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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

David Norris: Titular.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

David Norris: That should be abolished.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

David Norris: In raising a point of order I hope my colleague will refer to the slip of the tongue which was Freudian when Mr. Donlan talked about the responsibility of Irish diplomats in the implementation of Vatican policy. That takes us back a few years.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

David Norris: Is a parallel being drawn between the Pope and Gadaffi?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

David Norris: The welfare of the people is continually suppressed in the interests of the system. In an article in Rolling Stone in 2009 Matt Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money". I have been raising such issues as Goldman Sachs, the banking system and the ratings agencies...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

David Norris: The electricity supply to the people in Priory Hall is being cut off because the building is being pumped out. What were they building? Was it a boat? What kind of building needs to be pumped out? Let us have a debate on these broad issues of principle, which is one of the things for which the Seanad was established.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

David Norris: Watch and learn.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: I repeat my call for a general discussion on the economy in light of the apparent decision to sell off part of Bord Gáis. We have been instructed by our economic masters that we have to sell off some of the heirlooms that were carefully built up by various governments and government agencies and utilities.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: This is a matter which needs to be discussed in this House. We are told now that we may be permitted to use some of this money for reinvestment in jobs. What about the assets? I will table a motion that we re-adopt the Keating principles. I hope the Labour Party will support me on this. The people are entitled to a just proportion of their assets. There seems to be a complete lack of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: However, it interesting that Father Peter McVerry made a point that I, too, have made previously, that there is a certain spiritual danger in the fiction of a state and a state apparatus being sustained by the Vatican. It is not a country. It has accreditation with the United Nations and so on. If one looks at the interventions at diplomatic and UN level, of the Vatican as a state, they...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: If we only had the opportunity to buy it at market rates.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: It was a very bad deal done by-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: That is all rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: I am.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this debate and I agree very much with what Senator Hayden has said. It is important that we encourage all of society to be represented at political levels. We do not want to go in the direction of the United States of America, where one has to be a millionaire to get into any kind of politics, and certainly to run for the presidency,...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: -----and have been treated as a marginalised minority. We have had to introduce special legislation to encourage them to get into politics. I am not standing over imposing any further financial hardship on people who have the guts to get up, get involved and get engaged in politics. We need to encourage it. It should not be penalised from a position of hypocrisy by a party that takes...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: Although good relations have been established on a personal basis between us, I will not take hogwash and I do not want the Minister to take from this debate that every Independent Member kowtows to the kind of things that may be in the pipeline. I know the country is in a difficult financial situation. However, if we want the political system to work we must encourage independent voices...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: The Senator takes the full whack.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: On a point of order, I think the Senator is misleading his constituency.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment)(Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2012)

David Norris: He does not have a geographical constituency.