Results 4,301-4,320 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: However, he looks rather shocked at the prospect of entering my consciousness like that. I thank him for his undertaking to look at this amendment and I shall re-submit it on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Russians were better off under the Soviet Union.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The country is run by gangsters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
David Norris: If it were a democracy, the United States would have bombed it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I wish to refer to an issue I raised yesterday, which is the report of the Irish Human Rights Commission on rendition. It is an important matter and I compliment the Green Party, through you, a Chathaoirligh, on its apparently firm stand. I hope that party maintains its firm stand so as to extract for the first time honest answers from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern....
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: In the context of the first non-Government motion on the Order Paper in the name of the Independent Senators regarding the status of charities etc., perhaps the Leader will indicate when legislation will be forthcoming. We were promised legislation to make charities more accountable, to regulate their activities and so forth. In saying this, I am not trying to be a Scrooge. I have just...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I do not consider the late General Eoin O'Duffy, in the absence of a more appropriate and positive example, a suitable role model for impressionable, young gay people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Lisburn is just up the road.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I am sure this will prompt a flurry of activity today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The Leader has it all wrong.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: What about me? I am the mother of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I thank Senator Frances Fitzgerald for her gracious words and confirm this will be a continuing archive. I quoted John Donne to the unfortunate librarian yesterday, "When thou has done, thou has not done for I have more" and there will be more. I will put down the domestic partnership civil registration Bill for Private Members' time early in the new year which I hope will give us an...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Newstalk.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: There is no chance of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The Senator is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson and not the Seanad spokesperson.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is not.