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- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I call on my friend Senator MacSharry to withdraw that statement because it-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is an appalling comment to have made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: The Senator could go for a nice walk in the sea breezes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear. She was installed yesterday evening as a pro-chancellor of Trinity College.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: In what way were they insulting?
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: A sure sign the Senator is wrong.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Does the Senator pray for Queen Elizabeth?
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I meant Queen Elizabeth I.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: On a point of order, I am not calling for a quorum but is one required for a prayer?
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: The Senator has not a prayer there.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: That is completely wrong.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I demand a vote.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I recognise the presence of some distinguished visitors, including Bishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Orissa in India, at the invitation of Senator Mullen. There is a country where one has a real problem, where one has both the guarantee of freedom of conscience and an anti-conversion law. That is where one has a problem with tolerance that gives rise to difficulty. I wish to correct...
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It was Billy Wicklow's father, who himself became Roman Catholic when he married Eleanor Butler but his father was Church of Ireland. The supporters were people such as Colonel Moore and Mr. Benjamin Haughton. First, they ran it past the Anglican archbishop and then they could not find the Roman Catholic one so they ran it past the administrator of the Pro-Cathedral. They more or less got...
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: That is virtually all I have to say. I am not against the Angelus, the crib or our tradition but as a believing, practising, church-going Christian I find the prayer deeply offensive. I find it very undemocratic that the time for the debate was changed. It was supposed to start at 1.30 p.m. and a vote taken beforehand-----
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: In that case I withdraw my remark but I understood the business was to be taken at 1.30 p.m. There was confusion. I will vote on the matter, but I want Members to understand that my decision is not anti-Catholic, anti-Christian or anti-religious. Rather, I respect those precious values. Unpleasant notes were sent. I received seven or eight notes, but none was unpleasant. Some were a bit...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It will not protect one of those informants I used in this House on Adjournment debates and in other matters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It will not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Tell that to the journalists in the tabloids.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
David Norris: He would have to buy that newspaper.