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- Seanad: Grangegorman Development Agency Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2005)
David Norris: I support Senator Henry's comments. This is a point pioneered by our colleague, Senator O'Toole, who finds it offensive that as Members of the Oireachtas we should be excluded from such agencies. My one point of dissent from Senator Henry's comment is her use of the phrase "pleasurable bodies". I would take no pleasure in such a body. The bodies in which I would take pleasure would be...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: I would like to refer to No. 1, a motion on the Treaty of Amsterdam and the exchange of information. The Acting Leader said he wants to take the matter without debate. It was tabled, but each day a list of items are tabled on the back of the Order Paper. Most of these items go through on the nod. I would like to enter a caveat here and I would like the Acting Leader to refer the matter to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: In the past couple of weeks the directors of Eircom, including Tony O'Reilly, took enormous sums of money for running the worst telecom service in Europe. There is no investment in it. I am waiting for six months to get my telephone fixed. I am just one of many people in this situation. There is growing dissatisfaction with the service and it is appalling that fat cats can bleed a company,...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: We should have a debate not just on this issue but on the whole ideology of privatisation.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: We have lame ducks.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Good.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Will there be an inquest?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: I support Senator Brian Hayes and those others who expressed their concern at the situation regarding the five Mayo farmers who have been jailed. There should be no criticism of the judge, who has simply implemented the law as he is required to do. However, the history of Shell certainly gives us a great deal about which to be concerned. I was one of several people in this House who raised...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: That is absolutely right.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: The schedule should be changed to allow more time for the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)
David Norris: Everyone did not agree. I certainly did not.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)
David Norris: I do not agree with Senator Brian Hayes's comments on the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The case in Clonmel is tragic and, as Senator Mansergh suggested, an automatic inquiry should be held into such circumstances. I am not sure it would have been appropriate for the Minister to cite specific cases. We are often told it is not appropriate to name people in this House as it...