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Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Absolutely. It is worse for rich people.

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Minister sure he has that right?

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I ask the Leader if she has made any progress on the issue of aircraft allowed to land in the country that do not produce manifests of cargo and crew. Under what circumstances are these aircraft permitted? I agree with Senator O'Toole. I read this week about a group of Polish workers who complained six months ago that they were being underpaid by their employer, yet the labour inspectorate in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It was a hostel.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Liam Burke was my local Deputy for the best part of 20 years. I clashed with him once or twice in my earlier, perhaps excessively self-righteous, career in politics.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (5 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We became friends as the years went on, since it was impossible, once one knew Liam Burke, not to like him. He was immensely popular with members of my own party on Cork City Council, and also with all other members. Known affectionately as "Burkie", in his later years he had moved beyond party conflict, although he was very able in it, and was regarded almost as an institution in Cork...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I agree completely with Senator O'Toole. I hope the Taoiseach's comments are translated into legislation because I am certain that there are seven or eight countries in Europe where one could not do what is being done. Let us not hide behind the European Union. I am certain that in Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, Irish Ferries could not do this by law and yet those countries all...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: No matter what goes wrong, they never resign.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is a certain appositeness in this debate because, due to the spectrum of democratic politics, the Minister and I are close to opposite extremes.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He is not afraid that some thug operating on my behalf will attack him and, similarly, I am not afraid some thug operating on his behalf will attack me. We always recognised the rules and continue to do so. If I win, I win and if I lose, I accept the outcome. Not only is there only one police force in the State, there is only one Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: However, members of a certain political party still use the phrase. Even as they say there is only one army, they then talk of Óglaigh na hÉireann as belonging to them. It does not belong to them. Neither does it belong to the Government. Óglaigh na hÉireann belongs to the people through the Constitution. Only through the Constitution and constitutionally elected Governments, that can...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Gandhi was a man who brought an empire to its knees on the sacred principle that he would not take up arms against anybody. My two greatest heroes are Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Both achieved enormous change in their societies but said it was not morally justifiable to kill one person to achieve that change. The idea that a man who tells lies about his past and who leads a party that was...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It can only be done by the other 161 Deputies and 60 Members of the Seanad telling the five Deputies in question they are not above everybody else. They have been allowed into a privileged club with rules that demand respect. They must behave by the rules and not fudge or be ambiguous. The position is clear and unequivocal. They must co-operate with the forces of law and order and recognise...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Níor thug mé faoi deara go raibh an oiread sin daoine ag caint faoi anim baile an Daingean. Níor gá an iomarca aird a thabhairt don feactas atá ar siúl. While the statement is, of course, welcome and one welcomes and accepts the report of the international decommissioning body, we can only hope for progress. We could also hope for normal politics. I and, I am sure, most Members are sick...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second Senator Brian Hayes's proposal for an amendment to the Order of Business. It is increasingly clear that the concept of a regulator was introduced to pursue not the well-being of consumers but an ideological agenda. In this instance the regulator has recommended the opposite of what the ideology demanded so the regulator is ignored. There is a strong case for an intelligent discussion...