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Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

David Norris: That has nothing to do with it. Senator Ryan is obsessed. He ought to give it up. He has an inferiority complex.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear, absolutely, and quite right too.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

David Norris: I support Senator Callanan's comments on yesterday's apology by Prime Minister Blair. Apologies are usually facile and redundant. I agree that it should be followed up with some action, particularly in regard to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The appropriate papers should be made available and individuals made responsible and accountable. It is dreadful to imagine that agents of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

David Norris: There was a certain sneering tone in some of the contributions. I wonder if Members realise how that may be regarded in the sister isle, if they ever heard of it, or in the North of Ireland. We are always cosying up to the North of Ireland, saying how nice we want to be to the Unionists. Let us really show it then. Yesterday, the House debated the tabloidisation of news and Prince Charles and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

David Norris: ——I always like to be helpful in cases of distress and, through the Chair, I wish to address his inferiority complex. Trinity College, Dublin, is open to mature students. I expect he might qualify and get the tie after four years.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: This is a black day for Seanad Éireann. I am ashamed of what is happening here today, as are many Senators on all sides of the House regardless of their position on the Civil Partnership Bill 2004. I intend to withdraw the Bill to spare the shame of the Government or, perhaps, to rub it in in an ironic way. I will not be present this evening and I will not move the motion for the Second...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: ——whose socialist caring face has now been ripped off. When I left my meeting with him, I thought I had been given the sun, the moon and the stars, as most people do. As I walked down the corridor, the stars started to twinkle more dimly and the moon dimmed. As I emerged from Government Buildings, the sun went out. It has finally gone into eclipse here today. As a democrat, I want to be...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: ——that it is a perfect Bill, that it is incapable of being amended or that it could not be withdrawn at some stage to be replaced by a better Bill. However, the Government has not made any proposal in this regard. I am worried because the Government acted against the principles enunciated by the former Minister, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who said she would require clear and cogent factual...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: Instead of addressing that inequality, the Government introduced legislation that copperfastened it by redefining a "spouse". I am disgusted by the Government's behaviour today. I oppose the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: We can have a debate on it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: I accept that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: It deals with marriage. I made a submission which was rejected.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: I have accepted that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: We accept what the Leader says but the debate on the Bill could be adjourned.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: That is not the point. I do not want to be misrepresented. I strongly resent the Leader's remarks and ask her to withdraw them. I have not tried to stop Senators speaking but suggested that the debate be adjourned so the House can have further debates. The Leader should not, therefore, say that I and other Senators are against debate or do not want to hear the views of others. I will make my...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: In that case, the Government parties should not vote down the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: No.

Seanad: Civil Partnership Bill 2004: Order for Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."

Seanad: Civil Partnership Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Leader and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for the flexible manner in which they have dealt with this Bill. It looked this morning as if we might not have this debate as the intention seemed to be to vote the Bill down. That would have been the end of it as the Bill would have been torpedoed. There was some...

Seanad: Civil Partnership Bill 2004: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

David Norris: It is not curable.