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Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State who is from my part of the world. I know him to be a decent and courageous man. I was in the church in Westland Row when he stood up. His name, John Moloney, did not mean anything but when people heard the words "Fianna Fáil", a palpable wave of anger travelled down the church. I have never experienced anything like it. The reason for that was not...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: It is useless.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: Being defended by Senator Leyden might be a worse fate.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: This is not a court.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: I listened with interest to the calls for a debate on the way people vote, cynicism and so on. It seems it was a clarion call for independence. We are the only ones in this House who have the luxury of being able to act as we speak in the voting lobby. I have seen every party in the Oireachtas behave in precisely the same way described by Senator Alex White. This is a feature of the way...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: That company had the lowest investment in infrastructure, especially in broadband. Having flogged off Eircom, so to speak, we are going to do a little bit of short selling on the market, namely, selling and buying back again. Hedge funds; short selling — what a way to go.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: Aer Lingus was happily privatised and Shannon was shafted pretty nicely. Now the workers are going to come out because Aer Lingus wants to outsource. I call for a debate on all these issues, including Eircom, privatisation, the market and the Competition Authority which has been spoken about, has been absolutely useless, has only intervened against the citizens and neglected to notice——

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: ——the deadline that let off one major multinational corporation. Let us have a debate on all these issues but let us be honest about and see what the record and the past has taught us in this area.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution on this subject. Both Houses of the Oireachtas and the people are deeply in debt to former Deputy Jim Higgins and Deputy Brendan Howlin. The cardinal point is that without them, the Morris tribunal would not have existed. They did not make allegations but rather reported them while behaving in a very proper way. They did not abuse the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: To destroy the embryos.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: That is telling him.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: I support Senator Frances Fitzgerald's call for a debate on the cutbacks in the Combat Poverty Agency and others. I have been raising this for the past three weeks. It is clear no savings will be made with these cuts. It is just an attempt to muzzle the voice of the disadvantaged and a very cynical action, as is the Government's decision to reopen the question of extraordinary rendition at...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: That is such a slavish and disgusting thing. I want to tell my good friends in the Green Party not to be bought off with this little sop from the Administration to allow them to close the door after the horses have bolted. A committee was established by this House to examine the issue which was then dissolved by the Government. Now, there is another one which contradicts what the then...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: The reports of his comments on RTE showed an arrogant, threatening and legalistic tone as the cardinal allied himself with Karl Rove, George Bush, Robert Mugabe and Ian Paisley.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: I was one of the founders of the Southern Ireland Civil Rights Association which fought for the civil and human rights of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. It horrifies me that the leader of a church should seek to stamp his mark on such discrimination and inequality. I very much regret that I am forced to raise this issue. I thought we had put it behind us. I wanted us to get on to...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

David Norris: I will meet him in the National Stadium, the RDS or the National Concert Hall and debate this issue if he feels so strongly about it.