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- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: It shows the wonderful ignorance of the Senator because the President cannot interfere in these kinds of matters. If I had, I would have been impeached. However, I would have been impeached long before it because I would have asked Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping a few questions about Tibet-----
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: -----and the bodies of the Chinese who were murdered and now exhibited in the Rotunda. We never hear any of those when Ministers are galloping across looking for money.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: Austerity has never worked in the history of human economy.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: Let us consider US President Roosevelt. What got America going again? Investment-----
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: How did the Americans get the stability? They did not do it by bankrupting countries or reducing the workers' wages down to a pittance. They did not do it by closing down every service and dehumanising the country in which they lived.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: The Senator has his history wrong as well.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: It is necessary to stimulate the economy. I will be voting "No". I object to being told that because I am saying this is dishonest and fraudulent.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: That has been said very widely and it was hinted by Senators on the Government side a few minutes ago.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: This country will be locked into a series of debt commitments which it cannot possibly meet if we pass this referendum. In addition it will further deepen the recession.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: I shall wind up by saying this.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: I voted for most of the treaties. I campaigned and voted against the Lisbon treaty over concerns about the armaments industry in Europe. I got a written commitment from the then Government which allowed me to change my mind. Nobody can say I attacked every treaty. I ultimately voted for every one when I got the assurances I wanted. I have got none on this one. For the first time I am...
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: I believe there is a moral responsibility on every person in Ireland - in public life and in private life - to consider very carefully how they will vote because they are not just voting for themselves.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: They are also voting for the suppressed people of Greece. I will not blackguard anybody who votes "Yes", but I will not stand for being blackguarded for having the conscience to say "No" on behalf of people who are being driven into starvation and humiliation. I had to laugh at Senator White when she said that entrepreneurs would be put off if people who had more than â¬100,000 were taxed...
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: Poodles spring to mind.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Cooperation and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (17 May 2012)
David Norris: One surely informs the insurer of one's house first.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2012)
David Norris: I ask for a debate on the economy. This is a war situation. As I predicted, we are experiencing the slow-motion disintegration of capitalism as we know it. I ask the Leader to ask the Government to call for the establishment of the international financial court to try individuals and groups for economic crimes against humanity. This happened after the Nuremberg trials in Germany in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2012)
David Norris: We know from where it is coming. We know from which part of Europe it is emerging. I am asking for a debate on the economy in order that we can make a small move to correct the disaster facing us which some of us were able to predict, which has not been tackled in a radical fashion and which the signing of the treaty will make worse.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2012)
David Norris: Well said. The Senator is quite entitled to ask that question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2012)
David Norris: And a third, a fourth and a fifth and they will have to be accounted for.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2012)
David Norris: And the ESM is inviolable.