Results 121-140 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: On the Order of Business, can the Leader tell me when the Report Stage of the Digital Hub Development Agency Bill will be taken or is it still uncertain? It is ordered for next Tuesday, but I understand—

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: It is ordered for next Tuesday. That does not matter. The Leader can let me know some other time. An bhfuil aon scéal faoi Bhille na dteangacha oifigiúla atá ar an gclár le sé seachtain anois agus nár luadh fós? Tá an Bille um inimirce ar an gclár le tamall fada chomh maith agus gan aon dul chun cinn déanta air. An bhféadfadh an Ceannaire eolas a thabhairt don Teach mar gheall ar...

Seanad: Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Up to 35% of the population according to one report.

Seanad: Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Untrue.

Seanad: Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: What about the PRSI?

Seanad: Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: How much time do I have?

Seanad: Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements. (21 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: In deference to the Chair's indulgence, I probably will not take the ten minutes. I do not want to go into the details of the Estimates again because my colleague, Senator McDowell, did so with both a skill and an expertise that I would not have. The fundamental debate taking place here – I note it is taking place inside Fianna Fáil with considerable vigour – is about the position on the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I have no problem with the Order of Business. I am somewhat reluctant to support Senator Hayes in regard to No. 2. I read the High Court judgment on the Abbeylara inquiry and it did not make great reading for Members of the Oireachtas. There was a succession of mistakes made and we would need to be well advised before we return to the area again. First, we must get the constitutional and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I raise an issue which relates to, as always, the spectacularly empty Press Gallery. Is it time to find some other use for it because it is never used for its intended purpose?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Three issues that were raised first in the House and perhaps in the Lower House were run as major news items by the media a week or six months later. Senator Higgins raised the question of the refusal of permission to Amnesty International to conduct an inquiry in our prisons. This was reported on in today's newspapers as having been raised in both Houses a week ago, yet the media did not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I would like the Leader to raise the issue with the Minister for Transport who, in turn, should raise it with Iarnród Éireann. It is an absolute disgrace.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: On a historical note, if a coalition Government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party had not introduced overseas development aid, Fianna Fáil would never have thought of it. It did not believe in it 25 years ago when introduced, it had no interest in it. Let us have no lectures, therefore, from the other side of the House about people's values. Unfortunately, there is no political gain in this...

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: It was cut this year.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (27 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: I fully support Senator O'Toole's request for a debate on the national spatial plan. This would be very usefully debated today. It is important to remember that many Members of this House are elected local representatives serving on county councils or city councils. They therefore have a particular reason to be concerned about issues like this. A spatial plan is of course extremely important,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: No, the public sector, like the whole trade union movement—

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: The public sector, like the whole trade union movement, has always supported the vital interests of agriculture. The reverse is not the case and it is time the farmers learnt that we live in a mutually dependent society—

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Nov 2002)

Brendan Ryan: They should lay off the public sector.