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Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They could be opened tomorrow if they were properly funded. Many of them would be opened by now were it not for the health cuts in 2002.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Is the OECD making up its figures?

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They are facing similar pressures. They are not the same. There are no waiting lists in some health systems.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is affected by ministerial ideology as well, particularly the daft ideology of the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He should withdraw that.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He must unequivocally withdraw that, or he will get no peace from me today.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They were switched off.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I know where this is going.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Deputy Leader should visit the River Lee on a fine summer's evening.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is wonderful to see the Fianna Fáil Party rediscovering its capacity to stand up to the minority that has been running its business for the past five years. We on this side of the House offer it our full support as it rediscovers its clout. Yesterday in Istanbul, the President of the United States, for the second time in two days, attempted to interfere with the internal business of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Social democracy is coming out in Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Nobody will answer the telephone.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I was otherwise engaged.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It was raised with me.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He is not creating a fuss about many other issues.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Many of us do not want to meet him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: If only the trade unions were in charge.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: A member of Cork City Council who is not a member of my party came across a line of clamped cars recently in an area where signs indicating that there was no parking were not in evidence and where there were no double yellow lines etc. When he volunteered to photograph the clampers while they removed the clamps and innocent citizens paid up, the clampers promptly took off the clamps and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It has been a long time since Fianna Fáil and that ethos overlapped, not to mention coincided.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: By definition, I was raised a long time ago. Would it be possible to have a serious debate on the issue of equality at some stage? There has been an outbreak of compassion on the opposite side of the House which has, in turn, produced an outbreak of self-righteous rhetoric from the minor party in Government. Some of that rhetoric deserves to be debated within a political forum in which people...