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Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: This is Senator O'Toole's amendment.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: He did it at the same time on RTE.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: The Tánaiste should consult the Internet. Does the Tánaiste state the Taoiseach never did this?

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: When did the Taoiseach state it?

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: The Minister should stop interrupting and he should speak through the Chair.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I will be very brief as I am interested to hear what the Minister has to say. First I should say I am not impugning the Minister's honour at all, as he seems very tetchy on that.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Indeed he was.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I would not have to be a professional physiognomist to read the Minister's face, I can assure him.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Not at all, go on out of that. I would not accuse the Minister of consistency anyway because he tried to blackguard me——

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: ——from my decent parliamentary interruptions and then he riddled that poor lad——

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: ——-with interruptions himself. So I am not expecting consistency from him and we did not get it on the stamp duty issue either.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I beg your pardon.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Absolutely. We can argue the case any way we want but there is no doubt there was a change of position. The Minister has stated it is reactive but that is not particularly good Government. All we are saying is in justice, and to use a phrase dear to the heart of the Soldiers of Destiny, in fairness, some people were given the impression there would be no changes. There has been a change...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: We should expect a few red herrings and white elephants.

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: We cannot understand what he says so it is perfectly easy for him to do it.

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I commend my distinguished colleague on the Government benches on his brilliant rendition of the explanatory memorandum of the Bill. I hope he is a member of Irish Actors Equity because it was a superb performance. Senator Hanafin knew just where to draw the line. He did not treat us to the table of the existing thresholds. I thought for one wonderful moment he might but he did not...

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: The bits he read out were quite exciting but were not, as my friend and colleague, Senator Quinn, pointed out to me, up to the standard of his original intervention which had a certain kind of punch. All that old rubbish about things written in sand and chiselled in stone and that we must turn a blind eye to people's faults because they were in the past is not ethics. As I said on the Order...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: She has never felt Senator Ryan's lash.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Well said.