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- Seanad: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: The Senator has not been backwards himself.
- Seanad: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I share the previous speaker's concern about CETA. This was debated in the House and the whole arrangement was discarded by Seanad Éireann, which voted against it. This was largely because of the court structures involved and the fact that commercial entities could sue. The public good, the public interest and the welfare of the people was regarded as less significant than the profit...
- Seanad: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I am just finishing. The research continued:In Bradford County, Pennsylvania, a well blowout resulted in a spill of approximately 10,000 gal (38,000 L) of produced water into a tributary of Towanda Creek [...] The largest volume spill identified in this assessment occurred in North Dakota, where approximately 2.9 million gal (11 million L) of produced water spilled from a broken pipeline and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to say a few words here this afternoon. This is an extremely important matter. I am rather ashamed that these benches are not absolutely full. This committee should have every single member here, if they are decent Irish people. Half the people here are not members of the committee. They should be here, and I hope they read the minutes of this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear. Houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: There are two of them, despite the efforts of the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: I believe there is an unparalleled avalanche of homelessness facing us. We are incapable of dealing with the few thousand there are already. What will we do when it is a couple of hundred thousand? I completely disagreed with the previous Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, a man for whom I have a certain amount of respect, when he said that vultures were a good thing as they picked...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: But in a crisis like this is it not worthwhile for the Government to try it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Okay, let us stop it there then. I take it is just home owners that we are not going to look to rescue people who have made investments all over the place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: And tenants, right. I thank Mr. Honohan. In terms of statistics, I noted when I read Mr. Honohan's very interesting paper that he stated there was a complete dearth of sociological and other information about the background, the length of the mortgages and all that kind of stuff. Could Right2Homes do that if it is simply a matter of twiddling on a computer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Can it be done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Thank goodness for Mr. Honohan and the country registrars who are mounting a rearguard action. This is my final question as I know we are under a lot of pressure for time but I really do feel very passionately about this. I hope every single Member of both Houses gets up and shouts as loudly as he or she possibly can about this situation. My final question is a general one to Fr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: May I make one final remark? A little more than three or four years ago I knew of a woman not too far from me in Drumcondra who had lived in the same house for 60 years. I went and stood with her as they tried to put her out on the side of the road. It is a disgrace to Ireland and it calls into question all of these bogus celebrations of 1916. We should not bothering about that. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Perhaps in light of the fact that Mr. Joyce has not said anything we could continue this meeting on another day. Is that possible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes (20 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Maybe we ought to cheer them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
David Norris: The other House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
David Norris: Why will Sinn Féin not speak in Westminster?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
David Norris: They did it before.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
David Norris: A Parliament Sinn Féin used to refuse to recognise.