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Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Yes, they did. That has been acknowledged and is on the public record — the American Administration spirited out members of the bin Laden family after 9/11. In that context I call for a debate on terrorism so we can flush this stuff out and shame Bush and his criminal associates.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: It is a pity the concert is not going ahead because it would be an opportunity to show the city of Dublin. On the other hand, the works in O'Connell Street, which will make it a very fine street when it is finished, are not completed and there may be security problems. I did, however, have to laugh at the bregrudgery on RTE radio when somebody said it should be cancelled because it was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Excuse me, this is a serious point. I raised this previously. I warned that people would be killed because of this kind of thing, and people were subsequently killed. I am serious about it. I went into a supermarket where there were four-packs available after 11 p.m. and bottles of wine. I asked if I could buy a bottle of whiskey and was told "yes". The person behind the counter was not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: ——-referred to payback time. RTE has made programmes coming up to an election, for example about the hepatitis C case which targeted Deputy Noonan. There was also a very interesting analytical programme about the splits within Fine Gael and so on. I was taken off the air a year before the Seanad election was even declared. Recently, although no election has been declared, there was a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Could the Senator inform us which is his city? We know his church because he told us about it, and his party.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: What about judges who refuse to impose mandatory sentences?

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Sir Anthony to the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: In a supermarket, yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Senator Mansergh should empty his pockets at once.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: I object to that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: They do not have a right to close down freedom of speech, which is an essential democratic principle.

Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: I welcome this excellent motion. It nails the Government's flag to the mast. It is particularly good that there is no amendment from the Opposition and that there is no attempt to play politics with this. Everyone in the House, including smokers and non-smokers, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour, the Progressive Democrats, Independents and others were behind the Minister on this. It is a very...

Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (31 Mar 2004)

David Norris: ——I will outline a way to avoid that, which is extraordinary. I was told by a woman who owns a travel agency that one should put a small piece of Vaseline in each nostril. I do not know whether the bugs try to fly up one's nostril and get stuck, but it stops one from getting a cold. Airlines should continue to change the air with reasonable frequency, although it is not polluted by...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2004)

David Norris: I support Senator Hayes on both matters. On the matter of the constitutional amendment, the Government side of the House has indicated strongly that it does not think the referendum should be held on the same day as the European and local elections, which is right. Members of a group of people in the House yesterday handed me a document which indicated that the most courageous and most...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2004)

David Norris: That is something we need to take into account. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, and the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, attacked An Taisce because it did not give membership to five applicants in the west who all had links with one-off holiday home developments. I should correct what I said earlier. It was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2004)

David Norris: I ask that early in the new session we would debate the motion in my name on Tibet because of the increasing closeness to Tibet and the unjustified and illegal change of policy. On 29 March, the Chinese authorities arrested three relatives of those killed in Tiananmen Square. We should take care, particularly as we hold the Presidency of the EU, to prevent France and Germany having the arms...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2004)

David Norris: ——the metro.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2004)

David Norris: I call for a debate on the metro in light of the leaked report from O'Reilly Consultants which comes out four square in favour of a metro. The debate on a metro began in this House.