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Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I very much welcome the Minister and I wish him and his a very happy Christmas. It has been a triumphant year for him in many ways, even though, as a former politician observed, he is in Uganda.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Angola, yes. They are all the bloody same, they are all in a mess. The timing of the legislation is rather curious and the smile on the Minster's face suggests he is not actually screwed in introducing alcohol control legislation in the run-up to Christmas. I am not a pioneer but I support the pioneers. If they were needed in the 19th century, they are very much more needed now. I live...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I wish to ask the Leader about the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill. We were left with a number of Committee Stage amendments pending and Report Stage is to come. I do not see the legislation on the Order Paper for this week so I take it that the remaining Committee Stage amendments and Report Stage amendments will be taken in the new year, if at all. I notice there is quite a lot of...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: -----and that one cannot stir in it. How this young creature — I have never heard of her before — manages to get inside the Dáil bar, to which she has no access, is simply beyond me. In 30 years, I saw a drunk Member only once; it was a Member of the other House and he was dealt with effectively. I am told I have received €56,000 in transport guarantees or...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Expenses of €56,000. Yahweee, but where is it? I would like to know; it would be just wonderful. I could be backwards and forwards like I was a yo-yo on that amount of money. Apparently, this story is granted credibility. It is said we have these huge salaries, enormous grants and allowances but I just wonder why it is that the 3,000 civil servants who are receiving so much more...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I want to know where it is. Every kind of looney in the country rises to the service and tries to take a gobble at me. I have received all kinds of correspondence. Senators will excuse the vulgarity of the remarks made. My secretary got a telephone call yesterday and she had to put down the phone. The fellow on the line asked whether he could speak to me and she said I was not available...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: You can say that again. By God, it is not parliamentary language and certainly should not be stated to my secretary and parliamentary assistant. I will just read another statement. There is very little that is offensive-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: It is a wonderful catalogue of what I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Absolutely, yes. The correspondence is from a Mr. John Tierney. Hello, John. This is what he said and wants me to read out, "You gay shit, read this about you cunning little toady, creep, crawler, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, truckler, groveller, doormat, lickspittle, kowtower, obsequious person, minion, hanger-on, leech, puppet, spaniel."

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: That is me and here I am.He should send more - I absolutely love them - but would he please-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: -----leave my poor secretary out of it? She does not like it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I laugh at it; she does not.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is a bit odd - I have commented on this before - that we have 113 amendments at this very late Stage, Report Stage, and all but two of them are Government amendments. That is astonishing. I hope the Minister of State will convey this to her colleagues and to those involved in the Civil Service in the drafting. It is both a drafting and a...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Can I seek a little further information on foot of what Senator Conway has said? If it "will be six months before it is enacted", will it fall with this Government? We need to have an election in the next six months.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: I see. The Senator said "enacted".

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: To whom did the Government give an undertaking it would not create any more stand-alone services?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Is the Minister talking about quangos?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: That was an undertaking given to the media.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Was it an election pledge?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

David Norris: Was it in the programme for Government? It was stated that no further independent bodies would be created.