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- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: We should never have left the empire. We would have had better weather if we had stayed with Britain.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: And lack of finance.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Humphreys.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: It is trumpery rubbish.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: She did not.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Senator O'Reilly does not represent a geographical constituency.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Will the Senator sing it?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: That is the new introduction by the Minister.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: You would be afraid you would be attacked by a hedgerow.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Do they check it for nests? I very much doubt that they do.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: It is included in the regulations but not the Bill.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: But not in the Bill.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: This is a peculiar Bill. When I saw it on the programme for legislation originally, I thought it might have something to do with the protection of historic buildings. It seems to me that the majority of this Bill's provisions should fall under the remit of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Minister herself has just...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: I have a wonderful Jaguar. It is unscarred by hedgerows. I have not once been attacked by a wild hedgerow. Most responsible motorists will slow down when they see the intrusion of vegetation onto the road. There is one important point quoted by the Minister from the National Parks and Wildlife Service with which I would agree. There is a problem with road signage and hedgerows. A road...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: I do not agree. All right; I will clarify. I did have the wonderful the distinction of getting 11 honours but failing in arithmetic in the leaving certificate, however.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: That should be an encouragement to the wonderful students in the Gallery. They should not neglect mathematics but neither should they break their hearts if they do happen to fail it. It seems perfectly logical that if one has a rectangle, one side cannot be more than half the sum of the other three sides. I will leave it at that. The final point I want to address is this business of the...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Yes, County Clare. A majority of councils have actually said this. I am not attacking farmers. God knows, my grandfather was a farmer. It is spurious to suggest that there is some kind of hostility between people who happen to live in Dublin and people who are decent farmers. Of course, they are the curators and protectors of the land and we respect them but that is no reason to give in...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: He would not get away with it in Ringsend.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: It would be the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)
David Norris: Farmers will look at the hedges to see if there are any nests.