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Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

David Norris: This is wrong. As legislators, we ought to look at and address that subject.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Mar 2005)

David Norris: I am looking for a debate on the report of the Human Rights Commission with particular regard to the legislative deficit. The people have told us what they want and it is in the Constitution, but we are afraid to deal with it. I also wish to ask for a debate on the situation involving a family who went on air to publicise the difficulties they face with four autistic children. I heard that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

David Norris: I agree with colleagues who raised the subject of the IRA statement. That organisation could not possibly have given a clearer or more convincing illustration of its own innate criminality than it did in the statement. It was approached about one murder which was so brutal, vicious and cruel that people within its community compared it to the operations of the Shankill butchers some years ago...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

David Norris: It was The Irish Times.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (9 Mar 2005)

David Norris: I thank Senator Quinn for this opportunity to make a small contribution to this debate. I admire his handling of the subject because, unlike the tweedledum and tweedledee of the Government and the Opposition, he did not spend time in carping negative comments and tried to put forward a sensible and practical suggestion that addresses the real social situation. The House should always operate...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: I support Senator Dooley's request for a debate on this matter. He suggested that the newspaper reports are inaccurate and that the information provided came from dubious sources. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Irish Times and the Irish Examiner have all carried stories relating to this matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: I do not know what else the Senator wants of people reporting on this issue. I questioned the American ambassador on this subject and he informed me that the US Government has provided its Irish counterpart with a categoric assurance that no prisoners, in the condition that has been reported, were taken through Shannon Airport. He did not state, however, that this was not his Government's...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: ——on their way to kidnap people and bring them to third countries to be tortured. One of the methods of such torture is to use surfboards in the drowning of people until their lungs burst. This technique was perfected by the Gestapo in the Avenue Foch. Senator Dooley may be satisfied that Ireland is involved——

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: ——in that kind of disgraceful behaviour but I certainly am not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: Would the Leader be prepared to lay before the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána the evidence which has been assembled and which clearly constitutes a prima facie case for the involvement of this country in the commission of war crimes? There is an obligation on the police to examine this matter. I will certainly make available whatever information I possess. If the Leader, on behalf of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: He has rejoined the Commonwealth.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

David Norris: Where?

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: Did I hear a question?

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: I agree with Senators Maurice Hayes and White. At the beginning of Senator White's contribution, it seemed from a technical point of view there was a lack of a question. However, she is quite right. I do not approve of the suppression of facts and material. This has happened in the case of the inquiry into the murder of the solicitor, Pat Finucane, and the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: This is not the way we in Ireland want to run our democracy. The sooner the Turks are told this, the better. I concur with Senator O'Meara's view that as we have become more prosperous, we have become less caring, as evidenced by the recent case in Irish Ferries. To my shame, I heard of the case on the BBC World Service when I was abroad. The report stated an Irish company had been found in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: He was not helped by you.

Seanad: Expressions of Sympathy on the Death of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

David Norris: I will not dissent from the terms of this motion, although I regret that it was changed and that the message will be sent not to the Camerlengo but to Cardinal Ratzinger, about whom I must say, in the words of an English parliamentarian, I feel there is something of the night. Nevertheless, it is important that we mark this event. I also understand that the motions were placed simultaneously...