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- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Oh.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: No, I do not like to see Ireland turned into a theme park.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: It is a theme park.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: What about the employees?
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: They could get double-----
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Thank you very much. How frightfully liberal of you.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: We need more hen parties in Dublin.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: The Senator opened a pub.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: It was only half open.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: We are very grateful not to be forced into pubs. As a member of the Church of Ireland, it is so generous, big-hearted and gracious of the Roman Catholic majority not to get Protestants together and force them into pubs. We are so grateful.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Absolutely wonderful.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Not if you were being sacrificed for fertility.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: I am not fertile. Am I?
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: I would like to sympathise with the Minister of State, because I understand he had a bereavement which prevented him from attending the Seanad the other day. I offer my condolences. I do not support this Bill I think one of the few good things done by the early Free State Parliament was the introduction of this ban on alcohol on Good Friday. Considering the state of alcohol consumption...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: -----free for all on the holiest day of the year. This is all about money.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: It is about money and political correctness. Look at the removal of cribs from Dublin hospitals because some people - I presume some kind of secularists - thought that Muslims might be offended. It is a load of rubbish. Have a look at the Muslim countries and see what there is. There is a 365-day a year ban on alcohol in those countries and people put up with it. They suck it up. If one...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Now, there are huge television screens blasting out music and ghastly soccer matches all the time.
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Good Friday used to be a day of respect. It is the most solemn day in the Christian calendar. It is the day on which Christ died and we are still, according to our Constitution, a Christian and democratic State. I would like to ask about the prayer. I have objected to this prayer because, to me, it is just a rigamarole. All the people who are trying to get rid of Good Friday still...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: Some 85% of Irish people still acknowledge one Christian denomination. Then there is the old hoary stuff about tourism. For God's sake. First, the Irish pub is an embarrassment. It is a plague of warts all over Europe, with these completely artificial tractors hanging out of the ceiling and all of that kind of stuff. It is disgusting. Has anybody done a survey of the tourists or asked...
- Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)
David Norris: No, but it is a bank holiday. He said it was not a bank holiday and it would be an extra day's work.