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- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I sometimes-----
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: They are even better.
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: On a point of order, I would like direction as to whether it is appropriate for a Member of the Oireachtas to openly challenge a judgment of the Supreme Court, as has just been done?
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: It is not appropriate.
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I understand the judgment of the Chair is now being challenged as well. That is very worrying in a democratic House.
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: This is an extremely important debate and what has happened here today in this House illustrates that. It is remarkable that every woman who spoke here took a charitable and understanding view of the complex issues. However, not all of the men did so. It was very courageous of Senator Power to put her personal story, with all its complexity, before the House and to illustrate that Fianna...
- Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I do not care what kind of unpleasant letters are sent to me anymore. It does not bother me at all. I want to nail my colours to the mast and say this - I believe that a woman has the right to choose, not just in the circumstances indicated in the major case, but also in the circumstance where there is severe foetal abnormality and the foetus has no capacity to live or where there is incest...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: My views are broken down into two parts. First, I extend a genuine and sincere welcome to the Bill. I congratulate Senator Bacik who prepared the original Bill on which I seem to remember speaking, and the Minister for introducing this Bill. May I say that this debate again shows the direct relevance of this Chamber? I hope the Minister will take this point back to her colleagues in the...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I will make another point before I do so. It is a disgrace that the Unitarian Church, which is included in the list, is not permitted to solemnise marriage between people of the same sex as it wishes to do. It is right that the church I have named is being given the power to marry people under a fairly strict regime, but it is not right that it is being denied the religious freedom to do...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I have heard the Chair's message loud and clear. My final point is that those who go forth and multiply - that phrase is sometimes used in a disparaging way - should do so in a moderate fashion because we have been bred off this planet by heterosexual excess.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
David Norris: A happy combination.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I support my colleague Senator Quinn in asking that we take notice of the situation regarding the Sri Lankan citizen. I am aware of this case and Members of both Houses have taken this matter on board. I also watched with interest the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Diarmuid Martin. I thought he was in an awkward position and dealt with it reasonably well. I was surprised he repeated something...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I refer to the communication I mentioned to the Cathaoirleach yesterday. It is addressed "To the Governors and the subject people of the island of Ireland". Sirs, it is nigh three hundred years since my last epistle. I then had lifted my pen to warn the people of the calamity about to befall the nation from the imposition of a debased currency on the citizenry to their grave disadvantage...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I am. The question is coming and is addressed to the Cathaoirleach. I refer to an impoverishment of the citizenry, the establishment of soup kitchens for the destitute, eviction of those in arrears of debt, rack-renting for those with the temerity to improve their properties and the recreation of the memories of hedge schools for our children. And all this to pay for the Grasshopper's...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: ----- to render the real money bled from the plain people useless by destruction; this to be done in the course of a further extravagance taking the form of a pyrotechnic display during which the furnaces of the Central Bank will be employed to the withering of our substance. Is it not appropriate that though not invited, and indeed not even cognisant of the original party, the people of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: It would be rubbish.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Total moonshine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: A swift response would be appropriate.