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- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: We might require a short addition to the time allocated.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Why does Senator Power not wait until we get to the amendments?
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I am sorry, but I am seeking direction. What amendments are we discussing?
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I am sorry. That was helpful clarification.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I subscribe to all the amendments, in particular to the one on privacy, except amendment No. 10. The reason is that it is vaguely drafted. For example, paragraph (b) states: For the purpose of this subsection, a person's right to privacy includes, but is not limited to, the person’s right to engage in sexual acts with other adults, as permitted by law, and to form and engage in...
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I do not think a national school would hire Domininque Strauss-Kahn to teach ethics to children. It would not be appropriate. It would be perfectly appropriate to discriminate against Mr. Strauss-Kahn whether or not he was involved in aggravated pimping. As such, I do not agree with the amendment which is too loosely worded.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I have never been to one so I do not know.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Wearing a wedding ring is a matter of no great consequence. Many people who are not married wear wedding rings and sometimes, in particular circumstances, people remove them. It would be inappropriate for a teacher to give a seminar on his or her marriage, whether same-sex or opposite-sex. I do not remember anything like that from any of the schools I went to, ghastly as some of them were....
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: "I am married, yes. Shut up. Geography."
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Maybe they thought you were a fairy.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Does she know?
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: A Chathaoirligh, it is utterly disgraceful that the Fianna Fáil Party has had no representative here at all today.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
David Norris: It adequately justifies the actions of Senator Averil Power.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Foreign Conflicts (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I express my gratitude to Senator Terry Leyden for giving me the opportunity to speak. I know Susiya as I have been there. I also know its people. My friend Ezra Itzhak Nawi has been villified, framed and wrongly charged by Israeli Governments because of his attempts as a Jewish Israeli to support the people of Susiya.Five things need to be done. First, a protective diplomatic presence is...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Foreign Conflicts (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: A motion was passed but we do not officially recognise it yet.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Foreign Conflicts (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Could the Minister of State raise the five points that I raised at the beginning of my contribution with the Minister? Even if it is difficult for us to be represented there we could co-ordinate with the other donors to make sure there is a diplomatic presence. The EUROMED agreement has human rights protocols and it was supposed to be activated when there were human rights violations by...
- Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: He is a consultant.
- Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: Or 850,000 in the universities.
- Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)
David Norris: I would have said 850,000