Results 101-120 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Taoiseach agus tá súil agam go gcuirfidh sé fíorfáilte roimh pé tacaíocht gur féidir linn a thabhairt dó sna cainteanna a bheidh ag tosnú. I congratulate my colleague, Senator Maurice Hayes, whom I am sure will be a distinguished and excellent chairman. As my remarks will, of necessity, be brief, some nuances may be missing. The last time I spoke on Northern...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I thought the debate was over.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Leader is now making a speech on the same topic.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: They leave because they cannot afford a house.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: This is the Senator's single transferable speech.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Voodoo economics.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Like the Government did for the last two years.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Not being able to afford a house is an emotional subject.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Government going to stop those grants?

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Government is keeping people out of housing.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: That is what will happen.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Does that still exist? I thought the Government had abandoned it.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Government will not move to the left in any case.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister should look at the rest of Europe.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The Senator says that like nobody else.

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: This has been a night of revelations for me. The first is that Fianna Fáil seems to have discovered that the building industry has been ripping off the nation for 20 years when in fact it is the number one conspirator in allowing it to happen. The party allowed those who fund it – and keep members in the style to which they are accustomed – to rip off the nation and it has done so...

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The supply of building land presents a problem, but, yet again, it is the supporters of Fianna Fáil who are sitting on it. They hope to get rid of the present appalling provision, as they see it, for social and affordable housing in order that they can maximise their returns from land they will not now sell to provide housing for those who desperately need it. There is a solution to which...

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: We thought they had some influence with the Government— (Interruptions.)

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Finally, a Chathaoirligh, they have realised they were spending like social democrats and taxing like Tories and got caught after the general election. Now they are behaving like the Tories they are. Not only will they do social damage with the current Estimates, they will also cause enormous economic damage. They will set the country back five years by ideological nonsense— ...

Seanad: Housing Grants: Motion. (20 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: —based entirely on protecting the vanity of the Minister for Finance. Amendment put. Tá