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- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I thought we were not supposed to mention people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Parallel parking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I formally second the proposal by Senator Warfield to take the Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017. Yesterday, we discussed the Heritage Bill and it received detailed and comprehensive analysis. We spent nine hours debating it, which was a revelation. As I said yesterday, I could not get a single person to stand with me to object to certain clauses of the Bill in the last Parliament....
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I beg the Senator's pardon. Will the matter feature in the Irish Farmers' Journal?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I thank the Senator for the information. I am very glad that the matter will feature in the Irish Farmers' Journal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I read the newspaper occasionally in the Oireachtas Library. I am very glad to say that I have been mentioned in it more than once.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Does the Senator read the lonely hearts section in the Irish Farmers' Journal?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I feel absolutely quenched by that shocking revelation by Senator Ó Ríordáin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: The Senator writes to the agony column in the Irish Farmers' Journal. How appalling? The newspaper must be really badly stuck. I wonder if that comment will turn up in news rather than anything else we have said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: There is a moment for good humour, levity, etc., but it should not undermine the fact that this House does a lot of very hard and detailed work-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: -----that does impact on the Irish people. The least that we can expect is that this material is occasionally covered.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Not half as well as Dublin.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I second the proposal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I will be brief. Members may recall that I raised certain questions last week about wages and conditions in this House. As a trade unionist, it is perfectly legitimate to do so. I will add one final thing to show how utterly ludicrous the notion of making us fob in is - a majority of Fine Gael Members in Dáil Éireann do not fob in. They are Ministers so they do not have to do...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I will accept any emendations the Cathaoirleach, in his civilised way, wishes to make.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: No, but it is fun.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Twenty three states are opposing him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: He had great support in this house from Professor John Crown.