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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Full respect.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Is Senator Butler interrupting Senator Regan?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Senator Regan has hardly had an opportunity to speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I do not propose to get involved in a contest of seniority, and I understand both Senators O'Toole and Ross raised this matter earlier in the last century.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: It is very important we discuss this matter because there are different views. Different views may be held with integrity, but there is no factual question that the Olympic Games and the events surrounding it are intensely political. That is why political leaders from all over the world, who would not know the difference between ju-jitsu and an egg and spoon race, are attending. They will...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: We were not. Go away out of that.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: So we are on the wrong side now.

Seanad: Kidnapping and Detention of Ms Ingrid Betancourt: Motion (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: With the permission of the House I wish to share my time with Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Kidnapping and Detention of Ms Ingrid Betancourt: Motion (10 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is a very good day. It is excellent that this motion is an all-party one signed by the representatives of the different groups. I had forgotten this motion was on the Order Paper when I tabled the other one as a result of direct contact from the campaign to release Ingrid Betancourt. I proposed the simple idea that there should be contact...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I thank my colleague Senator O'Toole for raising the custody case. It is extremely important and it is a reproach to this House. We had the relevant Bill, prepared by myself and Senator Bacik, on the Order Paper for four years. It went into every committee. The Government raised questions and some of these questions have been now answered by the learned judge, Mr. Justice Hedigan, who...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I insist on doing so and I will say why. Several people read speeches from beginning to end prepared by Government advisers and I want to accurately put on the record the reproach of this distinguished judge to this House for not doing what it should have done. I want to get it right and I do not mean any disrespect; I am being accurate. The judge stated that it is something that calls...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I beg your pardon, The Irish Times. The newspaper of record and the only newspaper that records the doings of this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the fact that the Department of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement supporting Mr. Michael Semple a distinguished diplomat who has recently had some turbulence in his career and who is accused by certain media sources here of being a spook and a spy, quoting low grade British newspapers in so doing. I hope the statement of support contains information stating that he most...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Through the Chair to the Leader, this should be left on the record of the House. In possession of information that their shares were on a decline, some of these gentlemen went around the world on what they called roadshows flogging the thing. They were selling something they knew to be practically valueless to unfortunate people. That is theft and the amounts involved were €80 million,...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: It is a very narrow party.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I do not have one. That is my great virtue.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I get thousands of votes, even in my small constituency.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: On a point of order, I seek clarification. When the Leader says one from each side, does he mean "Yes" and "No"?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

David Norris: The Leader said clearly that he wanted MEPs from each side. Does he mean from each party or one from the "Yes" and "No" sides for balance? In light of the McKenna judgment, it would be improper not to have spokespersons from each side.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Will the Leader contact the Minister for Foreign Affairs to wish him success with the forthcoming international diplomatic conference on cluster munitions, to be held in Croke Park? I hope a treaty can be produced on foot of that meeting. In light of the resolutions which were passed unanimously on an all-party basis by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and this House, it is important...