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- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: If the Senator is intelligent enough to listen, instead of smirking and giggling, I will explain. The reason I call into question Condoleeza Rice's intellectual or emotional gender identity was her description of the bloodbath unleashed by the Americans and Israelis in Lebanon as the birth pangs of democracy. I reserve the right to question the fundamental humanity and decency of a person...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: No one ever did.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: That is more of the evasion and the lies.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: The Minister of State should be writing Finnegans Wake.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: Will the Leas-Chathaoirleach ask the Minister of State what question he is replying to because I do not have the faintest idea?
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: That is rubbish. I said he was selling out to torturers and that is what he has done.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: He is a decent man but he has been stuck in like a patsy.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: Having committed these appalling acts, the jets were refuelled with the connivance of the Irish authorities.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: While it facilitates it.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: That should tell the Minister of State something.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Regulations (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: I wish to express my gratitude to my colleagues who allowed me to speak first because I have an engagement.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Regulations (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: The matter I wish to raise is a question involving pharmacists and their right to be represented by a trade union in their wage or fee negotiations. This right is being denied, which is very regrettable. A legal precedent exists in this regard. This is by no means the first time I have come across this issue, which is the crazy notion of competition. Competition should benefit the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Regulations (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: That is fairly appropriate because I think I have made the principal points. I know the Minister of State's script has been already prepared by civil servants for him to regurgitate. This is the way with everybody. The Minister of State is a decent man, but I ask him to take on board the arguments and see if we can have an amelioration on this issue because it is the small person who is...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Regulations (31 Jan 2007)
David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for his constructive reply. I have no brief for pharmaceutical combines. I am all in favour of the consumer, as I am one myself. I am currently taking pills. It was stated the recognised union can negotiate for everything except fees. That is nonsense. In light of what I said, I appeal to the Minister of State to urge the Minister for Health and Children to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I agree with Senator Brian Hayes about the contribution made by Mrs. Lynch when referring to her murdered son and the inappropriate writing of letters. The Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, is a very decent and responsible man. We should not target any individual because the practice is endemic. There is something wrong with the system. Every Government, not only Fianna Fáil...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Bravo.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: It is not just in the countryside; it is in the cities, too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Yes but I would not send a letter I had not read.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
David Norris: It was right to raise the issue as a matter of public interest.