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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: That is cynicism.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: Senator Walsh held it up with his filibustering.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I asked questions earlier, using Griffith College as an example, and perhaps the Minister of State could address them. As it stands, certain colleges are regarded as outside the scope of the Bill because they are fee-paying. This is an anomaly because certain students who are disadvantaged and who attend the Law Society of Ireland or the Honourable Society of the King's Inns are covered by...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: That is the Hunt report.

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I am grateful to the Minister of State for his reply. The difficulty is in what he said about the question of resources being available. This almost invariably stops these progressive things. What worries me is that there is a principle of equity in all this. I have always believed the scarce resources of the State should go to those students most in need. The colleges that have not been...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I see socialism is not widespread.

Seanad: Fourteenth Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I am sure we will have an opportunity to pay tribute to the work Senator O'Toole did on the committee, but in fairness the House should note that he has behaved with great honour and integrity. It is for reasons that are completely understandable and to maintain the highest ethical standards he has sought to be discharged from membership of the committee. I very much regret that he has...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I support the amendment tabled by Senator Fidelma Healy Eames which is a very good one. I have also been lobbied, not by the vocational education committee in my own area, although there are many distinguished VEC operations, including the Dublin institutes of technology, with which I have worked, but I believe by the vocational education authority, VEA, the group which represents all of them.

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I beg the Senator's pardon.

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I also thank Senator Healy Eames. The Irish Vocational Education Association naturally feels its powers, role and status are being diminished somewhat, even though I am sure it agrees with the necessity for efficiency and the way in which this will be sharpened by the legislation. I spoke with Senator Healy Eames just before the Bill was brought before the House about the nature of her...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for his directness and honesty. Of course, it would be a great shame and appalling if the Bill fell because it is in the interests of students. They have lobbied all of us through their representatives. The Bill must go through as urgently as possible to make things equal for students. Some students are being paid in January and others in April, although they...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I have the Bill here, if the Senator wants it.

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: May I make clear precisely what the gap is? Senator Healy Eames's amendment was to insert, between lines 5 and 6 on page 30, the words, "consultation with relevant parties, and". Section 20(10) reads: The Minister may prescribe procedures in respect of the determination of an appeal by an appeals officer pursuant to this section and may provide for such matters as-- (a) information to be...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: May I make one final point to assist the Minister of State and provide some degree of support? Section 20(1) reads: An awarding authority shall designate such and so many members of the staff of the authority as it considers appropriate to be appeals officers under this section and a person so designated shall be an appeals officer for such period as the authority may determine. The...

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I commend the two Ministers who were involved, namely, the Minister of State who is present and the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills. I also pay tribute to the staff of the Department of Education and Skills who have worked very hard on this and the civil servants who are in attendance and who were in a position to supplement the advice given to the House by the Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

David Norris: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

David Norris: I regret that, owing to a diary conflict, I am unlikely to be present to pay tribute to the leaders of 1916 in the presence of their descendents. I ask the Leader to transmit personally my feelings that they were men of vision and chivalry. They had a poetic vision of Ireland and gave us the extraordinary and wonderfully liberating Proclamation that Padraig Pearse read at the GPO. I would...