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

Brendan Ryan: I am glad the Minister of State mentioned Ard-Fheiseanna.

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

Brendan Ryan: It is appalling rather than "unsatisfactory", which is far too soft a word.

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

Brendan Ryan: I am usually rude but I wish to say the Minister of State is welcome. The fact that he ran away, so to speak, from a few of the hard questions is perhaps understandable. Given all the kind words he used about the Labour Party motion, it is not clear to me the reason there must be an amendment, or one of this scale, to the motion but we will live with that. There is a fundamental issue to be...

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

Brendan Ryan: The third man is Deputy Michael D. Higgins — there is absolutely no doubt about that. There is a wonderful rhetoric of compassion, concern and all the good, social democratic instincts, but the fundamental problem is the delivery of the resources to follow through on that. The delivery of such resources is what distinguishes conservatism from social democracy. That is the reason the...

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

Brendan Ryan: We could solve many of the problems that way.

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

Brendan Ryan: That is difficult with 35 children in a classroom.

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

Brendan Ryan: That is correct.

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

Brendan Ryan: Quite right.

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

Brendan Ryan: It does nothing properly.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We will be lucky to see her again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In regard to what Senator Brian Hayes wants debated, it is worth recording that this country has the second highest level of income inequality in the OECD and is only surpassed by the United States. In the United States a debate is beginning in newspapers as diverse in their ideologies as The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal about the implications of inequality. Hurricane Katrina...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I thought they were decisions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Aspirations.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Or secret waiting lists.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The trouble with following my colleague, Senator McDowell, is that he is so good at developing points in a logical and calm way that I must restrain my usual style and fit in with his logical and calm way of dealing with things.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: When one is trying to deal with the massive contradiction which is the Progressive Democrats, it is very difficult to be logical because of its aspirations to be the party of social justice, of low taxes and its determination to be the party which looks after the rich. It is very hard to reconcile the three aspirations sometimes and, therefore, one is tempted to be illogical and follow it...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not believe there is a single universal law of economics. I will tell the Senator why——

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am an engineer and, therefore, something of a scientist. I am sceptical as to whether science knows any laws of nature. All we have are the best approximations of what currently is known and many of those will be revised. Newton's laws are crude approximations of Einstein's E=mc2. We spend our lives relearning and rewriting. If it is not true in the physical sciences, it is most surely not...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We were cleaning up Fianna Fáil's mess.