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Seanad: Health Services: Motion (28 May 2008)

David Norris: The Minister for Health and Children cannot be made responsible for each individual case. The greatest political friend I ever had in my life was Mr. Noel Browne and I salute him, because he single-handedly broke through the curse of tuberculosis. He broke the piggy-bank of the sweepstakes and established hospitals everywhere. If Mr. Noel Browne was in this House or the other House...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2008)

David Norris: Does the Senator have a question for the Leader?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2008)

David Norris: We are having it now, apparently.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2008)

David Norris: I am happy that Senators are unanimous in welcoming the cluster munitions ban treaty. We can be proud of the fact that it will forever have the name "Dublin" attached to it. We should compliment the former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, who took a direct, active and personal interest in this matter, and Pax Christi Ireland, which briefed Senators ahead of the debate in...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2008)

David Norris: We did so in respect of smoking, another health problem, and should be able to do so in this regard. If necessary, we could estimate compensation for small and independent stations for lost revenue. The situation on the M1 was dreadful. I also understand that a young woman may have been killed in a tragic accident on Parnell Street. Despite Mr. Frank McDonald's comments in The Irish Times,...

Seanad: Prison Building Programme: Motion. (29 May 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (29 May 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and, given my experience of him in the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs where he showed himself to clear-sighted, forthright and open to argument, I am glad he is in charge of these proposals. He is prepared to take risks from time to time. I endorse what has been said by my colleagues, particularly Senator Ivana Bacik, about the location and...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: Is this statements on the Lisbon treaty? I would like to take part in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: I am not an organisation.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: I join the acting leader of Fine Gael in calling for a debate on the health service. Last week messages of sympathy were sent to Senator Ted Kennedy but this morning we heard of another Ted Kennedy, a patient in the Mater Hospital suffering from some variation of motor neurone disease. He has been treated and has been fit to go home for the last two months but is unable to do so because of...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: Senator Ross only wants to make the same statement on the Lisbon treaty as Senator Regan did.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: It is never the right time to do the wrong thing.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: I support this series of amendments in principle, as I would have supported the previous amendment about religious broadcasting, but I simply do not like mandatory quotas because they tend to get filled up with pap if one has a requirement for a particular percentage. I am slightly surprised that the amendment survived because it seemed that if it were to work, as I hope it does, it might...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: I thank my colleagues for advertising Newstalk 106-108 FM and my show from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Sundays.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: My Sinn Féin colleagues tell me it is repeated in the evening.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: No, I have another quotation from a Yeats poem: "We who are old, old and gay,".

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2008)

David Norris: I agree with the sentiment of this amendment but I am not sure I can agree with the sentiment as framed. Senator Mullen may be satisfied if the Minister of State agrees to look at this area and give a response to show that this sector of the population is catered for. If we are going to boast about age, I am required to tell the House that I shall be 64 in a few weeks.