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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: They do not and never have.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: They do not.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Frau Merkel's lap-dog.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Jute is working very well.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Some - most of them are excellent.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: There are one or two dreary little-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: I would like to ask the Leader if we can have a debate on the situation in Áras Attracta in Swinford, County Mayo, where there was substantial and serious abuse of patients, especially in Bungalow Three. I understand a programme on this will be broadcast tonight. I would like to express my sympathy to the patients and their relatives. However, the root cause of this is austerity and...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

David Norris: Some of them.

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State but I have it to say that I rather doubt the first line of his speech. He said he was delighted to be here to discuss this issue. I imagine no member of either Fine Gael or the Labour Party is delighted to have anything to do with it.

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

David Norris: I think they would like it to run away and disappear. I believe they wish it had never bloody happened and they are perfectly right. They guillotined it when it was going through the Dáil. Not one amendment was accepted in Seanad Éireann but now they are doing some of the things that we in this House recommended at the time. The Minister of State will excuse me if I take his...

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

David Norris: It was the HSE. The HEA is another organisation. I thank my distinguished academic colleague, Senator Professor Dr. Sean Barrett, for correcting me on this occasion; I am a little addled. Let us consider the protests. People did not protest, they lay down slavishly under it. Then, the Europeans got a survey done and it turned out that in Europe and the United Kingdom, people were...

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

David Norris: I call this the Irish Watergate, all one word. The Government is wasting its money on the bloody meters. It will be another situation like the voting machines and all the other rubbish produced. In four years' time they will be rusting and someone from the Government will be paying one of his party members down in County Wexford to give them house room and keep them out of the rain. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

David Norris: In the past week or two during a convalescence I have taken to walking around my area, which is the Georgian core of Dublin. What I have seen has absolutely horrified me. I have seen an area of dereliction and waste. If one goes along towards the basin of North Frederick Street and Blessington Street one can see this and one can see it in the houses behind as well. In Nelson Street two...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

David Norris: I must respectfully disassociate myself from the remarks of Senator White when she dismissed the Taoiseach's nominees as they stand at the moment because ---

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

David Norris: I have been here for 30 years and I have never heard them disparage this side of the House, disparage the Senate, look down on us or lecture us. I have not heard that at all. I have seen the best, most diverse, most individual and the most independent group of Taoiseach's nominees in the 30 years I have been in this House. I do not always agree with them. Indeed, I can disagree with them...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

David Norris: What the Leader has just told us about the establishment of a review committee is just another example of the outrageous, cavalier and arrogant attitude of the Government. It has established a committee without any consultation with the Senate and without anyone from the Senate sitting on said committee. It is absurd and an absolute disgrace. This is also why I object to this Bill, in a...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

David Norris: Here we are, having this debate but I am the only person in this House, out of 60 Members, who bothered to table any amendments. I tabled 11 amendments, including one providing for the removal of the Whip from Members of the House. My amendments also deal with the proposal to take away €21,000 from us. There is a provision to reduce our income by €21,000 which is bloody fine...