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Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Feb 2004)

David Norris: By the Dutch ambassador and Niall Andrews as well.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Has the Senator a question for the Leader?

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Chair the forum.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I agree with the sentiments expressed by my colleagues on electronic voting. Apart from that, I will confine my remarks on this to congratulating myself on having raised this issue some months ago in this House, before it was raised in the Dáil. As I am in a congratulatory mood, I ask the House to join with me in congratulating Professor O'Leary--——

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Then I will just do it myself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I think it is appropriate to refer to a principle underlying the announcement of a very important discovery by Professor O'Leary regarding testing for cervical cancer. He seems to have made a discovery which will make the return of test results much more efficient, rapid and accurate. More important — this is a matter I have raised previously in regard to other disciplines — the most...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: That is my own name.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: The House will probably want to recognise the presence in the Visitors Gallery of a distinguished representative of South America.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Continuing on the foreign affairs area, will the Leader arrange for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Cowen, to come into the House to explain policy formation in principal areas of Irish foreign policy, following the announcement in the newspaper in recent days that we are giving full diplomatic recognition to the military junta in Burma? This seems extraordinary. We continually hear...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: ——mild revolt against any idea that we should treat Tibet, which has always been accepted as a distinct and separate entity, as an internal Chinese question. We now find that the Department of Foreign Affairs has done what successive representatives of Ireland have said is utterly wrong and illegal. There is nothing in the treaties or the diplomatic documents——

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: ——we have signed stating we recognise Tibet as part of China. We do not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: If we want to recognise it as such, the Government must bring the matter before both Houses of the Oireachtas. I ask the Leader to request that the Minister for Foreign Affairs come to the House to debate the question of Burma.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Free the Colombia 2,000.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: It is on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I support Senator Brian Hayes in welcoming a human rights debate involving the situation in Colombia. As people refer to those known as the Colombia three who admitted to having been found using false passports in an area controlled by the FARC guerrillas, I am sure we will remember the Colombia 2,000 — the 2,000 people kidnapped, tortured and held for ransom by the FARC guerrillas. I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: The comments of the Minister, Deputy Cullen, are a good example.