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Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It could apply to anybody with 20 years' service.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Growing up as I did in a staunchly Fianna Fáil household in Athy, County Kildare, only eight miles from Stradbally where the O'Higgins were well rooted——

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ——one could not but be aware of the family's place in Irish politics, even if my awareness of its members' immensity was sometimes ascertained through fairly colourful descriptions of them. That was the nature of politics then and is probably still the case. The contribution of that family to Irish politics was immense. Former Senator O'Higgins was one of a family which made an enormous...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: In the 1970s the German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, resigned because a secretary in his office was found to have been involved in espionage. There was no suggestion he knew, there was no suggestion he could have known and there was no suggestion of wrongdoing on his part. Willy Brandt said he was responsible for what happened in his central office and resigned.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: There is no evidence the secretary was appointed by Willy Brandt, who made it clear he did nothing wrong but said he should have known and was responsible. It is often difficult to get through to the Government that the position of Minister is one of responsibility. Many people think it is about glory but it is about responsibility, to which I will refer later. The Minister stated the first...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Leaving aside the politics, let us consider the recommendations. When I looked at them on page 93, my jaw dropped. Most of what is recommended about how to run a decent organisation could have been written by a first year student of business studies. Did it really need €2 billion, or at least hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money for the Department to go astray? We do not know...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Page 51, paragraph 6.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Is it like the ATMs?

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I do not know the views of other Members of the House but if I was the chief executive of a multinational company thinking about investing in Ireland and was presented with a Minister who said he did not ask questions about the possible debt of €2 billion in his Department because nobody told him about it——

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ——I would have my doubts about the quality of the governance of a country where the Minister responsible for attracting foreign investment only looked after the areas the people he was responsible for told him about.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: On No. 1 on today's Order Paper, it emerged on "Morning Ireland" earlier that the mysterious missing file is no longer missing and the Minister for Foreign Affairs said he had no doubt that the material would be——

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister for Foreign Affairs said this material would be made available to the Oireachtas. If it is available can we have it before the debate? Why should we have to wait until after the debate to have what we are now told is available? Will the Leader ask the Department of Health and Children to make copies of that material available? We will be happy to have photocopies since apparently...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that there is to be a debate tomorrow regarding the Department of Health and Children. However, can the Leader ask whoever is responsible — I am not sure if it is the Taoiseach — to ensure that every Department now checks that there are no files floating around advising it that current practices are unconstitutional or otherwise illegal? We can debate the specific issue...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is why I said what I said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I said something similar to what Senator Finucane has just said and the presenter of the programme said that was pomposity and a rant. I want to record that if it is pomposity to make it clear that killing other people is murder, that justification of the killing of other people is appallingly wrong and that sitting in a radio studio and allowing people to justify the murdering of other...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: If to make a strong and passionate speech about it is to rant, then I am quite happy to rant. We saw yesterday what I was talking about last Thursday night — people who have no morality, no politics, no understanding of justice or law and who have revealed themselves to be precisely what they are, namely, murderous thugs. Whether they are elected to Dáil Éireann or not, when they are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Minster did not provide the money.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He did not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He did not provide the amount that was recommended.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That community would hardly reject an increase.