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- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I am discussing what happened yesterday. It is a very important matter because the message should go out that asylum seekers were left swinging by the vote. An inaccurate account of the Bill was given by Senator Ó Clochartaigh. He said there was no provision for travelling. I pointed out the section in which this was dealt with. He said the Government would accept no amendments,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I note that despite the fact that it does not specify on the Order Paper the Leader has indicated that No. 1 is to be taken without discussion. This is despite the fact that when I raised this matter on Tuesday the Deputy Leader said that there would be discussion. I move an amendment to the Order of Business that we take No. 1 first with discussion. Although the personnel are by and large...
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: This Bill was not drafted in the belief that it would be a panacea for all the shortcomings and complexities of the current situation. That said, where is the hope here? What we are being presented with is a kind of endless long-fingering which is a great mistake. I have already corrected Sinn Féin representatives who said there were no provisions for travel in the Bill, which there...
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: Bravo.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: On the Vehicle Clamping Bill.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: After 13 years?
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: No, it is not.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: We have the numbers to vote it through.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: That is the argument for it.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: On a point of order, I want to inform the House that Senator Ó Clochartaigh is incorrect when he says there is no provision for travel in the Bill. Section 7(2)(b) expressly provides that people in this situation shall enjoy the same rights of travel within, to or from the State as those which apply to Irish citizens. The Senator is incorrect.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: The council was not consulted.
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I should be shown some latitude as there was a long delay before the Chair was occupied. People attach values to food that are often determined by attitudes, belief, and environmental and religious practices. People in the centres live in a situation of disempowerment. The majority of people recently surveyed who live in these circumstances complained that the food provided did not cater...
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The great Middle English poem, "The Owl and the Nightingale", contains a section in which the owl is impugned for her untidy nest, bad behaviour and disgusting manners. The owl replies majestically by saying that whatever about this, it is nailed to the barn door of the crucifixion to warn off the other birds. That is, and has traditionally...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: Have a bonus.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I welcome and support Senator Power's motion concerning the recognition of the state of Palestine. The Cathaoirleach himself recalled the Seanad, most unusually, during the summer to discuss Gaza during the appalling onslaught on it by Israel. It is a horrifying situation to think that the Euro-Med agreement exists with human rights protocols attached to it but which are never even...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Norris: I am surprised and disturbed that No. 1, on the appointment of the Equality Commission, will be taken without discussion, which seems to me to be a complete abrogation of the role of the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Norris: That is not Seanad Éireann.