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- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)
David Norris: That appears to be grotesquely unfair on the third party. It could lead to all kinds of wild accusations.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)
David Norris: No, they are sworn. They are under oath.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Evidence from a tribunal cannot be used to accuse third parties either.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I also support the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)
David Norris: An enormous amount of thought and preparation has gone into the Bill and these amendments. I particularly support this amendment. There appears to be an appropriate balance between competing rights - the right of an individual human being to determine and assert his or her identity on the one hand, and on the other the right of the parent to privacy. I believe that balance has been...
- Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)
David Norris: The Oireachtas has been doing a lot of spring cleaning in the area of family law. This is a very good thing. The role of this House, in particular, is significant and important in this regard because this is a reflective Chamber. I spoke only once on this occasion. I said what I had to say and I sat and listened. I was greatly informed by what was said. I decided not to speak further...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: On my way in to the Chamber I was confronted by a protestor, which is perfectly legitimate, who held a placard stating, "Children have rights". It was about the marriage equality referendum. I would agree that children have rights. They have the right not to be treated as shuttlecocks in a political dispute, and this is what is happening. They talk about children having a right to a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: He was quite right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I ask the Senator to explain the matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: The urge the Senator not to make a statement without explaining it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: What was it on? Explain it.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I welcome the fact that the Government has tabled a series of amendments. It has met some of the arguments we put on Second Stage and Committee Stage and this is a good thing. It is not a perfect Bill; it is a work in progress and I certainly understand that. We did a good deal of work on it the previous day. I believe we have come as far as the Government is prepared to go. Perhaps I am...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I investigated this and discovered that what had happened was that some little S.H.1.T from the fines office said, "That little shit Norris, that little queer is not going to get away with this", and telephoned the Evening Heraldand told it the whole story
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: It was all over the papers. That is the kind of thing that can happen with irresponsible journalism.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: What section of the Bill provides protections? Are there sanctions?
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: It is very humiliating for trans people to be forced into a lavatory of a sex to which they do not feel assigned. Interestingly, Professor Monstrey of Ghent University, who was honoured by the College of Surgeons as an international world figure, asked my consultant what he thought was the most important element in gender reassignment. To my amazement, he said it was being able to pee...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: He does not need to be. He was just the person who gave his name to the show and he wisely kept out of the debate. Somebody telephoned into the show from Clonmel saying, "I have great sympathy with you lot of homosexuals and I have noticed in the town on the fair day there is a lavatory for men and there is a lavatory for women and I'm on the council and I'm going to suggest there is...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I am not sure that I heard the Minister of State discussing this previously but it seems to me a worthy amendment. My own experience with the gutter press would lead me to conclude that quite a number of red-top newspapers would glory in getting hold of this kind of stuff and splattering it right across the front page, with a lot of sanctimonious praise for the transgendered person - "Tranny...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: That would be very good. However, a law is not much use if there is no penalty attached to it. I would be interested to hear what the Minister of State has to say but I am all in favour of it. It is private information. If people want to make it public, let them make it public. However, I do think people in the media who leak this kind of thing should be got at. Something has just...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I wish to make one small point on the question of gender being indeterminate or intersex. This is not something that has been adverted to very much in public discourse. There was a report - I think yesterday - in the English newspapers on a young man, a perfectly ordinary working man. When he presented for a routine medical procedure, the doctor called him aside and said: "By the way, you...