Results 5,801-5,820 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
David Norris: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
David Norris: It should go to the Leader's Government for a start.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: It is extremely relevant.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: Not again, for God's sake. That is a confession of complete failure in the House if we have to suspend all the time. I am getting fed up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: I have a good deal sympathy for the Cathaoirleach because he does his best but the situation here is highlighted by the fact that virtually every day he must call Members on the Order of Business who were not heard the previous day. Why does the Leader continually resist attempts to regulate the Order of Business in the interests of the House in order that we can have a full and proper...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: When will the Leader stop talking about the CPP? When did it last meet? My information is it last met in November 2008. Let us have action and leadership and not frustration. Radio broadcasts of proceedings have stopped completely. It is not surprising the only business ever reported on television or in newspapers is the Order of Business. Today, The Irish Times columnist, Miriam Lord,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: They are still flogging and advertising 1% below cost mortgages. What will occur when the amount increases? More people will be trapped. Yesterday, a friend received an unsolicited offer of a loan worth â¬9,000 from a bank. What is the bank at? Last weekend, we discovered that the former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, retired from a hedge fund. Hello? While he was doing that, another...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: Have we any sense of what is occurring? Not for one minute is it acceptable to respond to calls for national cohesion by saying that, in Alan Dukes's time, it was a minority Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: No, that is wrong. What difference does it make whether something was a minority Government?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: We are in a crisis and the Government, whatever it is, should be supported if it is doing the right thing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: May we revert to the backbench subject of embryo stem cell research? Youth Defence is on the trot again. As if it was not bad enough, it is putting out dangerous, dishonest and misleading advertisements to the effect that 73 cures have been developed using adult stem cells while none has been developed using embryo stem cells. Some people have spent tens of thousands of euro. An...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: That is not fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: Will the Cathaoirleach put pressure on the Leader to extend the time allowed for the Order of Business?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: I ask myself whether this is real.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: I know that I am in the real world but I wonder whether the Leader is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: They could listen to country music and uplift themselves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: When will it meet?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: He has briefed me and the last meeting was in November which is an insult to this House.
- Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
David Norris: I understand the Acting Leader is prepared to allow an extension. I had intended to share time with Senator Doherty but, if time is very limited, it will not be possible to do so.