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

David Norris: That was only a one-day lapse, for which I think I can be forgiven. It is a serious point. Where are these wonderful places from which the Minister suggested they might come? Did I hear Sicily and Las Vegas?

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

David Norris: Yes. They can expect the same bunch to come in. It is shades of Meyer Wolfsheim and the fixing of the 1918 World Series. I expect the Minister will get a good deal of shady competition in this respect but we would be much better off keeping the national lottery and not selling it. If we do sell it we should let the Irish people know, in the Title of the Bill, that what it says on the tin...

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

David Norris: How about the rent?

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

David Norris: I have a few comments on the language used.

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

David Norris: Yes. The section is directed by language. I would have thought that was clear, philosophically. A tender implies a contract and a sale. The Minister of State is wrong to say one cannot sell a lease. Of course, one can and it happens every day. If one goes to London, buildings are often not bought outright as they are so enormously expensive. One buys a lease. The cost may be €1...

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

David Norris: I will be uncharacteristically brief. Section 3 of the Bill repeals the 1986 Act. Section 2 provides that "Minister" means the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I presume this is a transfer of authority from the Minister for Finance?

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

David Norris: I thought so. Thank you.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I give a guarded welcome to this Bill dealing with abortion because it is very little, very late and does not address significant issues such as rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality. If I were a woman I would not be reassured by being told the legislators are apparently not concerned with the health of a woman. They should be. It is not enough simply to state that there should be a...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

David Norris: Could we discuss this and have honesty - not necessarily so much courtesy - about the tobacco industry and the very devious ways it attempts to induce people to give themselves cancer?

Seanad: Charities Regulation: Motion (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I compliment my colleagues on tabling this very important motion. I have just come from a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and a series of other briefings. We are very busy in the Seanad today, but there are a number of issues I wish to raise. I am very glad that the motion has not been amended, that it has been accepted and that there will not be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I have the luxury of being an Independent Member, which I find quiet useful. It allows me to be undiplomatic from time to time but I do this in a way that I do not think is hostile. I am friendly and well disposed to the United States, which I am sure will come as a huge relief to that immense country. Let me preface my question by stating I have been on this committee for a long time....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: They were hinting at it and they have done it with America.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I take the point, but that is the general context. It is blackmail. There are no two ways about it. We see similar instances from China and it happens in other countries as well. I am interested in the question of adverse effects because of people like me speaking out. What is Mr. Cotter's view of people like myself raising these issues? I intend to continue to raise them, not in away...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: Yes. I do not believe that capital worries about people like myself raising issues. I think capital flows in the direction in which the greatest profit can be made. Will Mr. Cotter give his views on the sensitivities of American capital to old lefties like me saying that one should not bump people off without giving them a trial?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: If they do not wish to answer my question, they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: This is a political committee. They are big boys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I am not at all surprised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: Sorry; Mr. Cotter is satirising-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: I am talking about the general raising of the issues. I made a light-hearted comment that I felt the United States would not be worried about my concerns. I am well aware of my insignificance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: Is it Mr. Cotter's view that there would be particular sensitivity or could it cause Ireland commercial damage?