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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Senators Mullen and Walsh, theoretically if not by their vote, also oppose marriage equality, they opposed civil partnership, they oppose just about bloody everything that marks a social advance, so it is not a great surprise to me that they are opposing this as well. The grounds on which they do so are quite remarkable. Some 36% of the births in this country are now outside marriage. What...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Well, it does not matter. It is the point I am making and Senator Healy Eames is another one who opposed all these things.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: She did so reluctantly.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Can I just say-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Oh God. Will the Senator give over?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I will not.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Senator Healy Eames's interrupting is pretty ignorant too, but I do not mind it. It suits me very well. Single people can adopt at the moment. That is the law in this country. Single gay people can adopt at the moment. With regard to respect, I wonder how respectful it is to say, as one of the contributors said on the radio a couple of years ago when discussing civil marriage, that gay...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: This would mean that assisted human reproduction would be denied to anyone who is not legally married within the State. They would not be allowed to have it. The Senators are imposing their social views on the majority of the population. I come back to the fact that 36% of births occur outside marriage. People are voting with their reproductive organs and they are ignoring what is being...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: It is part of this argument and in my opinion it helped formulate these amendments.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: The Iona Institute is something that is funded from America. It gives the two fingers to the Standards in Public Office Commission, and it has got itself registered as a charity but there is nothing whatsoever charitable about its work.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I have.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am asking the Minister directly here to find out a little bit, if she could, and come back and report here-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: -----on the current status of the Iona Institute. I am the Norris Institute. I hereby declare myself the Norris Institute.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am open to funding from Domino's Pizza.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: Yes, but it was a useful little excursion because it highlighted some of the things that are going on in this country. Reference was made by Senator Mullen to pressure groups. He never refers to the pressure groups that helped to produce the climate of opinion that creates these amendments. What about that? What about the pressure groups that helped to create them.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I will not take very much longer. "A person shall not perform a DAHR procedure on the request of the intending parents unless" he has obtained all this information, the intending mother has consented, and so on. My God. Under what situations would a mother not consent? Does the Senator seriously imagine that there are squads of people going around Dublin with shillelaghs to whack women on...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am glad the Senator is laughing because it is laughable. The husband must also consent to be the parent. Then, just to make things even more confused, we have another amendment. In amendment-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: I am just coming to that, before I was so unhelpfully interrupted. It is amendment No. 27. This amendment is supposed to be an alternative.However, everything is confined in amendment No. 26 to legally married people. When one turns to amendment No. 27, they have suddenly had an access of liberalism because they are expanding it and now - goody, goody - it states, "A person shall not...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: What about America?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
David Norris: He did.