Results 4,401-4,420 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Is the Senator a lulu or a loo-la?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I do not intend any discourtesy to the Minister, but is a script of her remarks available?

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I noticed the Minister was reading and I thought perhaps there was a script that was not made available.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senator Ross, with the agreement of the House. I welcome the Minister and agree with many of the points made by Senator Joe O'Toole regarding the effort she has put into this area. However, I believe she is misguided. Autism is now recognised and identified as a condition but it is very complex. One does not speak of autism on its own, but rather an autistic...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Had the millions that have been spent been applied in these situations, the Minister would not need to ring-fence 12 schools, divide and conquer and fight off the other schools. It is down to the Civil Service.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (21 Feb 2008)

David Norris: The same situation applies to capping. Were the intervention permitted, it would stop a considerable number of people ending up in institutions, another saving. Even on the crude basis of a cost benefit analysis, we would be ahead of the game with ABA.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Like a building society, as in the case of St. Luke's.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I advise Members, in case they have not received notification and in light of tomorrow night's debate on civil marriage for gay people, that a briefing on this matter has been organised by GLEN in the AV room. People of different views might find it useful to attend that. The Leader graciously agreed to take a motion on landmines this week if possible. I do not know if it would be possible...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

David Norris: ——the lamented former Senator Martin Mansergh squeaking petulantly on the electric wireless at Senator Regan and saying, "Respect your betters", I recognised the true Cromwellian flavour of certain sections of that noble party over there.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I support Senator O'Toole's comments in respect of the morning-after pill. I was astonished to discover that a majority of young women who approach the medical authorities do not, because they were so drunk, know with whom they had sex or if they had sex. This behaviour places in context the Private Members' debate to take place later. There are people who do not want to allow respectable...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I am a true republican.

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I move: That Seanad Éireann, acting upon the principles enunciated on behalf of the then Fíanna Fail/Labour Coalition Government in 1993 during the debate surrounding the decriminalisation of male homosexuality, in which the then Minister for Justice indicated that clear factual and cogent arguments rather than prejudice would be required to support discrimination in law against any Irish...

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Declan Costello pointed out in 1967 that the Constitution is an organic and developing document. The United Nations defines "family" in a variety of ways that are not confined to this group. With regard to the Constitution, the Law Reform Commission sought and obtained opinion to the effect that the only way constitutionality could be challenged would be through legislation which purported...

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Absolutely.

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: That is not over yet.

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: She is not the first judge to make a mistake.

Seanad: Civil Marriage: Motion (27 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I know that.