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- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: The universities will be deformed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: Good.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: Well if you like it, bully for you, honey.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I think we are.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: It is no use putting them in tiered bunks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I would like to strongly support the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, in his decision to take on the bin companies, particularly in Dublin. Privatisation was a great mistake. If six companies, or thereabouts, can make a profit out of the bins, why on earth can the employees of the State not make a profit out of one company? That should have been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I wish to draw Mr. Modai's attention to page 5 of his script, which states: The fact that, even though males aged 17 to 30 make up 10% of the Gaza population, their proportion among the dead was 44%, did not seem to raise an eyebrow in the media. These men were of course Hamas terrorists.That is what the ambassador said. He did not say, "A proportion..."; he said, "These men..."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I have one final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: That is fine. I have before me the script that was supplied. Reference was made to talking to Hamas. I am sitting next to my good friend, Deputy Seán Crowe. Some 30 years ago, the organisation of which is a member condemned me to death and threatened to kill me. I still maintained that section 31 of the Broadcasting Act that forbade them air time should have been removed and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I will leave it at that but I refer the ambassador to what I said when the Seanad was recalled. I gave vent extensively on the subject.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I beg the Chair's pardon but I must contradict him on that. She is a diplomatic representative of the State of Israel-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: -----and she issued comments. Having been very open on this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: -----when one speaks about sexual orientation, what about your comment that people's sexual orientation should be used to embarrass them if they were pro-Palestinian?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I would be grateful for an opportunity to place on record my background, as it has been impugned. I have spoken not only on Israel but also on Tibet, East Timor, Nicaragua, Syria, Bosnia, Guatemala, Iraq and Iran - I could go on forever. I am interested in human rights. I also supported the evacuation of Jewish people from Russia and continually supported Israel when it was in the right. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I am asking a question. Was it appropriate for the ambassador to ventriloquise for someone who is here and who, having spoken, is not in a position to answer? On what basis does the ambassador make the statement that because males aged between 17 and 30 make up 10% of the Gaza population and their proportion among the dead was 44%, "[t]hese men were Hamas terrorists"? Is it now the logic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: A negotiation was made without reference to Hamas. The ambassador stated that he had not heard one solution or positive suggestion. I will give him one. Israel should talk to Hamas, the appropriately elected Government of Palestine, regrettable as that may be, in the same way as it speaks to the regime in Egypt. Every time an Islamic government is elected, the United States, the West and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
David Norris: I am sorry.