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Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: This is a very serious issue and it needed to be explained. However, these will be very brief.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: That is not like the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I would like the Minister for Foreign Affairs to come here and explain to us the Government's position on the hijacking of the Iraqi arms dossier by the United States. United States officials are the only people to have the full dossier and apparently they are editing it before it is given to anybody else. The Minister for Foreign Affairs should explain our role on the Security Council, if...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: There will be three hours for Committee Stage and I presume the Leader knows Committee Stage has more than—

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Leader does not seem to understand the procedures of the House. Committee Stage deals with the entire Bill and not just our amendments.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: People in glass houses—

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Yes. Amendment put. Tá

Seanad: Primary Education: Motion. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: In supporting the motion tabled by my colleagues in Fine Gael I am anxious not to behave like a typical Opposition Member bashing the Government for the numerous things it has not done. It is particularly difficult to bash the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Brian Lenihan, because of his agreeable nature, similar to that of his late father and aunt, who is...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise to the Minister for not being present for his opening remarks but I have read them. I am always intrigued by our society and its peculiar choices. It is well known that the building industry has been on strike over this legislation and every local authority says there is a refusal to build houses in substantial numbers because builders do not like what has happened. All property...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The social housing groups have said it would take 30 years to end local authority waiting lists. They held a press conference yesterday, but they did not wave this Bill around and say it was a major contribution to their problems. Let us not get involved in selective quoting. I had a similar experience with the Minister when he held a different portfolio in the previous Dáil. He quoted...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: They are the same people who, in their property owning capacity, did not like rent allowance. Fianna Fáil is capping rent allowance and will create further homelessness in a society that is besmirched by homeless people in every street. At the same time, Fianna Fáil will change the law of this land to make those who are already vulgarly rich even richer at the expense of people who cannot...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should try it some time. It would do him good.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I do not need lectures from the Minister about the needs of people for social housing. I have been debating this issue since before he was a Member of either House; it is the reason I am here. I do not need lectures from the Minister and I am tired of them. I ask him to lay off and talk about something else.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Like the Minister, I do not agree with the dual mandate.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage. (10 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Favours will be called in also.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I agree with Senators Brian Hayes and O'Toole on this occasion. In the institutes of technology sector, in which I work, the number of students has doubled in the last ten years, the number of administrative staff has increased by an even greater factor and the number of lecturers has gone up by 10%. The result is extraordinary and the same is true in many areas of public service provision....

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Cuts are suggested in child care provision, child benefit and housing, while increases in third level fees are proposed. I say without reservation that the report represents a set of perspectives and priorities which reflect the experiences of the people who wrote it. Is it the Government's intention to raise third level fees to €1,000 next year? That is the one recommendation in the report...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I can only surmise that the discussions in Government Buildings are going very well given that Senator O'Toole is in such good humour. He must have sorted out IBEC about which, speaking as another trade unionist, I would be delighted. The newspapers and the media generally are making us increasingly aware of the significance of the Convention on the Future of Europe. It is quite clear that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: And Prionsias De Rossa.

Seanad: Budget Statement: Motion. (4 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.