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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: We can talk in the abstract about the housing market but the simple fact is that an enormous number of people simply cannot pay. They have been squeezed dry. I was delighted to hear Senator MacSharry fulminate on this subject and I hope Fianna Fáil will give a commitment that at the next election that it will revoke this grossly unjust tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: It might if it is going into government with Sinn Féin. I welcome the Caritas report. I am sometimes critical of political aspects of the Vatican but I salute the Roman Catholic Church in particular for this wonderful report over the entire range of European countries worst affect by austerity. It shows clearly that austerity does not work and that it has introduced structural unemployment...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: We are told the property tax will be a local tax that will go back into the local economy. Who believes that? It is a load of rubbish because we are already paying for these services. We pay for refuse, the roads through car tax, and now we will be paying for water. What is left? It is a tissue of nonsense. This is wrong, stupid and immoral and I am making up a checklist and will add to...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I wish the Senator would shout louder; I cannot hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Did Senator Keane say Senator Cullinane had no respect for life? Was that what was said? I did not hear the comment but if she made the remark I thought I heard, that Senator Cullinane has no respect for life, I ask respectfully that it be withdrawn. The Cathaoirleach should ask her to withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Goodness me, is the Senator really pregnant?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: The overriding clause in the Constitution of "the public good" has never be used.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Is Senator Kelly suggesting that the property tax is an incentive to work?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: It is a serious thing and very unfortunate for her poor husband. He is the person who should be considered and Members should not be scoring points here.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I referred to a checklist for 2016.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: First of all, I would not have started from here.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I accept that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, is a decent, good, highly intelligent man and within his own parameters he has done a brilliant job, of that there is no doubt. I think it is disgraceful that we started from there. We should historically nail the situation firmly into the record that Jean Claude Trichet twisted the arm of an already ill Irish Minister for Finance, the decent late...

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: They should be jailed, the whole bloody lot of them.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I know.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: If the Senator mentions the ratings agencies, he is asking for it.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I voted against the guarantee.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: You can say that again. That is an example of litotes, under-emphasis for the sake of effect.

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Well said.