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- Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)
David Norris: Senator Cullinane campaigned for the abolition of the Seanad.
- Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)
David Norris: There are 150,000 voters in them.
- Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)
David Norris: That is 150 times the number of votes cast for Senator Cullinane's group.
- Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)
David Norris: It does not and never did.
- Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)
David Norris: Including among those in the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
David Norris: It would be a lot better if they restored the houses.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
David Norris: It is one of the Underwood houses, I think.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: I would like to raise the issue of Fitzgibbon Street police station. I have raised this on a number of occasions and was told it was being closed for refurbishment and would be reopened. This is not true. It is closed for refurbishment in order to become a hostel for the homeless. The police station will be closed. The gardaí in the area are quite upset about this. In Dublin 1,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: Is the Senator suggesting we criminalise suicide?
- Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: Following on from Senator Wilson's contribution, I can understand the argument for excluding somebody on the grounds of bankruptcy because it would cast some doubt on their business expertise, creditworthiness and so on but I am not sure about the exclusion of somebody who comes to an accommodation with his or her creditors. That seems a fairly logical thing to do and it does not necessarily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: I do not see how one can have reconciliation if one does not face the truth. In 1915, a total of 1.5 million Armenians were specifically targeted and eliminated. People are now prosecuted within Turkey for arguing that it is a genocide. A German officer was in Turkey during the period of the genocide. Subsequently, in the 1930s he wrote to Hitler to say that if Hitler was not careful,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: May I comment? One of the virtues of this committee traditionally has been its non-partisan nature. It would be a great pity if this morning’s little kerfuffle were allowed to derail that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: Is that Mr. Thomas Drumm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: Very good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)
David Norris: I am very pleased to hear Mr. Drumm has been located. I heard his cousin on a wireless yesterday and, to be quite honest with the committee, I thought he was gone. I welcome the fact the Government is providing €1 million but I hope the figure will be kept under review. In terms of the scale of the tragedy, it is pretty small beer. I, therefore, hope it will be kept continually...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
David Norris: Will the Leader write to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, to draw his attention to, and ask him to correct, a cruel and unnecessary anomaly in the allocation of pensions? In the 1980s, workers, particularly in the Civil Service, were circulated with a memorandum asking them whether they wished to leave their pension entitlements to a wife or husband. At that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)
David Norris: It is always refreshing to hear someone like Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú pay a compliment to a Minister from another party. It is healthy to recognise the achievements of one party or another. I support my colleagues who have spoken in support of the Dunnes Stores workers. I remember the time when they went on strike over the system of apartheid and they were extremely...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
David Norris: There was not much in the document about the alliance with the Kaiser.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Last night we passed the Child and Family Relationships Bill which should put an end to the idea canvassed by the "No" side that the referendum deals with children. That business has been taken care of and is done and dusted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
David Norris: There can be plenty of questions.