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- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: If he says that kind of thing again he will be interrupted.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: You are the one who is closing down debate by trying to prevent people mentioning a very relevant case.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: He is being very provocative and I will rise to the challenge.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: They are the only provisions allowed. They are all sanctioned by the State.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I thank Senator Conway.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: There is not much of that in the Judeo-Christian ethic.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: An atheist there.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I will pray for Senator Mullen.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I have repeatedly mentioned and commented on the importance of the Roman Catholic Church historically.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Has anyone noticed there is no sign of any Fianna Fáil Senator here?
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: The Republican party, hah! Senator Power is not in Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: That cedes extraordinary powers to sects and cults. Has anybody thought of that? Some kind of lunatic sect could hire somebody and then fire that person out on his or her ear because he or she does not agree God delivered cargo to the humble aboriginals at Shannon Airport in 1927.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: They can hire in teachers.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: That is wrong.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: They could hire Senator Mullen. He would do the job for nothing.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: What about the children? This is not about teachers only.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I support amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 13, which goes to the point I was making earlier that there are certain limited numbers of positions where a commitment to religion is significant. With regard to teachers who are atheists but happy to teach religion and prepare children for their Holy Communion, I am not surprised by this. It explains the phenomenon of these children making their...
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I support the amendments on the practical basis that one cannot violate something that does not exist. If it is not specified, how can one possibly know that one is violating an ethos? It seems perfectly appropriate to require the churches to specify. That is all I am going to say. I would like to think we will have the Bill finished today.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I am the only person on this side.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Define it, if we can find it.