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Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: So the provisions are entirely about civilian aircraft engines.

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have a further brief point. I wish to compliment whoever wrote the definition of a helicopter on page 36. It is to the credit of whoever drafted it and whichever international body is concerned. If I were asked to write a definition of a helicopter, I would not do as well. It is very good and I am impressed.

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Indeed, I am an engineer.

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Yes. I do not think that the Minister drafted Schedule 2, but I will give him credit for it.

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The marketplace.

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am not allowed mention the name of the person who set up the International Financial Services Centre because he is not acceptable. The IFSC is one of a number of very enlightened ideas that Mr. Haughey had while Taoiseach. Regardless of other matters, he deserves credit for a considerable amount of vision in this regard. He received much mockery about the IFSC from places not far from where...

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Dooley is coming around.

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann, —recognising the important contribution being made by immigrants to our current prosperity but noting the alarming number of reports of exploitation and abuse of immigrant workers and the assertion by the Government that such alleged exploitation was only investigated after a complaint was made; —condemns all such exploitation and abuse of guests in our...

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator hears us argue for them.

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It looks like Deputy Joe Higgins wrote it.

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The punchline was taken from me.

Seanad: Immigrant Workers: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: We would benefit from a reasonably calm debate on what is the matter with much of our indigenous industry and what are its problems. Its "slash and burn" mentality was well articulated by the Dungarvan workers that I heard being interviewed, who spoke about the enormous efforts they had made as well as the suddenness and apparent brutality of the closure announcement. How is it that workers...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (4 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Nothing I said is disparaging. It is true.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Taoiseach is in Madrid and it is ironic that one of the issues he is discussing is the official status of the Irish language in the EU, given that his party nominated and helped elect a member who cannot speak a word of the language to Údarás na Gaeltachta. That represents an exercise in political hypocrisy of the highest order. If we have a commitment to the Irish language, I hope...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The people did not nominate him. He was nominated by a party which knew full well he could not utter a sentence in Irish and got him elected to Údarás. It is hard to recall an exercise in hypocrisy exceeding this. Today's newspapers report on the EU's attempt to harmonise divorce legislation, which Senator Terry has raised in the House on a number of occasions. Anybody, like myself, who was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The clerical vote I get did not vote for the present Pope.