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Seanad: Care of the Elderly (28 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I received information on it. It seems to have been an energetic, positive and constructive meeting. I ask the Minister of State to work with those people. A committee has been formed to try to rescue Bethany House. The Minister of State should let it do it. If, as its membership believe, it is a matter of refurbishment, this could be done. The local community could be energised and the...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (28 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for her gracious reply. Events have marched beyond what applied at that time so those questions are no longer relevant. Would the Minister of State or her representatives meet the committee to investigate the possibility of whether it is a better employment of money, with the assistance of the local committee which could fund raise, to preserve the building? I...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (28 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I mean the newly formed committee of the supporters and relatives. I really would appreciate that. I did not say that the Minister of State had misled the House. All I would say is that the material on the website which the relatives of one of the patients read on-line in Scotland completely conflicted with the situation on the ground. The Minister of State is not directly responsible for...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (28 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the Leader back. I do so because he very kindly welcomed me back yesterday. It was excessively courteous of him and I would not like him to think he was under any slight because I did not do the same to him. He is a Castlepollard man in whom there is no guile. Had it been anybody else, I would have thought it might have been a sly attempt to suggest I was not here at some stage....

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

David Norris: I thank the Leader for his constructive suggestion yesterday that we might be able to put together an all-party motion to support the Government's moves in regard to a war crimes tribunal on Gaza. The Minister for Foreign Affairs advanced this measure with other EU foreign ministers. He was supported by Cyprus, Portugal and Sweden. I suggest that the Government might be encouraged to...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I agree with Senator O'Malley in that there are vested interests, but that is why they were there. The trade unions are an interest group, as are the employers and the Government. I was impressed by the remarks of Mr. David Begg and other union leaders, namely, that their vested interests include a significant and superior vested interest in the welfare of the country. They are prepared to...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Scandalous stuff, well done, congratulations.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Cardinal Kasper certainly seemed pretty anxious about it, and he ought to know. He is a German and he is a cardinal.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Why do we have an ambassador at all?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: How very Christian of you, Monsignor.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Senator McFadden never interrupts anybody else.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I move: That Seanad Éireann, in the light of: the abolition of the Combat Poverty Agency; the destruction of the Equality Authority; the downsizing of the Irish Human Rights Commission; the absorption of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism; as well as the refusal to advocate the monitoring of the human rights protocols attached to the external trade agreement...