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Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

David Norris: The Senator cannot say that about the Independents.

Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "condemns the Government for breaking the commitments clearly and repeatedly given to reach the 0.7% target for development aid."

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: The most chilling and damning words on the front page of The Irish Times this morning are "systematic" and "endemic". They tell the whole story. This was known to many people in authority. In the Church, responsibility goes right to Rome, where a report detailing the systematic and endemic sexual abuse of children gathered dust for 60 years. I respectfully disagree with Senator Harris, to...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: I am only asking for a very mild revolution.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: If we have no Minister, how can we have a resolution?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

David Norris: On the basis that the Leader has gone a considerable way towards accommodating me and has indicated that if at all possible, he will allow ten minutes at the beginning of proceedings next Wednesday, I will withdraw the amendment. We will be watching for that and I hope it will be possible. Otherwise the Government's inaction will be very badly regarded by the people. There will be other...

Seanad: Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009: Second Stage (21 May 2009)

David Norris: With the permission of the House, I should like to share time with Senator Ross who has a particular interest in this matter. I had not intended to speak on this Bill, but rather to leave it to my betters to deal with, people such as Senators O'Toole and Ross who have a long track record in pursuing this issue. However, I was briefed this morning, which was pretty late, by people...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Roche. I raise a human rights matter which involves a distinguished parliamentarian and diplomat, Mr. Remzi Kartal, who is a member of the Kurdish National Congress. Mr. Kartal visited the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs with a delegation of Kurdish representatives some years ago. The Minister of State may have met him at that time. I...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: I am sorry but I really must interrupt the Minister of State at this point. I object in the strongest possible manner to this rubbish being placed on the record. Mr. Kartal, whose matter I have raised today, has no association whatever with the PKK. This material could be used to smear him. I suggest that this reply be withdrawn.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: At least the Minister of State must make clear there is no such connection.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: Therefore it has no relevance to the debate.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for his clarification but virtually all of his reply was irrelevant. It was a type of history lesson, accurate enough as far as it went. I am sure the Minister of State knows only too well that dragging the PKK scent across this trail is not at all helpful and is completely wrong-headed. I accept his clarification but obviously it was unnecessary to have...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues (21 May 2009)

David Norris: I appreciate the Minister of State's initiative and I thank him very much.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

David Norris: I do not agree with the previous speaker. I would say that we must do something practical. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that we take today No. 34, motion 8, in my name and some of my Independent colleagues, on the exemption of the churches from the operations of the equality legislation. It is astonishing that the very agency that presided over the rape of children,...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2009)

David Norris: The deaf, the handicapped, the most vulnerable were especially targeted. I say to that nun who stated that the deal is closed, "No it ain't, Sister." I can tell the House this. On any deal where they state they will deal with the victims, have they not learned anything? Do they not listen?