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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. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: As I have already informed the Leader, we will not agree to the Order of Business. The Leader's position on this has been entirely honourable and I am not accusing her of anything else. When we discussed this informally last week, the Leader, other Members and I were under the impression this was a simple Bill to deal with the possible extinguishing of large numbers of planning permissions by...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: No. The Leader suggested that all Stages be completed by 2 o'clock today.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I propose that we commence Committee Stage and do no more than that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: On the Order of Business, the Leader has proposed that all Stages be taken today. If I agree to the Order of Business, I am agreeing that all Stages be taken today and I do not agree to that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Yes. Apart from that I want to raise two brief issues.

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: Order of Business. (12 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I support the comments of Senator Brian Hayes. The tragedy in County Monaghan is of a scale and intensity that deserves an immediate explanation. We have a flawed system of waiting for the conclusions of a detailed investigation in order to defuse the issue. We should be made aware immediately of the information the Minister and the relevant health board have to hand. If there are gaps or...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I am delighted everybody is now of the view that we should appoint a Garda ombudsman, an idea first put forward by my party approximately two years ago.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Not for the first time Senator Norris's wit gets in the way of the facts. I was a member of the party at the time.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: My party produced the detailed proposals for it. If all the people who agreed with my party voted for it, I would probably be sitting in the Leader's seat.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Leader would be sitting in my place. We like to discuss many things that happen in the world. There is something particularly offensive about the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority being refused permission to attend mass in Bethlehem on Christmas Day. I suggest that the leaders of all the groups in the House sign a motion to be passed without debate tomorrow morning calling on the...