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Seanad: Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)

David Norris: I, too, welcome the Minister of State to the House. I wish to make some comments on this Bill, which I welcome and I wish the road safety authority success. There has not been a glorious history of success in this area. The Government has been confronted by the resignation of Eddie Shaw who addressed the Joint Committee on Transport of which I was a member. He was fairly trenchant in his...

Seanad: Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)

David Norris: "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on." I cannot recall the verse but I understand the Chair's admonishment and the reason for it. The road safety authority is to be welcomed. The primary aim must be to make Irish road users respect the law. In order for that to happen, we must give them laws they can respect because this is not the case at present. Many of the laws are a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: I second the amendment proposed by Senator Ross. I share these concerns, especially about the arrogance of Mr. Blair to which Senator Ross referred, and the fact that he pre-empted a report he commissioned. He announced a decision before he had received the report, a curious way of behaving. I ask the Leader about the fate of the insurance Bill promised to groups such as the Irish Haemophilia...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: On the subject of technology, I received a curious circular from the Cathaoirleach about the prohibition of Blackberries in this House. Is it intended to extend this to cover raspberries also?

Seanad: Ageism Policy: Statements. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: As someone who has almost reached the age of 62, I have a vested interest in this issue.

Seanad: Ageism Policy: Statements. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: I feel a certain sense of triumph at my survival to this age, although I have reached the point where I review death notices with increasing interest. I pay tribute not only to the agencies mentioned in the Minister of State's speech but also to Age Concern, with which I have worked, on its efforts to inform the general public. I have noticed that men seem to die very soon after retirement,...

Seanad: Energy Strategy: Motion. (17 May 2006)

David Norris: This motion is very timely. It addresses one of the burning issues of the day in a non-aggressive, non-confrontational way and I do not understand why every Member of this House cannot support it as originally placed on the Order Paper. It states: "That Seanad Éireann recognises the need to develop a national energy strategy that will address Ireland's over-dependence on oil and replace it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: No.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: In the comments on the situation in St. Patrick's Cathedral, although the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Garda Commissioner have been widely congratulated, there has been no mention of the dean and staff of the cathedral. I compliment them on the sensitive and Christian way in which they behaved. I regret that they were fairly strongly sidelined at a particular point,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: There is one gentleman who is openly boasting that he has not let one person in.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: In that case, I will take the Cathaoirleach's good advice and seek a debate where we can make such points and also point out that, unusually, there is no publication of these decisions or the reasons for them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: I agree with Senator O'Toole that those of us who have consistently opposed the war in Iraq should find some dignified way of making this clear to Mr. Howard, who apparently has learned nothing from the lessons his Government should have learned from its disgraceful and immoral involvement in the disfoliation of the defenceless country of East Timor. Of course, that will not cause any...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: There is clear prima facie evidence of this and yet——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: ——our Government is responding——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: ——not by criticising but by opposing giving Taiwan observer status at the UN.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: The Senator can have my place because I will not be going.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

David Norris: Myself and Senator Ryan.