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- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: They all have votes in Seanad elections.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: On a point of order, I understand there is usually provision at the end of the Bill, when it is passed-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: We are asking for guidance.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Or we could talk about the whole Bill. That was my experience of 30 years in this House.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I wish to point out that I tried to raise this question and other allied questions about pensions in the debate on the Finance Bill and was told that it was a matter for the Department of Social Protection. I was told that the Minister for Social Protection would be in the House and could deal with it so that is rather extraordinary. The Minister discussed this issue on "Prime Time",...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Hear hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Neither do I.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Unfortunately, it would not have made it into Independent News and Media newspapers.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I am not going anywhere.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)
David Norris: The Minister's Department had something to do with it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I do not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I second Senator Bacik’s amendment to the Order of Business. This is a matter that we have all been pursuing. I instanced it first at the passage of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2010 because this was an anomaly then affecting the Civil Service. Subsequently David Parris took an action which I am sorry he lost. A couple of days ago I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
David Norris: That was a short Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
David Norris: It was just that he is an old friend. Even though he is very ill and he is 93, he contacted me because he wanted to write a note of congratulations. That is what alerted me first to the fact that it was T.K. Whitaker's 100th birthday.
- Seanad: Pensions (Equal Pension Treatment in Occupational Benefit Scheme) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I second the proposal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)
David Norris: He has only a distant connection with the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)
David Norris: As they did the greyhound.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I sent a letter in this very morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Is there a terminal time?