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Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: In other words, anything more than a cottage was ruled out, not by the Minister, but by this anonymous civil servant.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for that undertaking.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 4: In page 202, to delete lines 12 and 13.While it may appear so, this is not a frivolous amendment. It concerns the removal of the first instance of the proclamation Magna Carta of 12 June 1215, just over 800 years ago. Is the Government marking the 800th anniversary of the introduction of the Magna Carta into Irish law by removing it? That is a shame and a pity. I...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I compliment the Minister of State and his advisers on the assiduity they have shown in pursuing the minutiae of law. In response to Senator Byrne, I believe it is well worthwhile to go through the law book and weed it out. That is excellent. Also, I make no apologies for submitting amendments, as that is what the Seanad is for, although some of the amendments just gave me an opportunity...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: It is relevant. I persuaded the Minister for Finance to introduce a clause specifically designed to save Georgian buildings. I have finished with this and will not personally benefit from it at all.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I just want to answer something mentioned by the Minister of State. I spent millions over 40 years. Anyone on a middle income could have done the same, if he or she took no holidays and had no other expenditure apart from this prime concern. I chose to do that, although I am not and never have been a wealthy person. I was practically made bankrupt by the presidential election and am not a...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I wish to make a comment. I completely agree that the Statute Book should be open to the public, but it must be very large, if it is a book. Is it in several volumes and is it available? There used to be a Stationery Office. Can the Statute Book be consulted and how is it consulted? Is it available in the Oireachtas Library or does one have to go online? When the Minister of State...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: If possible, will the Minister of State consult the National Library of Ireland to see how many times the Statute Book has been consulted? It would be rather interesting to discover what interest the people of Ireland take in their Statute Book and whether they consult it regularly. I must confess that I am 30 years a legislator and have never looked at it once in my entire life. I am not...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: Has the Senator looked at it?

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

David Norris: There were proclamations on both sides. There was one for army Catholics.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: We are in flitters.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I support calls for a debate on Amnesty International's report on abortion. I am a religious person and passionately pro-life, but that label does not belong to any single section of the community. If Senator Paschal Mooney seeks to speak for the unborn, that is fair enough because they cannot select somebody to speak for them-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: -----but I am very happy to speak on behalf of those who manage to be born and have real problems, including fatal foetal abnormalities. We are always told by spokespersons that we must be frightfully sensitive and that we cannot tell the truth. I believe in telling the truth. It is outrageous that somebody who is carrying a foetus that has no head, that is only a mass of tissue with no...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b), I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: To pull it down.

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I feel I am being advanced to an unusual degree because this is, after all, not just Yeats's evening but Senator O'Keeffe's evening. I thank the Government for providing this opportunity for us to speak of one of the great Members of this House as well as a poet. W.B. Yeats was someone who took up the cause of divorce when it was extremely unpopular, who spoke of...

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: I am just finished. They should be saluted and remembered. They were wonderful people, and Constance and Eva Gore-Booth were in a remarkable tradition, which was memorialised by probably the greatest poet this country has ever seen and somebody we are honoured to have had as a representative in Seanad Éireann.

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

David Norris: Sandymount.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2015)

David Norris: I second the amendment proposed by Senator Darragh O'Brien. I would like to ask for a debate on ethics in sport in view of the situation regarding Sepp Blatter. The whole international sports world is a byword for corruption. The International Olympic Committee is a mess. FIFA is a complete and absolute disgrace, with hundreds of millions of dollars washing around being used as bribes....

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2015)

David Norris: It is not a bit. I defy the Cathaoirleach to find the word nincompoop in the list of regulated words.