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

Brendan Ryan: I accept—

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

Brendan Ryan: What am I withdrawing, a Chathaoirligh?

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

Brendan Ryan: May I go and obtain a copy of what the relevant tribunal said about him?

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

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps the Cathaoirleach will reprimand us both.

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

Brendan Ryan: No names were mentioned.

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

Brendan Ryan: If something I said was in breach of the rules of the House – I do not know what it was that I said because no one will tell me—

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

Brendan Ryan: —I will withdraw it. However, I will simply make one positive statement that Garret FitzGerald was perhaps the most honourable, ethical Taoiseach this country ever had.

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

Brendan Ryan: I have great respect for the Cathaoirleach. If he believes that I cannot say that about the person in question, I withdraw it.

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

Brendan Ryan: I have finished.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: The issue raised by my two colleagues is perhaps the most serious that has confronted this country for quite some time. I want to elaborate a little on how we need to take this issue seriously. I do not want to make a political speech. I will not mention the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform but I want to remind this House of what it was like, say, 20 years ago at the height of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: They do not have a vote.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: They had the resources to do it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: The Government broke EU rules.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I will leave it to my colleague, Senator McDowell, to deal with the issues relating to our motion tonight. I know he will encourage the Leader to be—

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I anticipate that people might comment on my not mentioning it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps the Leader could extend it to everybody, or perhaps my colleague, who is after all the author of the report, could be allowed perhaps 20 minutes to explain the background to it.

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: There are a number of reasons for somebody based 160 miles from Dublin intervening in this debate, as I am doing now. For a variety of reasons over the last year, I have had to drive to Dublin virtually every week and, as a result, I have come to realise that Dublin's traffic is in an appalling mess. When I was a child living in south Kildare, when most cars could not exceed 40 mph and the...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: How far does one have to go to be unhelpful to road users in doing things like that?

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion. (15 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I go around the M50 sometimes in desperation, trying to avoid coming in on the main, direct route. Therefore, I enter the M50, turn right and come in through Templeogue. On the main road from Clondalkin to the M50 roundabout there is a big sign telling one to take the right-hand lane if turning right, that is, going to the M50. Once in that lane, one discovers that the construction of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: Can I ask the Leader if we can have a debate on the apparent near-collapse of public use of the Freedom of Information Act 1997? There has been a reduction of 53% in the number of applications made under the Act since the Government emasculated it, in effect, in these Houses earlier this year. It would be very appropriate for this House to examine the Act and to invite the Government to...