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- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: That should nullify the deal. Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: The deal should be abrogated. It is vicious and corrupt.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I mean to support Senator Keane.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I wish to follow on from what Senator Keane said. It was important news about the banks. The financial situation is a matter on which I have consistently sought debates. Today, I seek that one aspect of the matter should be debated, namely, the question of eviction. I did not think I would live long enough in this country to see eviction being reintroduced. I send my congratulations to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister but was disappointed in his speech, which was pretty limp and failed to address the serious problem of standards and ethics in journalism. There are very few of them around. I have been a paid up member of the National Union of Journalists for many years. For three and a half years I worked honourably for what could be described as a tabloid newspaper. Since 1982 I...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I have had to change my telephone number on three or four occasions. How did grub street get my changed telephone number within 12 hours? I wish there was more time. I hope we will have a proper debate in which we do not shilly-shally and that we will have the guts to address the issue because there is not a newspaper, radio station or television station that has not vilified, blackguarded,...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: On a point of order, I wish to note that in my general criticisms of the press I should have exempted in recent times the Sunday Independent.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is no accident that Mr. McDowell got his article printed.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is a correction.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Are we not coming back?
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: There are no sanctions at all.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: That is no comfort to the families that have been violated. I was punished by the media for raising their cases. Perhaps the Minister will comment on the bullying of politicians by editors.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Yes. I have evidence.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: So am I.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Every single one of them is happening here.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Some sections of the press have. There is no doubt about it.