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Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I did not interfere, I laughed. Senator Harris is lucky I did not do more.

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Senator Harris is welcome to do so.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I propose to share time with the Senator Quinn. I welcome the Minister of State but with lukewarm enthusiasm. I listened with interest to Senator Ross, who has led this debate in this House and on the back page of his newspaper, this morning when he said it would be an indication of the Government's seriousness if the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, came to the House. He did not...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: The Minister of State spoke about using figures from the Department of Finance, but when did the Department of Finance last get any figures right? I cannot remember, as the Department seems to be permanently wrong. Where were those people for the past seven years?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: As we are firing people from the banks, how about firing a few people from the Department of Finance? There is also the matter of the social partners. It is obscene that people are taking 3% or 6% pay increases and saying they got them under the agreement. Nobody should be taking an increase of any kind, private or public. That should be made clear before we start taking anything from...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I like to hear the Minister of State speaking but I do not believe he actually put in a verb. He put one in later but not at that point.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: The Minister of State is a formidable opponent.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I will take another minute if Senator Quinn agrees.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I am referring to page ten of the Minister of State's script, in which he deals with section 1. He spoke about the definitions of public service bodies as "the Civil Service, the Garda Síochána, the Permanent Defence Force, local authorities, the Health Service Executive, the Central Bank". In this regard I draw the Minister of State's attention to a case from the Supreme Court, the...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Bravo.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: If it ever meets again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: That is rubbish. The Senator should ask scientists for the information and not the Vatican.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: People are being defrauded out of money and exposed to experiments which are cruel and unjustified.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Unsuccessful experiments on human patients are——

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Does the Senator believe there is nothing going wrong here?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Following on from the previous speaker, I am a big advocate of polls. We ought to pay attention to them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I have a question for the Leader. When will the Government get off its backside and do something about the domestic partnership Bill in the light of the poll in today's The Irish Times conducted by Lansdowne Market Research which shows that despite the gutlessness of this Administration——

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ——62% of the people would vote in a referendum in favour of full civil marriage for gay people——

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ——despite the backward people on the Government side of the House?