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- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: One thing about Sinn Féin members is that they work very hard on the ground.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I really appreciate the Leader's decency.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Yes, I have always held that the Leader is a very decent and able politician.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: It is important that he is a good fisherman.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Do I understand that the Leader is happy for me to introduce the Bill?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Everything is in order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I understand it will be tomorrow.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: That is quite true, but we have the emailed list. Nobody is sure if they have been withdrawn by the Government.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I do.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Just pass it and get on with it.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: You are, but-----
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I thought we were dealing with the group of three amendments.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Yes, so we are dealing with all of those. I very much welcome the fact that there are members of the deaf community here today and also that they have a signer. It is significant that in Seanad Éireann a signer was permitted whereas in Dáil Éireann that was not. That is a considerable advantage for the Seanad.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Absolutely. One hundred percent. Otherwise I would not have been here 30 years ago. With regard to the amendments being ruled out of order, first, the Government proposes amendments and it creates a charge on the Exchequer just the same as anybody else. It is quite extraordinary. In any reform of the Seanad one of the cardinal issues to be resolved should be an amendment to remove this...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Thank you very much a Leas-Chathaoirligh. Then let us do it. I would let us do it.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Let the call go out from this meeting of Seanad Éireann that we immediately change the rules. We are not nincompoops. We are quite capable of acting responsibly in creating a charge.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: But it is very germane to the amendments.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: The Minister of State made some very helpful introductory remarks. I regard him as somebody who is very well motivated in the area of disability. He is one of the best qualified people. He has been involved and committed in this area long before he was a Minister and I salute him for it. He recited a number of things that he did not like in the Bill, or that he thought were inappropriate,...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I do not know whether he is masquerading or not. Amendment No. 3 deals with the definition of those bodies that are involved, namely, Departments of State, local authorities, the Health Service Executive, universities and so on and so forth. Again, that is a useful list but it is not exhaustive. This is the problem we always deal with when we have these kind of amendments which tabulate...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Yes, well I think it is a bit daft.