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- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: What is wrong with being old-fashioned? I am a bit that way myself.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Is the Minister indicating a withdrawal of the amendment?
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Perhaps that could be considered.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: I have just returned from abroad and had not quite anticipated this debate. However, I am glad that it has been put down by my colleagues and I am happy to lend my name to it. I welcome it and I believe it is important that Senator Henry should have approached an area in which I am vitally concerned from a slightly different angle. I would like to say, at the beginning, that I have...
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Splendid. Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Does that apply even to a Fianna Fáil Minister? Surely not.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: That explains it.
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: How does the Senator know?
- Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 May 2004)
David Norris: Good.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 May 2004)
David Norris: I was somewhat amused by the squawks of self-interested protest from Members of this House regarding the Minister's courageous and appropriate action in addressing the scandalous issue of speed limits. I have been saying this for the past two years here and I am glad somebody has taken notice. One cannot get respect for speed limits if one does not have two things, fairness and consistency....
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: I support Senator Hayes's comments about AIB. I do not think it is acceptable to describe what happened as an error or a mistake. It seems to have been known to those at a certain level within the bank for a considerable period of time and is one of a catalogue of accidents in which AIB has been involved. I refer to the scandal in the United States in which large sums of money were lost and...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: I did not say that some Senators are councillors. I stand by my remark that there was an element of self-interest in the comments made yesterday.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: That is obviously the case, given that the local authority elections are coming up. The Senator should not think that I am a nincompoop.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: The Senator is welcome to go back to local government.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: Local government would be greatly enhanced by her return.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2004)
David Norris: Hear, hear.