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- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I agree with the Senator that these powers usually reside with a garda, a Revenue official or a customs officer. I also agree that it would be well worth our while examining the matter to ensure that the appropriate person is used. These are very wide powers. They include the power to enter the personal property and home of an individual. Let us remember that some people live on...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I refer to presenting the warrant.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I am not talking about that. Rather, I am talking about the question of presenting the warrant. If a person has gone to court and obtained a warrant, what is the reason for not presenting it to the alleged offending individual?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I am saying it should be produced anyway, regardless of whether-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I am saying it should be provided anyway.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I want to ask the Minister if she would consider that.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: If the officer is required to produce the warrant on request, he or she must have the warrant in his or her possession. Why on earth would he or she not present it? There does not seem to be any good reason for an officer to think that because someone did not ask for it, it is a case of, "Sucks, boo to you". If an officer has a warrant in his or her pocket, why would he or she not present...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: This is the crux of the matter. It is absurd for a Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to come in here and blather on about hedges. What have hedges got to do with heritage? It is a complete and absolute nonsense. The absence of scientific evidence on the part of the Minister has been underlined throughout the debate. No survey has been done and this is...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: When the damage is already done.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: How can the Department get further data when it does not have any?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: It is not further data.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Even where there is a serious road safety danger.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: That explodes the Minister's nonsense about road safety.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Does the Minister have statistics on that?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: There has been an 80% decline.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: We never said that. That accusation has never been made.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: No such remark has ever passed the lips of-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: The Minister needs to withdraw that comment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: The Minister is out of order, making unjust accusations about a debate that has taken place in this House.