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- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Somebody in the Visitors Gallery thinks the Minister of State is saying, "I won't because I won't." I am not sure that is 100% fair to him, but it is a legitimately held point of view. I raise an accidental issue which hinges on this matter tangentially, that is, a recent development which I very much welcome - I deplore the lack of legislation in this regard - in respect of the use of...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I know but I have not aired this point and I am going to air it.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: My point is that Senator Mullen says he believes in equality. On every single issue reflecting gay people, he has spoken, voted against and put down motions-----
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: He is always talking about respect. How respectful was it for him to say on RTE radio a couple of years ago that gay men wanted children as a fashion accessory? That is the kind of respect I can live without and I will challenge it at every point.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I do not.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: What Bill did the Minister of State refer to?
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Absolutely, but only when they respect me.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Yes I have. We rest with the position that the legislation itself is unconstitutional because it represents an attack on existing families. To return to the question of legal advice, Attorneys General are conservative by nature and they give the most timid of advice. The Minister of State has said - or perhaps it was Senator Naughton - that a preponderance of legal opinion is in favour of...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: This is all on the amendment.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: There are quite a lot of pizza companies in the United States ---
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I wish to say at this point that ---
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: It will be interesting to learn how many Labour Party rebels there are - good for them. The letter writer continues by noting that the Constitution is clear and that it:...provides that "The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare of the Nation and the State." Paragraph 3...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: The Minister of State is a very decent person. I will remind him of the Minister’s Second Stage speech in which it was stated, "I accept this is not ideal but the existing constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage is a blockage in that respect". I disagree that there is a constitutional prohibition. The late Declan Costello - I think he is the late. Did he die? Nobody knows,...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Too late. She is inside the House. She is there waving her arms, proudly.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: I do and it is all balderdash. In an e-mail which really moved me - like Tom Jones on “The Voice”, it went through to my heart - she stated:I myself am trans and still married. While we live apart, my wife and I still work together in our tax consultancy practice and we raise our children together. Our property, bank accounts, etc. are all owned jointly. [She goes on to list...
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Splendid, bravo. I knew the Minister of State was a decent guy.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: Well done.
- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)
David Norris: This is about divorce. I will speak on that, if I may.