Results 5,621-5,640 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Describe the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Nonsense. Some of us need the envelopes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: We certainly do. It has gone down from-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Since my experiences in the last presidential election, I could hardly be described as an admirer of the journalistic trade. However, I think that what has happened in Independent Newspapers is an utter and absolute disgrace. Yesterday, I attended a protest at the O'Callaghan Alexander Hotel. There are people who have spent decades in service of the Independent Newspaper and are within six...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: There is a defect in the law. I ask the Leader to contact the Government and ask it to produce legislation to deal with this matter. In England, a company that is in profit is not allowed by law to walk away from its obligations to pensioners and this is what should happen in this country. I ask for a debate on transport, particularly in respect of the city of Dublin. The city manager of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: What is wrong with the Seanad? Why are they not coming back here?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: The Leader was wishing them into the Dáil. He is a naughty boy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: What about loyalty to Seanad Éireann?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Senator Leyden is well able to misrepresent himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: We need legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: They are on the footpath knocking pedestrians down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Just mow them down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Can we speak one at a time? I have great difficulty in hearing everything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Let us re-establish the Seanad-----
- Seanad: Convictions for Certain Sexual Offences (Apology and Exoneration) Bill 2016: First Stage (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I am happy to second the proposal.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: I want to apologise to the Minister in advance that I will not be able to stay for the whole of the debate because I have a radio interview later. My matter is a personal interest but it does affect a number of people. Is the number of weeks' payment required, which has gone up quite considerably, retrospective? The reason I ask this is because I was in a scheme in Trinity College Dublin....
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
David Norris: Our pension scheme was taken over by the State.