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- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I will be very brief. This is a disgusting and contemptible amendment that is directed specifically at the weakest and most vulnerable sections of our community. I would be ashamed to have my name attached to such an amendment and I call upon the proposers to withdraw it. The figure of €12 million is a piddling amount of money. It would not fill a pothole in Mayo and the Senator is...
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Will I get an opportunity to contribute?
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Thank you very much.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: We are all pro-life.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: The Senator is not.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is happening.
- Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It does not have the names of the women pictured. It would be nice to know who they were.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is not.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is not reasonable.
- Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: If the Senator had not gone drooling on, we would not have had the late sitting.
- Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is astonishing to think that 100 years ago women did not have the vote. I find it extraordinary that we excluded more than half the population from the vote. I pay tribute to all those brave people who fought for votes for women. I am thinking in particular of the Sheehy Skeffington family, with whom I have been friendly for many years. Many members of the family have contributed,...
- Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It shows what happens if you let a man in.
- Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Ho, ho.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Then the Seanad can forget about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It may not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I know who it was.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I would like to compliment Senator McDowell on completing his work on Seanad reform, but I am very concerned about it. I understand that one of the proposals is that there should be one university constituency with six seats and there will be well over 1 million voters for them. This will be the death of the honourable tradition of the Independent voice from the universities. It opens it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: There is nobody more severe than a reformed tart.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: The Shinners are occupying the Fianna Fáil seats so he is occupying-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: The right change and not change for change itself.