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- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: We could have a combination of the three amendments.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: The amendments are virtually identical.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: Almost word for word.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: The Minister could.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I am also getting a little bit worried because we are being told by the Minister of State to live horse and we will get grass - do not push the amendment, let us leave it and I will consider it. I can envisage that, even with the best will in the world, the Minister of State will come back and rabbit through the Bill on Report Stage, where we only have one opportunity to speak. I accept...
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I am sure we will have it and let us just shove it in the list - the more the merrier. The Minister of State is then agonised about the possibility that this list might become predominant. Of course, it will. That is the whole point of it. There would be damn all point if it was not going to be predominant. This is the product of the experience of victims, female and male, of domestic...
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I believe it is on the list.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: No, it was that they had made bad decisions.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: There are some men.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I know there are only about five minutes left in the debate and I propose to occupy as much of it as I possibly can. I hope my colleagues will do exactly the same for a very practical reason, namely, that I would like the Minister of State to have the opportunity, before we conclude this amendment, to withdraw or vote on it. I do not feel like voting on it today because I would like the...
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I thank the Minister of State. What timescale does the Minister of State envisage for the Bill? Is it his hope that it would be passed by the Oireachtas before the summer recess?
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: It is unlikely-----
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: -----of the Acting Chairman and he has authoritatively ruled that the termination time is 7 p.m. I wish to make some observations. My beloved constituency colleague, Senator Bacik, said her amendment is by far the best and that all of the authorities-----
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: -----said the Labour Party amendment was infinitely the best. I do not know about that. My amendment is, word for word, virtually identical, but I got in first.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: The elegant ordering.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: Senator Bacik said other people said it was the best.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: I certainly will not acknowledge it. I believe my amendment is infinitely the best and was the first in, so sucks boo to Senator Bacik. The Minister of State said he sees the arguments for and against the amendment, has an open mind and is working on it. That is great. The Minister of State only gave one example, and I provided him with it.
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)
David Norris: Yes, but I did not ask for one that I had given myself. I asked for one the Minister of State had come up with, and he failed significantly to do so. Nobody spoke about the limited discretion of judges. Rather, we spoke about good judgment, in which I think the Minister of State and other Senators are interested. I am very happy to yield to my Sinn Féin colleague, as long as the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2017)
David Norris: The Irish version takes precedence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Thank you. I thank the Leader.