Results 5,021-5,040 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: On a far more serious note, I agree with Senator O'Toole. My experience of that particular Department concerns two successive years in the 1980s when an educational tour to Ireland by a secondary school in Britain was almost disrupted because two of the 15 year old pupils were refused visitors' visas to come here by the Department of Justice. They were 15 year old Asians who were coming here...
- Seanad: Israel-Palestine: Motion. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: I want to be entirely constructive for a number of reasons, first, because this motion is of such importance nobody should play politics with it in any way, and I would not dream of doing that, and, second, I have considerable regard for the Minister's efforts in this area and am aware of the considerable influence he has, at least for the next six months in particular. I hope an attempt will...
- Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: Quite right.
- Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: It is good that the Taoiseach apologised. However, he apologised on behalf of the State and everyone within it. We were all, therefore, encompassed by his apology. To claim that the apology was made on behalf of the Government is to undermine its significance. Before we made our first communion, we were informed that saying one was sorry without being prepared to take the necessary steps was...
- Seanad: Third Interim Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: ââI would inquire as to why a huge legal bill would not be in the interests of the survivors, particularly if it was necessary to allow them to be heard. Why do we discuss matters of this nature when it comes to the most vulnerable? When the National Roads Authority struck a deal with farmers to compensate them for their land, nobody said that we could not do so because of the enormous...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: The Minister can get here quickly enough when he wants to.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: I asked that they be reversed.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: I agree totally with Senator Brian Hayes's point regarding electronic voting systems. If Members opposite are interested, I will show them the websites where they can read reports on failures of the new electronic voting systems used in the United States since the last presidential election. There is documented evidence in this regard. Unless one knows nothing about computers, one knows they...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)
Brendan Ryan: This is a case of running away from people. There was sufficient money saved in January to cover the 16 savage cuts in social welfare introduced by the Minister, Deputy Coughlan. Last January alone would have paid for them. An assault on the poor is being carried out to win an election. I agree with Senator O'Toole about the prisons. It is an absolute disgrace that Fintan Lane was in jail for...
- Seanad: Recognition of the Irish Language: Motion. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: Caithfear a bheith cúramach nuair a moltar rún i gceachtar Teach den Oireachtas go bhfuil ainmneacha ceannairà na ngrúpaà go léir curtha leis. Ar an ocáid seo, glacaim go bhfuil muid go léir i ndáirÃre agus nach bhfuil gnÃomhaÃocht ciniciúil i gceist mar gheall ar na hainmneacha atá leis an rún. AithnÃm ón chleachtadh atá agam leo agus ón mhéid oibre agus an méid atá...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: On the Order of Business, has there been any progress on Committee Stage of the Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002? This extremely important legislation has been on our Order Paper for so long that, if it were a Private Members' motion, it might almost have dropped off by now. There are also several other pieces of legislation which have not yet been introduced or debated on Second Stage. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: I will not be involved in pretending to reform a House that is so ignored by people with more power than it could ever imagine.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: There was no debate on that resolution. It was a Government proposal.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: It was passed without debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: Their capital is secure.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: I thought the Senator was about to call for a debate on undocumented immigrants here.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: If the Senator attended union meetings he would know all about their internal workings.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: Does he attend meetings? If he did, he would know what is going on.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (21 Jan 2004)
Brendan Ryan: Like Senator Ross, I had the good fortune to be a Member of this House when Pat Joe Reynolds was Cathaoirleach. I had the misfortune perhaps to be suspended under his auspices on at least one occasion. When one considers what Senator Ross has just said I must have severely provoked the man and while I cannot recall the circumstances of my suspension, I am now certain that he was right and I...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Dec 2003)
Brendan Ryan: In The Irish Times today, the President of the European Commission, in an interview, states that any country that does not ratify the next treaty will have to leave the Union. He says that one cannot allow one country to hold up the progress of 25. I thought the bedrock of the European Union and the reason we all were comfortable with it was that nothing could be done dramatically against our...