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Seanad: Carers in Ireland: Statements (13 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Carers in Ireland: Statements (13 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Senator Corrigan anticipated my first remarks, which were to the effect that the tributes paid earlier to the late Nuala Fennell constitute a highly appropriate context in which to have this series of statements. I wish to front-load my acknowledgement that this Minister of State is decent and that the economy is bad. Having got that out of the way, I will review the present position. The...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Although Senator O'Toole has spoken on behalf of the Independent group, I request that I be allowed to speak because I am essentially from the same parish as the late Joe Doyle. I spent my childhood and young manhood in Dublin 4. I was an Anglican and Joe a Roman Catholic. He was very heavily involved in the Sacred Heart Church, which many of my neighbours attended. I went every week to...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister. I am sure we will deal expeditiously with these matters. I compliment the Minister on the constructive manner in which he dealt with the entire process, which cannot have been easy. It was in fact remarkable that an appointed head of a semi-State body, Bord na gCon, was on occasion so vociferous against the Minister. That was most regrettable and unusual and in my...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am glad the question of tattooing, identification and microchipping has been introduced at this point because I was reserving my power for a later amendment. I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this issue because I fully support the Minister on the microchipping of dogs. He mentioned the case of a greyhound bitch. I saw her at the newly developing headquarters of the Dublin...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am still here.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am very glad to have an opportunity to speak on this Stage of the Bill. I hope to be able to refer to section 33, in particular, but I must attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs. I welcome the emergence of the Bill from the Dáil. It is interesting that the amendments fill a very thick volume. This may suggest the Bill was not as carefully thought out as it might...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Many are empty. Therefore, why are they being built?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: The idea that because one is born on a particular patch of land, all of one's extened family have the automatic right to live there is absolute nonsense. Reference has been made to the flight from the land and the desperate efforts made to bring people back. If a family has ten children, should all ten have the right to build on its land? Can they sell that right? This is complete...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am sure the intellectual flexibility of Senator Bacik will allow her weave it in and the Minister of State will be agreeable to this.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: It will also be relevant to group 11.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: The monitor is still showing group 9.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: It has changed now.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am interested particularly in the alterations to section 33 and the introduction of a new section 50B. This relates to cost recovery and, as I mentioned at the beginning of this debate, the whole matter of the way in which we implement European regulations and directives that require planning decisions to be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive. The problem is the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Section 33.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I understood this was dealing with cost recovery, according to the helpful note. If it is dealing with cost recovery then it certainly should deal with this matter. My brief states that the cumulative effect of the provisions may well be to reduce the capacity of the public to challenge important planning decisions because of the question of costs recovery. If this is incorrect, I am happy...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: I am dealing with group 11 amendments. My briefing notes state that this is the subject matter of these amendments. If I am wrong, then I apologise but this is what the advice states. In any case, the principle certainly stands. For example, if a litigant, an applicant for review, is successful, it is only in the most exceptional circumstances that he or she can recover the costs incurred...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: Tá an Gaeilge go flúirseach agat agus blás álainn dílis agat ar fad.