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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: What is this on?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Quel accent?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: So what?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: If Senators Healy Eames and Quinn rephrased amendment No. 68 slightly, so as to refer to taking into account the wishes of the mother, I would be happy to support it. However, I imagine the authorities already do take the wishes of the mother into account. It would be very foolish to completely ignore them.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Yes. I would have no problem accepting this if rephrased by Senator Healy Eames to take into account the views of the mother. Of course they should be taken into account. That is perfectly obvious, so I have no problem with that. On the question of mothers, fathers and parents, after the passage of this Bill a gay couple or cohabiting couple will be the parents of the child legally. That...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am just referring to what was said.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I will leave it at that. I have a question on amendment No. 72, in the names of Senators Mullen and Quinn. It is unnecessarily restrictive and, therefore, I oppose it. It states: "other than an applicant or applicants referred to in section 33(1)(a)(i) or section 33(1)(a)(ii)" I assume this refers to section 33 of this Bill, because it does not state otherwise. However, that section...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Will the Senator give the precise reference?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I cannot find them. The Senator should give them.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: On a point of order, I ask the Acting Chairman to request Senator Jim Walsh to withdraw the allegation that the ICCL, on the board of which I served, was set up to promote abortion. No one in this country promotes abortion. We accept the reality in respect of there being specific circumstances.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I asked the Senator for the titles of the surveys.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am not. I was on the board for a number of years, but I have no connection with it whatsoever now, except that I am a supporter of it.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
David Norris: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I want to return to something I said yesterday about the way business is ordered in this House. It is instructive that there is a sprinkling of people - maybe half a dozen - from the two Government parties, two Opposition Senators and two Independents here. There are considerably more people in the Gallery. I have always said that it does not really matter when legislation is being...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I shall do that. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for the suggestion. The other point I would make is that on the Order of Business yesterday a colleague on the other side - I am not sure if it was Senator Bacik or not - expressed sympathy to the victims of the German air crash. It was seen as an accident. It now transpires it was not an accident, that the co-pilot locked the door of the...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I want to point out that opposition to this section constitutes opposition to the entire Bill.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: The Senator is confusing the issues all the time.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Will Senator Mullen give us quotes for this? Who said this to her?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: If he would, it would be very helpful.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear. I agree.