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Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was becoming of me.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Progressive Democrats just run it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have been a member of only one political party in my life. It is the same one that I am in now.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not blame people——

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There were a lot of photographers. The Minister for Defence likes playing with guns.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I agree with the sentiments expressed by Senator O'Toole. It is approximately six months or possibly a year since the Taoiseach rediscovered socialism and approximately two months since he rediscovered republicanism. He rediscovered the Irish language yesterday. As a token of this reconversion, will the Government agree to adequately fund TG4 and help a very successful television channel...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I grew out of playing with guns when I was around six years of age and it is about time the Minister for Defence did the same.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He is on radio shows.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Why are we encouraging it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is really relevant to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In the place where I occasionally work, if somebody claims to have a PhD, we check it out properly. We are able to distinguish between real PhDs and pretend PhDs. I have worked there for almost 30 years and we have never recruited somebody who did not have a real PhD. We manage that fairly well, as does every other institute of technology and university in the country. In the Cork Institute...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Everybody apparently knows these people. It appears that every crime journalist can name all of these people. Either we will not give our police force sufficient resources or we do not have the will to give the same attention to the movement of these people that was correctly given to people who were even suspected of having connections with the Provisional IRA. Could we have a debate at some...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is a story for another day. The founding leader said that people were still investing enormous amounts of money in property which he described as, "the least efficient form of investment". Can somebody explain to me why the Progressive Democrats vigorously supported a reduction in capital gains tax which stimulated this "least efficient form of investment"?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Can I ask for a debate on the property market which the Central Bank and all other commentators think poses the greatest risk to the future of the economy?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He claimed to have one.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We will get Senator Ross an honorary degree from the NUI.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: And of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Job sharing with the Sunday World.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.