Results 5,361-5,380 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
David Norris: It is a very good point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Not a bad idea though.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I have been breathalysed 1 million times.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: And they swindled the employees out of their pensions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear, well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Colleagues will remember that I raised previously the unilateral and unjustified closing down of the bank accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign by the Bank of Ireland at the behest of the Israeli Government. Last night, I spoke at a TED Talks event in Trinity College before which there was a sponsored reception in the on-campus premises of the Bank of Ireland. When a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: She did what?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: That is exactly what I am doing. I would never have thought of sitting down without your advice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: It was because I said something; it had nothing to do with the students.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: What about the independent Independents?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I will leave it in the Leader's wise hands.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: And we complain about Enda Kenny's money.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: A committee seems to have been established to regularise dress codes in the Oireachtas. This is ridiculous. I generally wear a suit out of respect for the dignity of the place. I am not wearing one today because I have a broken arm. However, if one looks at the other House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: Yes. I am just commenting generally on the increasing bureaucracy that is around this place. Whatever one thinks of Mick Wallace and Richard Boyd Barrett, they are among the most brilliant contributors to the Lower House. There is a natural self-regulation. People are not going to come in wearing a bikini. If they did, they would be censured by the House and they would be expelled. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: There are the ridiculous restrictions on allowances which were given to us to make up for the fact that we did not take pay rises. People in the Civil Service who are our direct counterparts acknowledged this and got them streamed into their main pay but we did not. There was also the abolition of the long service increment. I do not know of another job in Ireland that does not get a long...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: It is time we demanded respect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
David Norris: I beg your pardon, a Chathaoirleach.