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Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Since I do not believe in discrimination on age grounds I am quite happy to defer to the senior citizens behind me on this occasion. I support Senator Hayes on the issue of the report of the Ombudsman. The delays by the Revenue contrast with the Taoiseach's attitude in the Dáil yesterday to the question of tax exiles who take large sums of money out of the State.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: No. Senator Hayes did not move an amendment to the Order of Business on the issue of the Ombudsman. He asked the Leader about it. I leave the rail issue to my colleagues. I ask the Leader for debate on a number of issues while there is not huge pressure of business. The first issue is that of privatisation on which the Leader is a national authority. The recent success of the ESB in America...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: On the issue of race and immigration, we not only have an input but an obligation and a responsibility. I would like for us to debate the issues of race, immigration and attitudes to it within and without politics. It badly needs to be restated that the rest of us do not approve and reward such behaviour.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Can they be made chairman of a committee if they have transgressed?

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Fianna Fáil wants to bury the Flood Tribunal.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: It is.

Seanad: Social Welfare Benefits: Motion. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá aithne againn ar ár gcéile le níos mó blianta ná a theastódh leis an Aire go luafaí iad ach tá sí níos óige ná mise agus mar sin is féidir trácht a dhéanamh orthu.

Seanad: Social Welfare Benefits: Motion. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Warped it may be but I have been called worse, so I will live with that. The driving force behind this was the profound reluctance of the previous Government to provide proper child care facilities. Let us look at the numbers. The level of what the Irish establishment, epitomised by the present Government, believes to be an adequate income is the sort of figure which, in most of our newspaper...

Seanad: Social Welfare Benefits: Motion. (6 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I would not boast about that since that happened because more people were at work. Of course we welcome that fact. The impetus for the growth in employment started before the previous Government came into office. Given the práiseach it made of the public finances over the last year, I suspect that impetus will grind to a halt quite rapidly because of its inability to realise that society and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the Leader to the Opposition benches. She did a wonderful job this morning tearing a strip off the Minister for Transport. If the rest of us used the language she used—

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Leader deserves to be complimented on her wonderful role as Leader of the Opposition.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: There are two tribunal reports which have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, the interim report of the Flood tribunal and the report of the Lindsay tribunal. These tribunals were set up by orders of the Oireachtas and while I can perhaps attribute political motives to the lack of debate on the Flood tribunal, one could argue that the Lindsay tribunal dealt with far more...

Seanad: Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Why does the Senator think I sit here and not in front of him?

Seanad: Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I was too young to be in the Independent group. They represent the senior Members of the Opposition benches.

Seanad: Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Time is moving at the speed of light.

Seanad: Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: To be fair, even if I am not legally obliged, I declare an interest in that I am married to a consultant psychiatrist. That informs and, to a certain degree, inhibits me, though over the past 20 years I have raised the issue of conditions in our mental hospitals, sometimes in colourful terms. I speak from my own knowledge and not through anything I acquired from my spouse.

Seanad: Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements. (7 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State can rely on me.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (12 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Bhí aithne agam ar Dick Hourigan. Bhíomar le chéile sa Tigh seo ar feadh roinnt blianta agus bhí cairdeas eadrainn. Chaitheamar cuid mhaith ama trasna an bhóthair i dtigh ósta nach dtabharfaidh mé ainm air. Dick Hourigan made many efforts to explain farming to me, particularly late at night. I would not be recognised as the most sympathetic commentator on the ups and downs of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: At 5 p.m.? The Leader is joking.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I thank Senator Norris for reminding me about the meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I had forgotten the time had moved on and I may not be here to hear the Leader's entirely reasonable replies to my questions. I would like the Leader to tell us why we have no motion on the Flood tribunal and why we have one on the Lindsay tribunal, a sycophantic motion which, among other things,...