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Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Will the Acting Leader get some information and take some action on genetically modified food? On 7 September, EU Commissioners approved Monsanto's GT73 oilseed rape for use as animal feed despite opposition from 13 member states. While six member states voted for it, because of qualified majority voting and the abstention of countries such as Ireland, it went through undemocratically at the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

David Norris: I will not press the amendment today but I will next week. It is important this discussion is advanced. There is no reason it should be left until January. If I get an undertaking next week that it will be looked at as a matter of urgency, I will not be difficult and waste the House's time.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Nov 2005)

David Norris: We in this House and you, a Chathaoirligh, have often spoken about the need to maintain the dignity of the House. I commend the Leader who yesterday represented this establishment with extraordinary courage, patience and tolerance when she came under an onslaught from callers, some of whom were all right but some of whom were ignorant in the extreme in the personal grudge they had against the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: I am sure the House will agree — I speak not just as a member of the National Union of Journalists but as a human being — that it is remarkable a memorandum has now emerged clearly demonstrating that it took Tony Blair to persuade George Bush not to bomb the al-Jazeera studio in Qatar. The British are so worried about the memorandum that they have invoked section 5 of the Official Secrets...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Before the debate, I ask that democracy be instituted in this House. Instead of having this motion handed down from on high by people who are not elected to this House, with the names of Government Members to be added to it, this matter should be discussed by those Members. I ask them not to permit their names to be added to this motion, which would validate the use of Agent Orange and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: It is a disgrace to this House and should be withdrawn. Government Members should not allow their names to be attached with infamy to that amendment.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: I move: That Seanad Éireann concerned at the progress of the war in Iraq, and in light of recent revelations and admissions by the United States authorities: —condemns the use of chemical agents such as white phosphorus, MK77, by US forces; —expresses its revulsion at the discovery of 170 persons apparently victims of torture in the basement of the Iraqi Interior Ministry; —calls upon...

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Exactly.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Good man. The Senator has a conscience. I thank him for his comment.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Exactly.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Well spoken.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: It has seen us allow Shannon Airport be used during the Vietnam War to bring in Agent Orange and napalm.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: It has been done and nothing has happened.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: They are bloody hypocrites.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Victory?

Seanad: Iraq War: Motion. (23 Nov 2005)

David Norris: Nobody has named them. We have never been told who they were.