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Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I would suspect the cat.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: They are a slippery couple, those Soaps.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: What shape is his head?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: That is rubbish.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister is torturing logic and he knows it.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister should be careful. He should not say anything about being attacked by a person carrying a knife when he was in Australia or Nigeria.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The same people said exactly the same to me after the Government's reception at the time of the publication of the report of the constitutional review committee.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: If the Minister calls me an effete once more, I'll sue him.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: No, I wish to comment on what the Minister said.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Yes, but the Minister has had a pretty good innings. What he said was delightful and I enjoyed every bit of it. The Minister may be suffering from short-term memory loss and he should apply to my colleague, Senator Henry, for treatment because he might have otherwise remembered that on Second Stage I referred to the good behaviour contract clauses in a positive light and I said I would oppose...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Yes, but that professor referred to the whole situation. The Minister has rubbished such views. The general burden of the case the Minister made in the beginning was that persons like ourselves could get an injunction but other persons could not. He is absolutely right and I agree with him. Is that calamitous situation not a catastrophic criticism of the legal process here? We pose as people...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Clearly it is not working.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister made the point that persons of a certain level of education and privilege have the opportunity to get an injunction and that other people are disbarred from doing so either through their social conditions, intellectual inadequacy, poverty or ignorance. If this is the case, it is surely a criticism of the system.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I detect a slight swelling of the head.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister is turning into a pointy head.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister has successfully shifted the goalposts. The law is patently not being implemented in respect of drinking, which is a genuinely anti-social issue. One can walk down any street in the centre of Dublin and see people sitting on footpaths and boozing away to their hearts' content. I sympathise with Senator Tuffy. It must have been a horrible experience having a car driven at her...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: It did not sound like that to me. Everyone experiences sleepless nights. It was a very emotional argument which gave the impression that this situation could be cured or ameliorated in some way by an ASBO when it is obvious that this is nonsense. I do not care what shape Senator Tuffy's head is. I do not care what shape the Minister's head is or whether it was growing a point earlier like...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I would have thought it possible to prosecute someone for stealing a car. Perhaps it is all right in Senator Tuffy's area.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Does this happen when one's neighbours drive a car into one's property? If that was the case, I would definitely move. Senator Tuffy should move to North Great Georges Street.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I welcome and am not at all surprised that the Minister is speaking so strongly on this issue. The House is united behind him in that context. There are other circumstances in hospitals, for example, where members of gangs who have been shot are placed under armed guard, which exposes nurses without any increase in remuneration in terms of danger money or special insurance. They are placed in...