Results 4,321-4,340 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: There is a certain level of hypocrisy abroad today. Senator Mary White for example will not advance her avowed aim of helping to consolidate the peace process by describing Northern Ireland as a colony. It would be interesting to see what would happen if interest rates were reduced in the North of Ireland and we lost investment here when international business investment travelled North....
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I am glad that Senator Frances Fitzgerald has proposed to oppose the Order of Business. If we are serious about ethics we must make sure that everything is done in a proper, transparent, above board manner. The message of this manoeuvre is that we can bend the rules and fudge things. It is astonishing that this should happen in the very body that is supposed to supervise standards in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is where privatisation leads.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: And pens.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is not exactly a free bar, is it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I welcome the fact that the motion on Ingrid Betancourt would be passed unanimously and I congratulate those who have persisted in pushing this matter. I gather the motion is in the name of all of us. It is a matter I raised some years ago, but others have brought it to this successful conclusion and I congratulate and compliment them. In the light of this agreement and the easy passage of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: This should have an easy passage because yesterday at the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs this was tabled in the names of Deputy M. Higgins and myself and it was passed unanimously. It is an important matter on which Ireland should take a stance. We will be holding a conference on this subject in Ireland and in advance of this conference it would be useful if we passed this motion and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The other matter I want to raise was also generated by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs. Yesterday we had a meeting with a former distinguished Member of this House, Dr. Maurice Manning, who is now the head of the Irish Human Rights Commission. He presented to us the views of the Human Rights commission on the question of rendition and, in particular, the involvement of Shannon...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Not worth a damn and not legally binding.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I never suggested that. I suggested we have a debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I thank Senator Ormonde. That is great. Will she let the Chair know?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: We have proof from the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and several jurisdictions and courts in Europe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: No, he is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: We are his equals.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.