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- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: ââleaving senior management in place while providing an open-ended guarantee to two institutions which it should have been clear were on the road to insolvency. We have two banks going bust, and we leave the people responsible for it in the saddle. It is absolutely unbelievable that this should happen and for that reason I am astonished there is such a lack of electricity in the air...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: In Ulysses, James Joyce reminds us all of our shared humanity. Bloom, as he walks around Dublin, considers his repressed Jewish people all over the world. I never believed I would see a Nationalist crowd in Derry applauding a British Prime Minister who told the truth fearlessly. It was extraordinary. Bloom would use the imaginative force so movingly evoked by Senator Harris to encompass...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I call upon the Israeli authorities to end their cynical, heartless and contemptible exploitation of the Holocaust for their political purposes. It lets everyone down, including the tragic victims of Auschwitz and every other terrible camp. Yesterday, the German Government shamefully and forcibly deported a series of Roma people and their children back to what are effectively death camps in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: And Tibet.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: No, it was done by the Israeli authorities.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: If I could just have one minute to sayââ
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: No. I am an Independent and I can float. I do not have much confidence in this Government.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: The Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, will do the best he can in the time that is left to him in the knowledge that this Government will be gone at the next election. It has behaved with a certain amount of responsibility. In particular, I pay tribute to the courage and integrity of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, who has been outstanding both in his personal life and in the way he...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: However, I am not convinced that he is right and it is appalling to hear confirmation tonight from one of our committees that â¬20 billion of Irish taxpayers' money is being poured down the drain. I am afraid, with respect to the decency of many of the people in the current Government, that I will be voting in favour of the motion of no confidence in the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Here, here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: From where did the Senator get the figures?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Why pay off the debtors, these bondholders, if one does not have to?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I welcome the fact that a number of my colleagues have spoken out about the intervention of the bishops. I deplore it. They are, of course, entitled to their view and to express it publicly but to attempt once again nakedly to intervene in the political process is deplorable. I was one of the founders of the Southern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1970 which campaigned for full civil...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Would the Senator mind taking this a little seriously?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I am talking about human rights and there is no need to be so bloody smug about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: They attempted in every way to prevent me having a say. They were also extremely personally abusive to me. If you, Senator Keaveney, find this entertaining, you are a lesser human being than I thought you were.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Hear, hear. That is why I offered to debate the issue with Cardinal Brady. I hope he will take up my invitation, unlike the last couple of times when he did not even reply.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: On a point of order-----