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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: The Senator should sit down and let me speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Mr. Michael O'Leary is a very flamboyant, brilliant businessman. If he can create jobs in Ireland, everybody will welcome them. However, it seems more likely that he wants to play with Aer Lingus's toys and apparently he is in a temper because he cannot do so. The hangar he wants, hangar No. 6, has been specially designed to take wide-bodied, transatlantic aircraft which Mr. O'Leary does...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Yes, I believe it is necessary. I was thinking, my dear Senator friend and colleague, of Albert Reynolds's little line that it was the little things that tripped one up. One could invert this and consider the whole question of proportionality and size, for example, the banks which are too big to fail and the little people who pay tax. With regard to Greece, Goldman Sachs, an enormous...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Do shut up, for goodness sake.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I could be a lot more unparliamentary.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: On a final point — one must be delicate about these matters — the Irish bishops are in Rome to be reprimanded about the way in which sexual abuse was covered up and so on. The issue goes entirely to the top. How can they take any other lead?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: For example, the Pope ought to answer questions about Maciel Degollado and the Legionaries of Christ——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: ——the man who escaped from Mexico, was pursued by the police and given sanctuary in the Vatican. These are very serious issues.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I, therefore, ask for a debate on public morality.

Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: While this is not something that should hold us for a great length of time, I wonder whether the Minister has carried out research to find out if he has contributed a new word to the English language. I have never come across the word "subsea" before, although I have come across "subsoil". In any case, it is a bastardisation of two languages, English and Latin, and is neither one nor the...

Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: That might be misconstrued. While it is not worth wasting much time on, I am curious to know if this is a word or if it has been recently coined by the Minister, or what is the difficulty.

Seanad: Proposed Emergency Funding to Greece: Statements (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I thank my colleague, Deputy Quinn, for sharing time. It is not very edifying for us in Ireland to be included in the acronym PIIGS, but that seems to be what has happened and I am not sure it is entirely our own fault. If one looks at the situation, tax evasion is endemic throughout the Hellenic world. I have a house in Cyprus where the same situation obtains as in Greece. It is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: We have a Cathaoirleach and it is not Senator Leyden.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: On a point of order, the Cathaoirleach referred to a word employed by Senator Buttimer as unparliamentary, an accusation which has sometimes been levelled against myself. Is there a list of words which are unparliamentary which can be made available so as to avoid this situation?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Like colleagues and victims, some of whom are priests, I am saddened and dismayed by the charade in Rome. Pope Benedict has a problem because he needs to explain the involvement of his office in the case of a Mexican priest who faces charges regarding the abuse of priests in seminaries. I understand his name is Marcial Maciel Degollado and he founded the Legionaries of Christ. The Pope has...

Seanad: Cancer Awareness: Statements (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I join in that welcome. Ms O'Meara is a distinguished former colleague and has represented the Irish Cancer Society. I express my admiration for the work done by this organisation. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady, and I seek the permission of the House to share time with Senator Rónán Mullen. This is a serious situation and the facts are stark. This year, some...

Seanad: Power Sharing Agreement in Northern Ireland: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I thank my colleague, Senator Ann Ormonde, for a remarkable display of cross-bench co-operation. This is one of the spirits we need in the North of Ireland: the spirit of genuine co-operation, and I am unsure whether it is always there. I share the admiration expressed by Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú for the remarkable performance of Senator Cassidy, particularly in displaying his reading...

Seanad: Power Sharing Agreement in Northern Ireland: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: It is on the websites of the Colombian President and foreign ministry, and it simply shows what can happen with massaging. Perhaps the Minister will be able to correct it.

Seanad: Power Sharing Agreement in Northern Ireland: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

David Norris: This is why I say it.