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- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: In that case the House has been misinformed.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Fine. Why was there an objection? In that case the House was misinformed this morning.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I am glad of that correction, because certainly the Official Report will show that was what we were told this morning.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I am very glad for that clarification and I accept it.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I know that. I am talking about the situation there. Senator Mansergh need not be so neuroticâ
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: âthat he makes a knee-jerk reaction to everything I say. I know something about the situation in East Timor. If Senator Mansergh thinks it is satisfactory, he should go there and take a look at it.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Then the Senator should go back there.
- Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I was arrested on the way in because my comments were not so bland as to please the Indonesia administration. With regard to the incidence of disease, while diarrhoea is a simple disease to treat, large number of children are dying from it in Iraq. Some 70% of all child deaths recently in Iraq have been diarrhoea related. Dysentery and typhoid are also becoming a significant problem and this...
- Seanad: Autism Services: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I am glad of the opportunity to say a few words on this issue and congratulate Senator Ross for having raised it. Like my colleagues, I have been contacted during the years by a number of people in connection with autism. Some time ago a man from Sligo wrote to all Members of the Oireachtas but received very little by way of response. He sought a meeting with the Minister but did not get one....
- Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Not on the basis of their current performance.
- Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Tuffy.
- Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I will be very brief. Thank God this motion has been brought forward. Thank God there is some sense, at last. I recall being practically the only person arguing precisely this case and being hammered for it â except for one good person, Senator O'Rourke. When she had responsibility as Minister for Public Enterprise, she ran with the idea and that was great. I did not realise she was coming...
- Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I withdraw that. They did not have the courage to do it but still they carp. We are being told from the Government side of the House that the project will be delivered in 2016. That is hopeless. That is an utter waste and it is the reason it will run into hugely excessive cost. When I heard an individual from the Railway Procurement Agency being interviewed on a radio programme, I laughed....
- Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I will be very brief and I hope the Chair will be flexible. I will deal with just one point. If the same costings were used for the Dublin Airport metro tunnel as for the Dublin Port tunnel, the latter could be extended from Dublin to Belfast. That shows how unrealistic are the costings given by the Railway Procurement Agency for the Dublin metro. Let us get real. Let us involve people such...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I support my colleagues' call for a debate on neutrality. It is important that we look at this issue and define it, and that for a change we are honest about it. I really do believe in Irish neutrality in terms of keeping ourselves out of military alliances. We should put the most effective weight we can behind the United Nations peacekeeping initiatives. I feel that particularly when people...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)
David Norris: There is direction.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)
David Norris: Senator Mooney may make the distinction in his speech and I will look after mine. I am talking about the situation there where innocent people are being killed, and where, for example, in a previously targeted attack, a 1,000 lb. bomb was dropped where they expected somebody from Hamas to be and 15 civilians were killed. The really sinister aspect is that there is political direction by the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Jun 2003)
David Norris: I support Senator Brian Hayes in his comments on the Intoxicating Liquor Bill. The Leader must agree that it is not the most helpful way to proceed, and it does not assist the efficiency of the House if we get a Bill in the morning and have to debate it in the afternoon. The timescale is unrealistically short. We have debated the level of crime in the capital city but we need a focused debate...