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- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The greatest tyrant was dead.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I beg the Leader's pardon. I wonder whether at some stage he could give me an answer on taking No. 23, motion 9, the report of the Press Ombudsman?
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is the perfect word to describe them.
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and she is a rare jewel in the Government. I wish to share my time equally, with the indulgence of the House, with my colleague and friend, Senator Feargal Quinn.
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I wish to acknowledge the presence in the Visitors Gallery of an old friend and former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Michael O'Halloran. We need to adopt a positive view and a bit of vision. Mr. Michael O'Halloran showed vision by founding the Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament. We need to think not just in terms of a medical model, although it is terribly important, but also in terms of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I express concern about No. 1 on the Order Paper in which it is stated there will be no Order of Business on Tuesday next. Unless the Leader is able to give a satisfactory explanation, I shall vote against the Order of Business today. Would the Leader be kind enough to clarify for me a serious report I have received? Apparently, there was a programme on Channel 10 News in Israel on which it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is not entirely true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Senator's approach is not terribly balanced. It is a smear balance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I wish to make a correction to what Senator Bradford has said and ask him to withdraw some of his comments, as I believe I have a right to do. The Senator is a good friend of mine but I take great offence at any suggestion that people like me who support Palestinian human rights were not involved in Syria - I was involved in Beirut at the peril of my own life - Iraq or Iran because I was.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: All I asked for was a clarification of a diplomatic communiqué because if it is true it is dynamite-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: -----and reflects on other issues, including a previous election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is the reason I wanted to speak the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: "The West's Awake".
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Look at what the media does with the information.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Both are legal and right and recognised as such.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Senator said the same yesterday. He should be fined for repetition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is a great tribute to the de Valera Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Leader. What about the Order of Business on Tuesday?