Results 4,561-4,580 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: As I once had a small hand in Professor Murphy's departure from the House, I am not sure what I should say.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He is most welcome in the House as an old friend. I feel the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists had a point on the use of language, particularly having read its admirably succinct submission. So many bodies believe that unless a submission is 20 pages long, one will not be impressed. The opposite is the case and I share the views of the former Taoiseach, Mr. Reynolds. If it cannot be put...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have enough of it to keep me going for a while.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: There is no profession in the list to which I object. I am not suggesting that chiropody should not be on the list but while the harm a chiropodist can do is quite significant, the harm a poorly-trained therapist can do when starting to explore people's subconscious and working into that area is significant for individuals, for their relationships and sometimes for society. The area of...

Seanad: Competitiveness and Consumer Protection Policy: Statements. (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I am tempted to respond to Senator Leyden but I will resist the temptation. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, whom I have known for quite a while. His recent promotion was long overdue.

Seanad: Competitiveness and Consumer Protection Policy: Statements. (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: When I hear references to Ireland being the most open economy in the world, I wonder if I am living in the same country. Senator Leyden, whom I understand to be Fianna Fáil's Seanad spokesman on matters such as trade, has suggested that we should draw a cordon sanitaire around the country. He thinks we should con people from other countries into coming to Ireland by failing to tell them...

Seanad: Competitiveness and Consumer Protection Policy: Statements. (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: If we pretend that Ireland is a low-cost economy, business people who come here will last for a couple of days before they disappear when they realise they have been conned. They will head for Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong or the free trade zones in China where they can access as much cheap labour and low costs as they want. Regardless of whether the website mentioned by Senator Leyden...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The best way to deal with people who claim to be non-residents is to require them to prove they are non-resident, rather than the reverse whereby the Revenue Commissioners must prove they are resident. We should adopt the approach of the United States. Any tax paid by Irish citizens abroad, if they are non-resident, should be offset against their Irish tax but if this still leaves them owing...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The director is too busy chasing the petrol industry.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: When I was training to be an engineer many years ago, we were taught that the functions of management were to plan, organise, staff and control. Week after week the Government explains about the breach of yet another commitment regarding pupil-teacher ratios in primary schools. In the richest country in Europe, there are currently 100,000 children being taught in classrooms with in excess of...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: NCT testing is like speed cameras and clamping for parking offences — they are all good ideas to which no one could sensibly take exception. The truth is, however, that in each case there has been an accumulation of anecdotal evidence of individuals in NCT services or clamping acting in a manner calculated to provoke outrage among the public. I am at a loss to understand why a brand new...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I tend to forget to do that and end up apologising afterwards. It is just my scatter-brained way of doing things. The core of the issue is identified in the Government amendment to the motion that mentions the centres in Dublin. It takes some nerve to say that people in Dublin have, "ready access via a modern road network to high volume purpose-built...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I listened with interest to the Minister's speech. There is not much point, however, in rehearsing the history of a member of the minority party in Government who talked about the Ceausescu-style project in Abbotstown. I have always been somewhat ambivalent about these allegedly Ceausescu-type projects. We should have had decent cost estimates, which we rarely have, at the beginning of the...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: With that invitation, let me say that the FAI must be the definition of incompetence in running a sporting organisation. We have had the mystery of how stadia appear and disappear. How many headquarters has soccer had in Cork? At one stage what is now the second GAA pitch was the headquarters of the most prestigious team. It then moved to Turners Cross. Afterwards it moved to what is now the...

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I will rewrite my speech.

Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hopefully the Minister will be decentralised to Tipperary.

Seanad: Report of National Advisory Committee on Drugs: Statements (Resumed). (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: This is an important issue, although I see it differently from other people. We must focus on where this is a problem and keep a perspective on the general issue of the use of illegal substances. Some communities have been devastated by one particular drug but a significant proportion of our young people are at least occasional users of an entirely different drug. However politically...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We certainly have.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator should name a few names.