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Seanad: International Criminal Court Bill 2003: Second Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I welcome this Bill and there seems to be a general welcome for it. We have been waiting for legislation of this kind since the Nuremburg trials of the 1940s to which no doubt many other speakers have referred. It is useful to remind ourselves of the expression of principle given when the Rome Statute was adopted. It reads: The States Parties to this Statute. . . Affirming that the most...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I support Senator Maurice Hayes because the marching season is often fraught with tension, particularly for the minority community in Northern Ireland, and it shows maturity that they are talking to each other and that these contentious marches are being agreed. That is the way the community should go. Would the Leader request information from the Minister for Communications, Marine and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: And a good thing too.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Senator's concerns are parochial, he does not care a damn about the health service.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I move: That Seanad Éireann, in light of: —developments in Iraq; —the recent publication of the Council of Europe Report on CIA Rendition Flights; and —the confusion surrounding the legal status of any Garda attempt to investigate the nature of these flights, hereby calls for the establishment of the select committee on the use of Irish airports to investigate the use of Shannon by...

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: We have been named and shamed in the Marty report as being in "category A". We have been asked to do something about this by the human rights section of the United Nations, the Irish Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International — I could go on and on. The practices to which I have referred are gross in the extreme and I would like to put them, as determined by the Marty report, on the...

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I am happy to accept that but what I was referring to were statements made to me by members of the Senator's party stating their position.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I apologise but I was asked a direct question.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I accept that. I have no problem with that.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I appreciate that and I hope that this concern will be general throughout the Seanad. It was not at the beginning of the debate.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: That is a link that should be cut.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Yes, but I have 50,000 constituents——

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Absolutely.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Senator is correct.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Minister's scriptwriter has either deliberately or dishonestly missed the point on that.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I have not.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Minister had to add in the "high-value".

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Minister should talk to the two detective superintendents who were sent to see me by the Garda Commissioner.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I did no such thing. I demand that rubbish be withdrawn. Show where it is in the record. The Minister of State is a disgrace and represents a discredited Government.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Minister of State did not understand me or has deliberately misinterpreted me. He should withdraw his comment.