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Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We could solve a problem, if it exists, by a process of consensus and agreement, which would eliminate the risk so eloquently described by Senator Minihan last night of a debate degenerating into something most unpleasant and untoward. We could still refer the question of a proper definition of citizenship to the same committee that was able to deal expeditiously and efficiently with the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have not shifted all my life; it is Fianna Fáil that moved. In the process of rediscovering itself, perhaps it could look at the other 15 cuts and in particular, given the daft notions that emanate from the Minister for Education and Science occasionally, it could look at the back to education allowance and its effective destruction as an encouragement to those from underprivileged...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Leyden should sit down.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Senator Leyden should sit down.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Some 94% of people voted for it.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I rarely use phrases such as "more in sorrow than in anger". However, I think it is an appropriate phrase here. The Minister makes a coherent case for dealing with what he believes to be a problem. It is no more than I would expect. He puts together a coherent constitutional legal case for dealing with the problem and he identifies anomalous issues in the Good Friday Agreement, using those to...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Yes, it mentioned all-party discussions would be initiated on the issue of such constitutional or other measures. The all-party consultations for a referendum that was not going to be held on 17 February commenced with a briefing document stating what the Government wanted to do on 10 March. Now on 7 April, these all-party discussions having presumably concluded, we are told the Government...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He is the least principled Member of Dáil Éireann. He is not disgusting, he just has no principles.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: He is not disgusting. He has no principles.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I leave it to the Members of this House to decide what adjective to apply to a man who was at the bottom of an opinion poll——

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Which one of them am I to withdraw, that he has no principles or that he is disgusting?

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I said he was not disgusting. It is probably too kind to call him disgusting. He is worse than that, but we will leave it out.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I am withdrawing as much about him as he withdrew about innocent asylum seekers, which is shag all.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I withdraw whatever adjective I used that people do not like.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I can write them all outside the House, anyway. It is an extraordinary fact that in here where I have privilege I cannot say the words that I have said frequently and in debate with this individual outside the House. However, I repeat that politics were demeaned in Cork by one individual in particular, who Fianna Fáil opinion polls showed was at the bottom of their three-candidate league...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It is not sour grapes. The Senator should consult his own constituency colleague. Fianna Fáil private polls show that this man jumped from the bottom of the polls to the top.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The Taoiseach made this man Chairman of an Oireachtas committee. Whatever the innocence of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform — God help me, after all the years I do not believe he is intent on using race — not for the first time since going into Government with Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats has been conned into a position which it must now defend. If we have a...

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Citizenship Rights for Non-Nationals: Motion (7 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That Deputy signed up as well.