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Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I ask the Senator to stop chirruping away; he will get his opportunity in a couple of minutes.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I will give Senator Kenneally all the details and documents. I would have no difficulty in doing so. They are facts in black and white. We know it. There is no point in denying it. Why is the Minister of State in denial? We know it perfectly well. We know that bass have been affected. One must look at the position in the case of cod. Were we not all on the same side when the people in...

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: We have no regulations. I am delighted to hear that the salmon take the weekends off. That is another scientific fact from Fianna Fáil. That is great. Do they have bank holidays off as well?

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I could not be bothered listening to that kind of tripe.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: That will be quite enough for me. There are other matters that should be addressed such as the lack of resources for monitoring this matter. I do not mean only monitoring our own people. If they are so innocent, why do they go without navigation lights when they are about this filthy, wasteful and profligate trade of monofilament and drift netting? Let us look at the foreign fishermen. We all...

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I will give the Minister the figures tomorrow.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It is not just what they catch. It is the amount of damage they do.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: And I am always patronised by the Senator.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: The Senator pays taxes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It seems there is only one issue before the House today, the tragic impact of the Ferns report. I hope that the decent faithful, as they call them in Ireland, will be able to separate the issues of their own faith from the scandalous behaviour of some of the officers of their church. I also hope that the decent priests, of whom there are many, do not get caught in the backlash. The people who...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: There is one final point I want to make specifically to this House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: This Parliament cravenly gave in to a situation where the churches — not just one — were exempted from the implications of the equality legislation.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Let us look at that again. Are these people, and is this organisation, fit to be given rights over and above every other institution to discriminate——

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: ——against citizens on the basis of what is described as their ethos? We must——

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: ——reopen this area.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Athlone International Airport.

Seanad: Suicide Prevention Strategy: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I am grateful to my colleague, Senator Cummins, for making some time available for me to make a couple of clear and specific points and recommendations. I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley, will bear them in mind and take them to his colleagues. This is a serious issue. Senators will be aware that committees of both Houses have looked at it in some detail and obtained expert...

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (26 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I have not pointed it out yet. It was the other Protestant, Tweedledee. We all look the same.