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- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: How do we debate it if we do not-----
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: They were from the Independents, not the Opposition.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: It has not enacted anything.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: The legislation has not been passed.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: Nothing has happened.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: It has not been implemented.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: They met with my Aunt Fanny.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: No Bill was passed.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: But no Bill was passed.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: First, I wish to dispose of one thing. No Bill concerned with electoral reform of Seanad Éireann has passed this House. There have been discussions and proposals, but absolutely nothing has been done about it. The Taoiseach's proposals for including every institute of technology and all the rest of it would have the effect of leaving the Taoiseach with one vote, to nominate without an...
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: I beg the Senator's pardon. Could he interrupt more cogently? Could he start that again?
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: I thought it was palsy or dropsy he was afflicted with.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: By and large people from political parties are told what to do. I remember in this House when they used to be shepherded into the party offices and their papers marked for them by the general secretary.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: I remember it. I witnessed it. I saw it. That is what happened. This extends the franchise, which is fair enough, but it extends it only in a very marginal way. It is not a real reform, but I will vote for it, if there is a vote, because it is some token gesture towards Seanad reform. However, we need a way to get all the people of Ireland involved. To review the nominating bodies,...
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: I beg the Senator's pardon?
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: What about what?
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: What did he say?
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
David Norris: We won it fair and square. What about it?