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Seanad: Mental Health Commission Report 2005: Statements (19 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I thank Senator Browne for sharing his time with me. This is an important opportunity for us to make statements and express views on the sensitive topic of mental health. In the old days, people with mental difficulties were regarded as a pariah group. We should look with gratitude to that great figure, Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, who founded St. Patrick's Hospital. He made...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: He was very factual.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I support the calls for a debate on salmon drift net fishing. I raised this matter previously, as have other Members, over many years. We know, for example, that the Government previously received scientific advice which it did not accept. The situation on fish stocks is now regarded as catastrophic, according to an independent group headed by Professor Tom Collins which has made a clear...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Which fireworks?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I too welcome the Minister of State, who made a very energetic and useful contribution to the debate on this subject by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on 10 October. I would like to pick up on one or two things said there. One significant matter perhaps not yet mentioned in this debate was the Government suggestion that the committee be renamed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Seanad: White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: What about training people in this country?

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: They are not.

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I would also like to compliment my colleague, Senator O'Toole, on tabling this motion. I know the Senator and Senator Brian Hayes have been pushing this matter. When I was considering it myself, I thought I had struck it lucky because I found something that was so absurd it would grab the attention of the House. Senator O'Toole beat me to it. I am referring to this extraordinary and...

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I stand corrected. Regardless of whether the introduction was 2006, it will not be put in place yet anyway. Cynically, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, got a transitional arrangement agreement under which construction works for which planning permission was sought on or before June 30 last are exempt provided they are substantially completed by...

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: They certainly do.

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Could they not be employed building better houses?

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)

David Norris: Why do we have to buy carbon credits?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

David Norris: What?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

David Norris: I normally agree with Senator Morrissey on transport issues but I was astonished to hear him describe the flotation of Aer Lingus as a success. If the Government wanted to privatise it why did it frustrate Willie Walsh's attempts to take it over? In the process it lost the business leadership whose lack Senator Morrissey bewails this morning. The Government has got itself into this...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)

David Norris: That was the point I was coming to. The motion addresses all the problems. The Government has commissioned reports and so on but has never once taken the scientific advice or implemented the conclusions. Ministers have come into this House and been evasive and economical with the truth and suggested they took on board some of the reports but they have never implemented their...