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Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: May I raise a point of order? Senator Maurice Hayes suggested a form of wording which was quite wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I am very grateful to the Deputy Leader. May I presume that it will probably be passed?

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I thank the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: The Minister of State is joking.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I move motion No. 29: That Seanad Éireann calls on the Minister for Foreign Affairs to use his good offices to ensure that the United States and the United Kingdom Governments meet their absolute moral obligation, as well as their legal obligation, under the Fourth Geneva Convention to provide the finest medical care and rehabilitative treatment for all the civilian casualties of their...

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I am attacking an institution and I am going to continue to do it as much as I like. It is not up to the Senator to reprove me.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: In that case the House has been misinformed.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: Fine. Why was there an objection? In that case the House was misinformed this morning.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I am glad of that correction, because certainly the Official Report will show that was what we were told this morning.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I am very glad for that clarification and I accept it.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I know that. I am talking about the situation there. Senator Mansergh need not be so neurotic—

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: —that he makes a knee-jerk reaction to everything I say. I know something about the situation in East Timor. If Senator Mansergh thinks it is satisfactory, he should go there and take a look at it.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: Then the Senator should go back there.

Seanad: Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I was arrested on the way in because my comments were not so bland as to please the Indonesia administration. With regard to the incidence of disease, while diarrhoea is a simple disease to treat, large number of children are dying from it in Iraq. Some 70% of all child deaths recently in Iraq have been diarrhoea related. Dysentery and typhoid are also becoming a significant problem and this...

Seanad: Autism Services: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I am glad of the opportunity to say a few words on this issue and congratulate Senator Ross for having raised it. Like my colleagues, I have been contacted during the years by a number of people in connection with autism. Some time ago a man from Sligo wrote to all Members of the Oireachtas but received very little by way of response. He sought a meeting with the Minister but did not get one....

Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: Not on the basis of their current performance.

Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Tuffy.

Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)

David Norris: I will be very brief. Thank God this motion has been brought forward. Thank God there is some sense, at last. I recall being practically the only person arguing precisely this case and being hammered for it – except for one good person, Senator O'Rourke. When she had responsibility as Minister for Public Enterprise, she ran with the idea and that was great. I did not realise she was coming...