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Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Iman al-Hams, a young Palestinian was murdered by the Israeli defence forces in October. The Israeli authorities exonerated the army officer whose own troops saw him shoot the child. There is a transcript of the radio conversations taking place when that happened which demonstrates quite clearly that this was deliberate, cold-blooded murder. If a Palestinian had done it we would quite rightly...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The world, however, stands back in silence when a terrified child running away from one of the most powerful defence forces in the world is murdered in cold blood because the perpetrator is a country with which we have, at best, an ambiguous relationship. I again appeal to our Department of Foreign Affairs to raise the issue of Iman al-Hams with the Israeli Embassy. It is a crime worthy of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I move an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the first item we should discuss is the Government's reneging on its pledge to meet the UN target on overseas development aid by 2007. The Estimates may provide a blanket to cover this issue. This is not just a question of abandoning the poor of the world but how the world sees a Government which feels free to make solemn pledges at a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Can the Senator trust him?

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: If I said what Labour Party supporters think, I would have to withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Is this a speech?

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements (Resumed). (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I am severely tempted to comment on what Senator Brian Hayes has said but if I did the Chair would remind me to speak on the topic under discussion. Like any lay person I do not possess the analytical or the actuarial skills to look 40 years into the future. We have to do our best to forecast what will happen. I read an article in the Irish Banking Review a few years ago about the pensions...

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Morrissey does not need to worry that he will be accused of being a socialist.

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire, duine i measc na hAirí Stáit atá tar éis a rá le gairid go bhfuil sé ar an eite clé, mar aon leis an Taoiseach. Cosúil leis an Teachta Joe Higgins, tá mé agbrath go bhfuil an spás in a bhfuilim beagáinín plódaithe le daoine atá ag iarraidh——

Seanad: Pension Provisions: Statements. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: One of the remarkable developments in civilised western societies has been the extraordinary consensus that one cannot leave people who move beyond working age to fend for themselves according to some law of the jungle. According to my often faulty memory, it has been 150 years since Bismarck introduced the idea of an old-age pension and 100 years since it was first conceived of here....

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Lost for words.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Faoi cheist Bhille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, bhí argóint idir mé féin agus an tAire toisc gur chuir sé scríbhinn amach anseo agus téarmaí teicniúla ann nár thuig mé ariamh agus nach dtuigfeadh éinne sa Ghaeltacht ach oiread. An dearcadh taobh thiar de Bhille na Teangacha Oifigiúla, agus is cosúil go bhfuil sé beagáinín caillte, ná go mbeadh gach seirbhís a bhí ag teastáil...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: What Senator Quinn said is the nub of the issue. One of the wonderful things about dealing with legislation is that one learns a great deal. Given that the citizens of 92 countries accept that physiotherapy and physical therapy are the same profession, when a person sets up a school of physical therapy or calls himself or herself a "physical therapist" and practises as one, that is...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We did not say that.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: As you well know, Acting Chairman, my vanity alone leads me to withdraw most amendments on Committee Stage simply so I can resubmit them on Report Stage. I would not have pressed the amendment anyway but I am grateful for the willingness of the Minister of State to consider it on Report Stage. If he sustains the tone he has just demonstrated we will make an enormous amount of progress on the...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, line 17, subsection (2), after "subsection (1)," to insert "and in particular shall, within the period of 12 months from the passing of this Act, so designate the profession of counsellor or therapist,". Every time I refer to this matter I must declare an interest because I am married to a psychiatrist and, consequently, I do not get an unbiased view of the...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I know.