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Seanad: National Development Plan Mid-Term Evaluation: Statements. (5 Nov 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I suppose having a national development plan is better than not having one. That is a positive note on which to start. I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically agree with Senator Morrissey that it appears that our national capacity to manage projects is more akin to a Third World country than a country that has aspirations to be a leader of the modern technological revolution. This morning I...

Seanad: Insurance Industry Reform: Motion. (5 Nov 2003)

Brendan Ryan: It breaks my heart to disappoint Senator Leyden.

Seanad: Insurance Industry Reform: Motion. (5 Nov 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after " businesses today;" and substitute the following: –Notes that only 20 of the 67 recommendations of the Motor Insurance Advisory Board have so far been implemented by the Government, –Notes that all other legislation promised has been delayed in spite of many promises, –Notes that the Government has so far failed to bring any real...

Seanad: Insurance Industry Reform: Motion. (5 Nov 2003)

Brendan Ryan: A bit like Senator Leyden himself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I sympathise with Senator Brian Hayes's travails in the traffic. I note the NRA met with a committee of the Oireachtas yesterday and said, yet again, it could not impose performance criteria on the West Link bridges because of the way the contract was written. In light of what we have heard here about the demands for performance appraisal from public servants and the demand that their...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: The NRA is not obliged to.

Seanad: National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: We, as Members, should value having a debate in this House on something as potentially controversial as the Hanly report. We should not turn it into a replica of the kind of debate one might have in the Dáil. I do not wish to cast any aspersions on the other House, but it sometimes seems to have more heat than light in its debates, perhaps because of the more intense political conflict. It...

Seanad: European Convention/Intergovernmental Conference: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Minister. He and I have had many a debate, both public and private, about many issues, and his appointment was welcome. The best man for the job was without a doubt appointed by the Taoiseach. His enthusiasm for this whole project and other qualifications and skills have been put to good effect. We were well served in this country by those who worked on our behalf at the...

Seanad: European Convention/Intergovernmental Conference: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: —will know that it had become entirely impossible, and the choice was between this and stasis. There was no way another major revision of the European treaties could ever have been envisaged by way of further amendment. Even trying to read the Nice treaty led one back to the Amsterdam treaty and so on. They came one after another, and it became utterly impossible. One would actually need a...

Seanad: European Convention/Intergovernmental Conference: Statements. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Whose side was he on?

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: By some unsavoury people.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I hope the Senator is not looking at me.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Clearing up Charlie Haughey's mess.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Bill and the Minister's acceptance of the principle behind it. With regard to the fact that he believes it would need substantial amendment, it has been my experience in the Houses that many Departments were not inhibited from introducing legislation which, following Second Stage, required major amendments – even after the entire expertise of the Civil Service and the...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Those opposite made a fine mess of things during the past 18 months and they are working hard to ensure that there will be no improvement for some time. I will pass over Senator Jim Walsh's rather peculiar remarks about Garret FitzGerald. I will leave it to the ordinary—

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: —decent citizens of this country to decide who they feel, Garret FitzGerald or Charles J. Haughey—

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I know what ordinary citizens think.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: No, the Senator suggested a moral equivalence between the performance of Dr. FitzGerald's Government and the corruption of his former party leader.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: It is not true. One was a man of impeccable integrity while the other was a crook and a liar and took donations from everybody who called to his house.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (22 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I did not begin this debate.