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Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: And poles.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It looks as though I will be in possession again next week.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It is like a relay race.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Seán Power, to the House. I will have sufficient time to finish a point which I believe to have some practical application and which comes from my own limited experience of hospitals. I have had some difficulties with my prostate which obliged me to be taken into hospital for an examination. It is a fairly...

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: If I may finish the point, I was not encouraged on my way into the hospital by listening to a radio programme which discussed the prostatectomy operation and reported that among the fairly common side effects were impotence and incontinence. I am not sure how true that is but patients need the truth. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. I look forward to continuing the debate on the...

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I am afraid so.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Members should all stop squawking.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senator Henry.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Members have just witnessed a fairly unedifying spectacle. However, it is to be expected because we are in the run up to an election. All the parties, along with some of the Independents, are trying to offer more to the electorate and accuse others of racism and xenophobia. It is all totally and pathetically irrelevant. It is perfectly obvious that this House is being used. I was astonished...

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Yes. How long remains?

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Very well. If I had children with someone I loved——

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: ——I would want to spend as much time with them as possible. I would prefer that to commuting in the car. What of the plight of the children of refugees and asylum seekers? I heard a radio discussion on this point today and they are expected to survive on €9 per week, even to buy nappies. We should consider the entire picture and not indulge in an election fest.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: No, it was stated that they were xenophobic.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the remarks of Senators Brian Hayes and Mooney on the Shot at Dawn Campaign and congratulate them on raising it in the appropriate forum, namely, the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body meeting. They have done some extremely important work. I must take an assertiveness course, because I raised this issue first. I raised it consistently over——

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It does not matter. The most important thing is to get something done about it. As I have noted previously in the House, the New Zealand Government really put this issue on the agenda. It not only exonerated its own troops but honoured them publically. These poor creatures were slaughtered for reasons like refusing to put on a wet filthy cap in the middle of a bombardment. It was a disgrace...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Name and shame. The Senator should provide Members with the name.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: This was a sly insinuation, as the Senator is perfectly aware.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Could the Cathaoirleach explain what I just heard? Was it a cuckoo?

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: What is wrong with revisionism?