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

Brendan Ryan: As for the nonsense that Parliament should not be involved in foreign affairs, let us leave it at that. It is nonsense. It is one of de Valera's aberrations, a man for whom I have great admiration. It was a de Valera aberration that foreign affairs was his preserve and everybody else should butt out. That was always his view but he was wrong.

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

Brendan Ryan: We continue to be told there is no evidence. I could read out to the House the evidence of an Italian prosecutor on what was going on in terms of the 22 CIA operatives whom he has indicted but I do not have enough time. How much evidence do the Senators need to know this is going on?

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

Brendan Ryan: Senator Dooley can interrupt me as often as he likes——

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

Brendan Ryan: I do not allow myself to be diverted from fundamental principles by matters of local inconvenience. I have done it all my life and I have dealt with members of Senator Dooley's party who used race as an election issue. I did not let electoral concerns interfere with——

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

Brendan Ryan: I am proud of the fact that it might have cost me votes because it was the right thing to do.

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

Brendan Ryan: I move: "(1)(a) That, having regard to: (i) recent reports that US aircraft landing at Irish airports may have been used to transport persons to locations where they may be at risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment; and (ii) Ireland's obligations inter alia under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention...

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

Brendan Ryan: We agreed it with the Leader and with the Whip of the Progressive Democrats in the House. I could not go around and shake everybody's hand on the issue. I know that some Fianna Fáil Senators opposed this motion before they knew what was in it. Some of them did not realise that the committee was to have a Government majority. They did not realise that we would put temperate language into the...

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

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

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

Brendan Ryan: I am unsure what this has to do with wars.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We should not ask questions.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We should touch the forelock.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We should touch the forelock.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Labour Party is far from happy with this Bill. It is not at all clear to us what problem is being solved in respect of a number of issues. A variety of issues arose at various times in respect of planning. All sorts of lobby groups, IBEC in particular, chambers of commerce and Engineers Ireland, the professional body of which I am a member, have suggested at various stages that the legal...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: What about the Civil War?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should speak through the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We are very offended in Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear. Especially at night.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would like that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They claim they spend it on housing but there is no evidence of that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Taoiseach said it.