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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I like the sound of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

David Norris: This meeting will not be reported either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I will have to go to the Seanad for Private Members' business so I hope I will be able to get in to talk about Magnitsky but if not, perhaps I might be alerted when there is going to be a vote on it. Mr. Andrews, who is a former Minister of State, and Mr. Glasgow are very welcome. Mr. Andrews is continuing in the fine tradition of his father, David Andrews. I remember him coming to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Norris: Bravo.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I warmly congratulate Senator Barrett. I do not remember an occasion when the Government accepted such significant legislation in the economic sphere from this side of the House. The importance of the Financial Stability and Reform Bill cannot be overestimated. I ask the Leader to ensure it is put on the A list, which is the way forward. At a human level, I understand that to have people...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Norris: That is something wonderfully positive and good. Let us celebrate it.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: The Senator will be known as "monsignor".

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: It confirms my suspicions, Monsignor Mullen.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I welcome the fact that the Government appears to be making the first hesitant steps towards taking a humane view on the troubled subject of abortion. I deprecate the level of hypocrisy, abuse and heckling that goes on from people who are opposed to this. The real mistake was in 1983, when the theological position of one church in this country - that the fertilised egg represents a full...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: It is ridiculous. My colleague here, who spoke about it earlier, referred yesterday on the radio to opponents using bogus science, and he instanced somebody who could be clearly identified as a psychiatrist as practising the corruption of medicine. I would have thought that was actionable. It most certainly does not represent respectful dialogue, courtesy or anything like that. Other...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: Yes. I am asking for a debate on this so that we can put on the record the truth about these things, uncomfortable as it may be. The American Psychological Association evaluated all the results in 2008.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: It stated: The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver that pregnancy. In 2011, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in Britain, with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, published its report on...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I am just ending. Its report stated: “Having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems.” That is the definitive professional opinion, not the opinion of people who seek to damage the reputation of psychiatrists-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: -----by accusing them of bogus science and of corruption of medicine. That was a disgraceful comment that should never have been made. I hope it will not be repeated in the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: The Senator could make hay out of anything.

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: I agree totally with my good colleague, Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell, about the naming of the Bill. I do not understand why there should be any resistance to telling the public exactly what it is, namely, the sale of the national lottery. That is what we are doing; we are selling the national lottery. I believe in honesty. I know it is not fashionable but it is good to be honest, and...

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: No; I am not. I am talking about what happens when public assets are sold off. That is wrong and I wonder why companies would pay such enormous amounts of money unless they were going to be able to print their own money out of it. Mention was made of competition. It is about time we started revising drastically our view about the virtues of competition. It can drive people out of business...

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2013)

David Norris: It has, because we are selling Ireland, so to speak. We are selling bits and pieces of Ireland, as we have done in allowing these supermarkets to come in here. Competition was invoked by the Minister. That idea is ludicrous. I remember being here when a previous Government introduced the Competition Bill, under which everyone had to compete for everything and everything had to be...