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

Brendan Ryan: Of course not. We are prepared to nod and wink to each other, and say: "We won't ask and you won't say. We won't let on and you won't pretend, and, hopefully, you won't embarrass us." It is getting to a stage where some civilised country in the Western world must stand back and say that the whole Iraq project has failed. There is no stable Government and no security in Iraq. Some 85% of the...

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

Brendan Ryan: So al-Jazeera is bombed, an example of the independent and free media.

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

Brendan Ryan: That is called a put down, is it?

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

Brendan Ryan: Did they say that they do it, but that it does not happen here? Did they deny that they ever do it?

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

Brendan Ryan: Well done.

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

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

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

Brendan Ryan: That is absolute rubbish.

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

Brendan Ryan: It is difficult sometimes to restrain oneself.

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

Brendan Ryan: I would like people to attempt a degree of consistency. I have often stood here before or after Senator Minihan, and we have both, in unequivocal terms believed in the value of condemnation. This is the belief that it is important that small countries take a position based on morality. As I understand Senator Lydon's honourable position on the issue over a period of time I will restrain...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Níl a fhios agam cad a tharla le grúpa a haon but they are only minor matters. I am delighted that the wisdom of Senator Henry and Seanad Éireann in particular was finally acknowledged. To paraphrase Churchill's wonderful quote, never was so much of the time of so many people devoted to one word.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am glad that the process of parliamentary scrutiny has produced what I believe is a far more significant amendment than the one word suggests, and I welcome it.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was hours.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Apart from the scary fact that apparently the British Government is now reorganising Northern Ireland to suit Sinn Féin which, of itself, is fairly spooky, there is the extraordinary manner in which a prominent member of Sinn Féin's assembly party was suspended for recording dissent. If that were to apply here, the Leader of the House would have been sacked from Fianna Fáil a long time...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Plus myself, yes, of course.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: No, it is not just for Sinn Féin. It is about what defines democracy. What we in this House and in the other House are asking Sinn Féin to do is establish credentials that it accepts the rules of democracy. If there is zero room for dissent within a political party, then it does not qualify. No political party of which I know in this State has suspended somebody simply for saying he or she...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I would like the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to come in to the House to explain to us what is happening in the Department of Health and Children and in the health services. Last year it was announced that she is banning the publication of waiting lists until, presumably, they have rewritten them to suit their own convenience. There was the recent...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (23 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: For any citizen of this State, this is in many ways perhaps the most distasteful debate the Oireachtas has ever had to deal with. I remember the shock in this House at the first appearances of the X case, but however, awful, sad, tragic and anger-creating that was, it was a unique, once-off situation. The Ferns situation can not be something unique to one small part of Ireland despite all of...

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: They have lay boards but they have not changed their ethos. They are still Jesuit or Holy Ghost schools. However, they have pulled out of middle of the road secondary schools in country towns and no longer influence these. The same situation arises with regard to health. The hospitals which were established to serve the poor have become instruments for the preaching of particular views. We...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: What about Deputy O'Donnell?