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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Do Senators want to vote for Senator Quinn’s amendment?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: It is a question of whether Senators want to vote for Senator Feargal Quinn's amendment.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: If the amendment is defeated, we get another vote.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: If we vote for Senator Quinn’s amendment and it is accepted, we will have succeeded in deferring the referendum for three months.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: If it fails, we can vote again. Is that right?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: That is not what the Cathaoirleach said the first time.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Of course it does.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: What about the following? The amendment is very clear. It is not just deleting but actually deleting and substituting. Why can we not address this amendment?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: We are not, because the Cathaoirleach has left out a substantial portion of it.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: No. I demand a proper explanation. The Cathaoirleach is refusing to put a legitimate question. White, Mary M.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

David Norris: I propose 17 September.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: I salute Pope Francis I, who is emerging as one of the great figures of the 21st century. I say that because on his first journey outside Rome he recognised the plight of the people in desperation from north Africa trying to make it to "Fortress Europe". It was a dangerous position for a Pope to take. He will be opposed by all the right-wing governments in northern Europe, but I found it...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Yes. Would the Leader please write on our behalf to the Swedish Academy to ask it to withdraw the Nobel Prize it gave without evidence – to use the current phrase – to Mr. Obama before he had been tried, while he was on probation? He has now shown himself to be in the same class as Mr. Bush and I think it should be-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: It is absolutely. It is relevant to the world. The academy should take back the Nobel Prize and give it to Mr. Snowden for letting us know what is happening in these murky areas.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: And it privileges the banks too.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

David Norris: Splendid.