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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: The Minister has indicated there was no Government opposition, so presumably Senator Higgins can retable it on Report Stage and it will be agreed. That would be wonderful.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: If she does not do so, I will because it is terribly important that the Government should not be seen as an enemy of the Irish language, for example, and one of the principal matters of interest here is the Irish language. These are my concerns about this matter, particularly section 25(4), which states "The Minister may". It is terribly weak.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Diversity is good.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: What, then, is the point of subsection (4)?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: It seems to give him or her the power to monkey with the report.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: What?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Yes, it does.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Senator McDowell is giving me great temptation to do so now.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Travellers' rights is one.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: We do not want to know.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: The Senator should not worry about me. I do not have any sexual orientation at all as I am far too old.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)
David Norris: It is only 7.59 p.m.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Must have built a grand couple of houses.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Bravo.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: The most astonishing thing about yesterday's budget is that there was no change to the carbon tax regime, despite that Ireland is among the world's worst polluters per capita. It looks to me like the Government, like Nero, is fiddling while not just Rome but the planet is burning. There is a sense of the imminent possibility of catastrophe.Small oceanic island communities are threatened...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Committees are great but actions are better.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Mary Robinson said it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.