the gardaí that they can investigate these aircraft? Have we reached a level of incompetence that advice that goes to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe never reaches senior officers of the Garda Síochána? That is a fact.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That is a fact. Senator Norris checked it yesterday and the gardaí——

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ——assured him again that they had no power to search such an aircraft.