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- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: And pensions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: With regard to No. 1, I completely disagree with the Leader that it should be taken without debate. This is a debating Chamber. The people in Aer Lingus have been swindled out of their pensions. It is devastating that people have their pensions cut in half at a time of economic difficulty. If one compares this with what happened in Waterford Glass where the Government found the money to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It is an absolute disgrace and a reproach to this House that we should take it without debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I wish to raise the issue of the eighth amendment. My church was completely against the eighth amendment. I was against the eighth amendment. It is a disgrace that third parties outside a relationship should dictate to people such as Graham Linehan and his wife who have a non-functioning pregnancy where there is literally no real child, that they should continue for nine months being...
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I did not hear a word.
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Call for silence then. I did not hear a word.
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I object to the fact we are not able to be heard in this House. I certainly want to object.
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I did not hear a word.
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It is the responsibility of the Leas-Chathaoirleach to maintain order and keep silence in this House.
- Seanad: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It is the responsibility of the Leas-Chathaoirleach to keep silence and I want a process to get this registered. It is an absolute disgrace. It is as though the Ministers are afraid to face this House after cheating the Aer Lingus workers out of their pensions.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: How much time do we have?
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I thank the Acting Chairman.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: On this occasion I am.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It was in 1979. No reform of Seanad Éireann.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister to a House with which she is very familiar, being a former Leader of the Opposition, and thank her for her gracious acknowledgement of the role I played. I have found the references to myself a little embarrassing, but I accept the accolade quite seriously on behalf of the very many people who during the years, in an unacknowledged way, have played a crucial and...
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I will conclude on the following point. I make no apology whatever for having opposed in speeches in this House the Government's Civil Partnership Bill because it was insufficient. There are 169 differences between it and the Marriage Bill, the most outrageous being the former's exclusion of children. To my mind, that was child abuse. I smiled when I read Una Mullally's book, in which I...
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It is a very nice scarf.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Excellent. I hope they do.