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- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Where are they thrown around?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: That is a load of twitter.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: So one person interrupting 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: Beanbags.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Senator Ross; who is the Senator calling Ross? I am out of this House. Gone.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I am back. It is all right.
- 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: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: The debate has certainly moved on. In the last Parliament, I was the only Member of the Seanad to oppose section 8. I could not get another Member to stand for me to get a vote or to act as a teller. It is really terrific that we have had such a diverse expression of opinion. We have to take into account what the facts are. The Minister has pretty much accepted that a large number of...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I love Carlow.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I would not inflict him on the Cathaoirleach for anything.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: If nobody is prepared to speak, may I just contribute a line from Finnegan's Wake? "Ere the hour the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea." That characterises the debate we have had here this afternoon. The twattering of the bards.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Who said "raping"?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Why are they seeding-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Now I have heard everything. I have never heard such tripe in my life - farmers going bankrupt because they cannot sow seeds underneath hedges. Come on. What kind of eejits does the Senator think there are in Seanad Éireann? Sowing seeds underneath the hedges - I never heard anything like it. It is absolute rubbish. I hope Fianna Fáil will press the amendment. It refers to...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: What?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: There was a kind of a bantering mumble. I could not distinguish a single syllable.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: It also addresses quite directly what the Minister has gone on bleeding about but never actually put in the legislation, as Senator McDowell very rightly said.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Does the Senator object to the word "bleeding"?