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Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: That is the Senator's ideological bias.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Why?

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: We would not wish to embarrass the Senator, so we will all have to vote "Yes".

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. He is a vigorous and intellectually challenging representative of the Government. I am distressed to say, however, that I have to speak as a bit of a flake, in the words of my good friend and colleague, Senator Ormonde. I face the ghastly prospect of embarrassing the Senator and encouraging Ireland to be perceived as mean. These are terrible...

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: People have said the treaty is difficult to read and have been patronised for saying that. One learned commentator said it was like trying to read Finnegans Wake backwards in Latin. Even for a Joycean like myself I imagine that might pose some difficulties. If we examine the statements of other senior politicians, Monsieur Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is on record as saying that the Lisbon...

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: That was not a tract. It was an article by Susan George in The Irish Times. I accept the Minister may be right but will he accept also that there are 63 mentions of the word "market" and 25 of the——

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: Okay. Could the Minister also comment on the fact that in Strasbourg on 10 July last year Jose Barosso stated: "Sometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of Empire. We have the dimensions of Empire". There is an imperial level to it, therefore. With regard to the economic aspect, there is the business about spreading the European economic message by what is...

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I am waiting for the Senator to tell me how I demonised the Union.

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I quoted from some of the leaders. The "demonising" came from the European head bottle washer.

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: The Senator has not answered any of my criticisms.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2008)

David Norris: I thank my colleague, Senator Mullen for sharing time. I have but a few brief observations to make. I congratulate the Labour Party for putting down this Bill. It is the same Bill that has been presented to the Dáil by Deputy Joan Burton and it is a very good day's work. Most of the time I come across freedom of information business when I get a slip saying that some newspaper has...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)

David Norris: I agree with Senator Coghlan on the seriousness of the situation in County Cork. That personal files have been unearthed in such a fashion — they were clearly visible owing to railway works — is regrettable. A man with a history of alcoholism and drug use was referred to on the radio news this morning because his file, containing details of his address, occupation and so on, was found....

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

David Norris: I join with Senator Fitzgerald in sending good wishes to the retiring Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern. I did not have the opportunity to praise him in this House. I listened to some of the ceremony at the Battle of the Boyne site and was very struck by memories which came to mind to which nobody else has referred. I recalled a moment during a difficult period of the peace process when the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

David Norris: He would not be the first in the Seanad.

Seanad: Visit of Former Cathaoirleach (7 May 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

David Norris: I wish to raise an issue concerning No. 19, motion 3, of non-Government motions on the Order Paper. It calls on the Seanad to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to request his partners in the European Union to establish a monitoring committee to examine the way in which human rights provisions in Israel are being implemented, if they are and if there are any infringements of these...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

David Norris: There are no weapons of mass destruction there.

Seanad: Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008: Committee Stage (8 May 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.