Results 2,781-2,800 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Hear, hear. I could not agree more.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Yes, definitely.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: The children.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: What about Guy Fawkes?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Ignite child and retire.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Since these sections deal with ASBOs, is it possible to take them together?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I will speak on all of them if I may and we will take it from there as these sections amount to a package of measures. I have some difficulty with the question of anti-social behaviour orders, ASBOs. I recognise that there are unpleasant circumstances in which people, especially old age pensioners and single mothers, have come under a lot of pressure from gangs of young louts. It is not just...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I am thinking of central Dublin where one sees people with cans all the time yet nobody does anything about it. These people sit on steps having been to the local off-licence, the Polish pub or wherever else. They misbehave considerably, especially in an insanitary fashion which I will not describe fully in this House, immediately after consuming all this booze. This type of situation is...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Can the police enforce them?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: For one horrible moment I thought the Minister had resurrected some shocking misdemeanour of my own.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Will the Minister indicate if those by-laws are enforceable by the Garda?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I thank the Minister. I will do my best to ensure that they are. We already have a solution to that problem without resorting to ASBOs. The Taoiseach was quite right when he stated the Bill is fairly draconian. The section relating to people engaging in offensive conduct in public is a similar situation. What constitutes offensive conduct is any unreasonable behaviour which may, with regard...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I will provide the Minister with another term he may use, "invincible ignorance". How about that? There is a good old fashioned ring to it. I believe a child-centred, preventative policy would be better. If we are to learn from the experience in Great Britain, a significant problem with ASBOs has been the fact that, unusually, the names and addresses of under-age people are released by the...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: That was a criminal offence, it was stolen car. This is where this issue gets very blurred.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Driving a stolen car is surely an offence.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I knew it.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I may be quite bald but the Minister could not say there is much of a point on my head.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Would they have stopped the car driving into Senator Tuffy's wall?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: I am not a little person. Look at me.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
David Norris: Such things are not unknown in my life but I put up with them.