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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I was also attacked on another occasion. It is not funny. I am amazed Members find it entertaining that people get attacked. If they do find it entertaining, they are part of the problem. If they do not understand how serious it is to trivialise these situations, they are on the side of the attackers. At least, I did get stuck in.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: The point I was making was that many young people in this city take drugs like crack cocaine. One of my assailants was taking crack cocaine. I was walking down the boardwalk along the River Liffey last week when I saw three young lads smoking something in a glass pipe, which was obviously crack cocaine. People are afraid because those who take these drugs become out of control.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: He might yet, one never knows. Is the Leader saying he will win?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: They all stand for the Dáil and when they fail to get elected they get into the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: This is the intensive care department.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: The Leader will be in the next Dáil anyway——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I will——

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

David Norris: It is the way I tell them.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I support the calls for a debate on the Leas Cross report. More than 100 people, which is a large number, seem to have died in the nursing home, some of whom apparently died unnecessarily. It seems the inspectorate is not working. I am particularly concerned about public facilities that care for the elderly, which are not inspected satisfactorily at all. We should have the Minister in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I saw footage down in Limerick at the weekend — I was at a police conference — of people being baton-charged. The police issued an edict that a perfectly legal and peaceful protest was to be banned. The people who were protesting were then baton-charged. I spoke to an independent reporter who had been asked what he was doing while he was standing on a ditch. When he said he was doing...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: What did the Senator do about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Homelessness: Motion (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senators Quinn and Henry.

Seanad: Homelessness: Motion (15 Nov 2006)

David Norris: This is an important debate. I am sorry to see that once again the Government has introduced an amendment. We are all on the same side on this issue and it is unnecessary for this sort of amendment. All the amendment has done is remove some references from the motion and added more, mostly praise of the Government, but it is basically clear we are moving in the same direction. I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: He has not done his research.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: It only looked like it.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: I ask for a debate on the Corrib gas field and the Shell to Sea campaign. On more than one occasion, I praised the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, for his sterling qualities of decency and political courage. However, he did not show them last week in the Dáil. As parliamentarians, we are entitled to an explanation of the Government by smear...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: The Cathaoirleach is kind. Part of any debate should examine the guardianship of resources by a Government which landed us in a series of lousy contracts. Not only did it hand away our resources to Shell Oil for some inexplicable reason, but we also have the M50, the link bridge which will be bought back for hundreds of millions of euro and PPARS. Something is rotten and it ought to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: In that case, I support Senator O'Toole's point on Irish. It is ridiculous and I am prepared to be far more blunt that he is. The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, is single-minded. His old grandfather made Irish hated through this land by its compulsory nature and the Minister now hammers the last nail in the coffin. If someone in distress telephones a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2006)

David Norris: Ordinary sensible people in this country will be revolted by this. I ask for a debate on charities, particularly in the light of an all-party recommendation to the Minister for Finance, which will be discussed by the Fianna Fáil Party, to introduce legislation to re-direct credit card duty away from the Exchequer to charities. It would be a good and efficient way to support charities. It...