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- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I doubt that I will take lessons from Senator Buttimer on that particular angle. The second matter that I would like to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----mention is also a squalid performance. Senator Bacik is correct about the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. In concert with the Senator I raised the question of discrimination against Protestant schools. I hated doing so because I do not like to see any such denominational issue, on which we both agree. The Minister of State was sent here to produce a tissue...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Now, 40 years late, they have discovered it is unconstitutional. How incredible is that? Why was it not put before the House two weeks' ago when we raised the matter? Thank God for decent, gallant people like Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin who has rode in to try to protect the reputation of the country and its education system when it is being sullied by the squalid dishonesty we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Why they cannot allow the Senator's party to abolish the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Off the top of his head.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Maybe the Senator will vet them as well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Let the record show a Mexican nod for the press gallery.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear. Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Yes, exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I support Senator O'Toole. Is it appropriate that Members learn for the first time-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----from an ordinary Member on the Government benches that the House is not sitting next week? This is absurd.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I ask the Leader as a matter of urgency to clarify if this House is meeting next week or not, and the reasons for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Kick her out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Can the Cathaoirleach throw me out? I would like to be expelled. I have been terribly well-behaved and I would like the headlines, like Senator Healy Eames.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Is the Cathaoirleach sure?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: We missed the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: If that was an explosion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: It took the leader of Fine Gael four and a half hours to extract a weak vote of support at an unusual meeting of his party members yesterday. Apparently, however, he was supported uncritically and enthusiastically by the leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad, Senator Fitzgerald, as well as Senators Twomey and Donohoe. As two of these Members have served previously in the other House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----and the other one wants to get into it, they are not really determined to be in this House. In the circumstances, as this proposal was made in the context of an economy measure, is it appropriate that they should continue to serve in this House? Should they honourably surrender their salaries to all the projects they suggested were being cut back because of the existence of this House?...