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- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
David Norris: The Taoiseach wants to abolish jobs in here.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I have one particular question for the Minister. I have always had sympathy for agency workers such as the people who were employed by Irish Shipping and such groups but there is a serious problem at the moment because the transposition of the EU agency workers directive is in the process of being done in what seems to be an inflexible way. I ask the Minister to review this transposition....
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Is there any way it can be now encouraged?
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
David Norris: He eventually came.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Ar an gcéad dul sÃos, ba mhaith liom beannachtaà agus dea-ghuà a thabhairt do na hAirà agus Airà Stáit go léir a bheidh ag taisteal thar lear ar son an Stáit seo ar Lá Fhéile Pádraig. I am delighted my colleagues have said what they have. It is very important for us to send these ambassadors abroad. I am only sorry nobody is going to Brazil and some of the other BRIC countries....
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
David Norris: In addition I hope the Government jet is used more frequently because it is a capital asset that is decreasing in value all the time it is on the ground. It should be used as much as possible. In addition to the decreasing capital value, it needs air crew and ground crew on standby. It needs to be flown around the country twice a week if it is empty to keep it going. We are wasting money...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: No. We have no leader, as the Cathaoirleach knows.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: If the Cathaoirleach is calling me, I am grateful. I congratulate Mr. Seán Gallagher on the decision he received from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI. It was appropriate. I listened to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, on every radio station. He consistently described the situation as a mistake, but I do not believe that to have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I spoke of him with great respect and in the highest terms, as I am sure the Cathaoirleach will agree. I was simply confirming that the election was appropriate, but that its context needed to be considered. Every party committed to a review of the electoral process. When it was reviewed by an all-party committee in 1996, three principal recommendations were made to make it easier for...
- Seanad: Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Is there any prospect of Goldman Sachs being held accountable for its criminal involvement for which it received â¬600 million for cooking the books for the Greeks?
- Seanad: Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I understand. I thank the Acting Chairman. However, the Minister might answer the question that he did not hear legally.
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister. I am glad I heard the last remarks of my distinguished colleague, Senator Wilson, which I endorse wholeheartedly. It grieves me that we have these chains, many of them from Britain, which have an aggressive policy of undercutting the competition. They have loss leading brands, they create hyper markets and they drain the life out of small towns and even out of the...
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Well done. I thank the Minister for making that point. One of the first people to chair the Competition Authority was Dr. John Fingleton, whom I knew from Trinity followed by William Prastifka. Dr. Fingleton indicated that advancing better practices cost about â¬4 billion a year, and that was in 2004. The point that this group makes, however undiplomaticly, is that it is very difficult to...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Comhghairdeachas leat.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2012)
David Norris: The Senator can give Senator Moran a minute or two of her time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
David Norris: We know about the man with the garlic cloves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.