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Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: Yesterday alone I received 20 leaflets inviting me to go to the local off-licence. I do not need 20 invitations to drink. I also received four other leaflets ——

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: It is funny in one sense, but outrageous in another. If one is away for a few days, one's letterbox is stuffed up and any passing thief knows well that the house is empty. Apart from that, it is an invasion of people's own space. Very often young lads are hired to deliver the leaflets, they want to get rid of them, so they shove 20 or 30 into each letterbox.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: It is trying to pretend it is a reformatory.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: As they say, aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: Perhaps I have a touch of the lúdramán myself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: Will the Leader read a statement at this point?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: Private firms are responsible.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Statements. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I doubt that.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Statements. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: It sounds hysterical.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Statements. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Statements. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Conor Lenihan, and thank him for his introductory remarks. It is a pleasure to follow the civilised and humane contribution of Senator Lydon, who went straight to the heart of the matter of the impact on the lives of ordinary decent Iraqis. They are trying to live out their little lives, keep their families together,...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: It does in here.

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: The Senator should speak for himself. I will be taking the tablets.

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I apologise for my lack of a script. I gather Senator Ross objected to the number of people reading from scripts. I would read from one if I had one but I only have my own disconnected thoughts. Although this debate has taken place many times over the years, and I used to take a principled and sometimes leading part in it, we are now so used to it and so accustomed to being rebuffed by the...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I never got any. The Minister did not get any either. That is a national scandal, I feel a tribunal coming on. They are not the slightest use anyway so I am not too deprived but I would have liked to have seen what they looked like. I had to contact the Minister's predecessor to get my millennium candle as well so the north side is deprived, with neither iodine tablets nor candles. We need...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: I join Senator Brian Hayes in asking for a debate on nursing homes' treatment of the elderly and congratulate a former Member, now Deputy O'Dowd, who was crucially involved in this matter. I say that because he is a former Member of this House and a fine politician not from any partisan view because there are many on the other side who are equally concerned and have a professional commitment...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: As this is an issue that affects all of us, either directly or through our relatives, the Seanad should properly consider it. I wish to raise one further item, a bank robbery involving a shooting in Navan, because it is a most interesting situation and one that should give pause for thought. People are horrified by the increase in gun crime. I trace it all back to the so-called republican...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: ——and we squawked loud and hard when this was happening in Northern Ireland. We owe it to the Garda Síochána to make sure an independent inquiry is held. I will end on this point.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: The Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, said in a newspaper article in reference to Deputy Costello: As if to add insult to injury, Costello referred to the Lusk shootings with the extraordinary phrase: "Where people die as a result of Garda action, there must be a proper procedure for an independent investigation into such incidents. Is this how Costello and the Labour Party perceive what...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: Deputy Costello's reaction is most sensible and is in line with what happens in every civilised country. It is no condemnation of the Garda Síochána that there must and should be an independent inquiry.