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- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: People might resent it as a sunset clause.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The Chair should not instruct Members what to do. They should be left floating because that is a way we could defeat them. The Chair's intervention was improper.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is up to them to make up their own minds. Direction from the Chair is not helpful. I speak as someone who managed to defeat a Government on precisely this point. There was confusion and it was helpful.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The Chair should not instruct Members what to do. They should be left floating because that is a way we could defeat them. The Chair's intervention was improper.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is up to them to make up their own minds. Direction from the Chair is not helpful. I speak as someone who managed to defeat a Government on precisely this point. There was confusion and it was helpful.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: No. That relates to amendment No. 4. The Senator is speaking to amendment No. 3.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I would like to strongly support this amendment and it is for that reason I added my name to it. First, this is a question of openness, transparency and accountability, of that there is no doubt. I remember when the Competition Authority legislation was going through this House under the direction of a previous Minister, who subsequently curiously became Minister for Health, the then...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The same lack of logic applies to it.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is not logical.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Surely it is at the most critical stage when it is in transition.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: No. That relates to amendment No. 4. The Senator is speaking to amendment No. 3.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I would like to strongly support this amendment and it is for that reason I added my name to it. First, this is a question of openness, transparency and accountability, of that there is no doubt. I remember when the Competition Authority legislation was going through this House under the direction of a previous Minister, who subsequently curiously became Minister for Health, the then...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The same lack of logic applies to it.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is not logical.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Surely it is at the most critical stage when it is in transition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I compliment the Chairman on also looking well in his traditional dress.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Chairman. May I say how welcome and instructive the visit of our distinguished guests is. Some of the questions I was going to ask have been at least partially answered. I was going to ask about the significance of cultural determinants because these are terribly important. I do not think we can afford to be too superior in this country. I am quite elderly, which comes as a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Can men sign up to it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
David Norris: If there were illegal activities, these should be reported to the Garda.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
David Norris: Then there is an investigation ongoing.