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Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am still not clear. As Senator Browne said the explanatory memorandum states, the section enables "the Irish Medicines Board to issue licences, permits and authorisations in respect of controlled drugs for various purposes including manufacture and supply, import and export". If that is the case then the Minister has no function. If the Minister has a function then the board is not enabled...

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would like to see a study on the market for Internet drugs in different countries, depending on the generosity of their public health service, in other words, in countries where people do not have heavy prescription charges, such as ourselves, for example. The drugs refund scheme is extraordinarily good for middle class families, in particular, but it hits people on a lower income. In...

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Is there any evidence in this country of increasing numbers of people showing signs of being harmed because of this activity? I would not care so much if it was just placebos that were involved. I would not care if people just got an overdose of chalk from the tablets but I would be concerned if there were half attempts at making the active agent, containing God knows how many impurities in...

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Of course. My life is already sorted out.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The story of my life is talking myself into work.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Did the form of the legislation cause problems? I have no problem with the amendment. Did the previous prohibition on the production of poppies inhibit people from celebrating great days in November? Is it something we included as a matter of good sense? The amendment proposes that we no longer prohibit the production of poppies unless it is for the production of opium. It used to be a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Upset the Roman Catholic Church?

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That was before the Taoiseach rediscovered his socialism.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: This Bill is one of the most badly constructed pieces of legislation I have seen in my political career. I have no argument with any issues it contains. The Short Title of this Bill is the Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and it incorporates amendments to the Irish Medicines Board Act, the Control of Clinical Trials Acts, the Misuse of Drugs Acts and the Health Acts. A...

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is a lot of amendments to take together. Amendment No. 38 is one page long. I am not trying to be unhelpful but one might like to ask questions about some of these amendments. Organisational convenience may have to be subordinated because it is the privilege of the House to refuse to agree to group amendments. However, I do not wish to do that.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps the Minister of State would be kind enough to talk about amendment No. 38. I am not trying to speak for Senator Browne either.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: What risk taking. Irish capitalism.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In an extraordinary attempt by the worst kind of business practice to reassert its capacity to exploit, which is what the Irish Ferries dispute is about, one of the Government's arguments was that legislation offered to it in the other House could not be introduced because it would be in breach of European obligations. I have before me amendment No. 63 to the Irish Medicines Board...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Ireland was then an impoverished country, ruined by Fianna Fáil. It was a long time ago.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: They cannot.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We had a debate before on this.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am happy to agree with Senator Brian Hayes on the issue of the brave lady who perhaps sorted out, once and for all, the position of people with guide dogs. However, as somebody who lives a long way from Dublin I am particularly disturbed by the proposal that seems to have emanated from Dublin City Council that the sort of identification for drivers with disabilities which the rest of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is unfair to drivers in Dublin. It will make it impossible for drivers with disabilities outside Dublin to come into the city. They will have to pay €100, if these bureaucrats get their way, for the privilege of a separate recognition. The council has decided that the standard blue permit is being abused. I heard no evidence of this. The person I heard on the radio stated that all an...

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would appreciate if he gave the indication that the issue was serious. Effectively, control of Iraq has been handed over to a Shi'ite militia in Shi'ite areas, to a nominal Iraqi army under the control of many of the militias fighting the insurgency and to a Kurdish army in the areas of Iraq which have a Kurdish majority. It is impossible to see the purpose served by the forces of...