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- Seanad: Decade of Commemorations: Statements (7 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am happy to end on a high note and to congratulate Sligo. I know that these are difficult times for the Minister and that he will do battle with the Department of Finance but he will go down in history if, with our support, he manages to fight the mergers. What a wonderful way to celebrate. What a brilliant idea to celebrate the freedom that we won, the parliamentary democracy that we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Seanad is honoured today by the presence of Dr. Nada Dhaif in the Visitors Gallery. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has dishonoured the name of Ireland by its inaction and the fact it dismissed some of its graduates in Bahrain at the instigation of the Bahrainian authorities. That is absolutely reprehensible and it should be held to account by public opinion for this. Dr....
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I call for a debate on this issue because it is very important we have one.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Appalling.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Well said. We might need legislation too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Leader seemed to agree last week to a full debate on this matter in response to other Members.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Deputy Leader for her kind remarks about Bloomsday. I was pleased to send a message of congratulations to her colleague, Senator Susan O'Keeffe, about Yeats Day. The President has graciously accepted our invitation to attend the opening of Bloomsday at 8 p.m. in the James Joyce Centre. I wish to raise a serious issue that I have raised previously and which is covered by No. 23,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am calling for a debate on this report for the reasons I have just set out. The entire political system has been corrupted and vitiated and politicians made terrified. Against this background, I was astonished by the observation made by the Press Ombudsman of Ireland on "Morning Ireland" on 29 May that the message from the Leveson inquiry to British newspaper editors was that the current...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: -----is of the view that the system is merely "not quite up to scratch." We must have a full debate on all of these issues in order that the people can be protected in an increasingly vicious situation where, because of financial pressure on newspapers, young journalists, in particular, are being bullied. Editors are the worst people in many of the lowest elements of the press because it is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The author of the report stands over it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: It begs the question as to whether pressure was applied to the organisation to do so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Creation ab nihilo.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am very happy to return to the English department at any time if-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Splendid. Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is highly unlikely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: If Germany had invaded, they would have been damned fools not to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I would have supported them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I would have supported the British.