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- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Before Senator Mooney begins, what time is the debate concluding?
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I apologise to Senator Mooney for interrupting.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It did not feel like that on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: We both interrupted each other.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I was supporting Senator Bacik.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: That would be the Senator’s five minutes gone.
- Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)
David Norris: That is very disappointing. They are a small group of people who, because of a technicality, have been disbarred.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
David Norris: The inconsistency is well spotted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Uncharacteristically, I have nothing to add today except to join with colleagues in extending my sincere sympathy to the family of the garda who was appallingly shot and on the dreadful tragedy of the Traveller family. I would be less quick to judge the residents. The council acted outside its own planning system and did so within an hour and without consultation. It is an awkward...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I was alerted to watch last night's edition of "Prime Time", which dealt with six cases in respect of which there have been allegations of Garda Síochána laziness or cover-up. One of the cases dealt with in the programme is one I have raised on a number of occasions in the House. Shane O'Farrell, who was a brilliant student in Trinity College and who had just completed a further...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: With regard to the forthcoming Seanad by-election, the selection of the candidate, Maíria Cahill, is an internal matter for the Labour Party. It can do whatever it likes. She is a fine person but the election is a complete farce with only 100 voters. It is not even an election because Fine Gael has withdrawn from it. It is an own goal for the Labour Party. It is a nomination, not an...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: It was an own goal. Senator Moloney is damn right. It was a goal against Fine Gael’s goalkeeper.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: The Senator should go and join the National Museum board.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: I am horrified, as I am sure everybody else here is, by reports today that an 11-year old boy has been arrested in America for the murder of an eight-year old girl with his father's shotgun. One looks at what President Obama is trying to do, but the appalling National Rifle Association is stymying all of his efforts. With regard to the date for the general election, I always believed when...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: A couple of hundred voters all know what to do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Senator Cummins knows very well we will elect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear, well said.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Not very wide.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)
David Norris: Not with New Zealand.