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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Housing in Developing Countries: Habitat for Humanity (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: They invented concrete.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Housing in Developing Countries: Habitat for Humanity (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I thank the Chairman and I welcome Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Abebe. One of the figures that struck me was that the total slum population is doubling to 2 billion, a horrifying figure. I fully support what Habitat for Humanity is doing. I believe the situation of the planet is going to get worse and worse unless, in parallel with all these things, we confront the appalling population explosion...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I do not believe she is the slightest bit comfortable here. While she is always welcome here and is a good Minister and conscientious person, she looks thoroughly miserable. Her body language is wretched and she looks ashamed and miserable. I feel really sorry for her. I believe she is in a very difficult position and that her heart is on the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I also ask that the transcript be sent to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with the request that they do what they can to advance this unanimous Seanad Éireann motion. We need to hear from someone like the man who is the author of Evangelii Gaudium, the joy of the Gospel.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I think that was Napoleon.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I thank the Senator for her support.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I move: Seanad Éireann consequent upon the unanimous decision of the Committee on Procedures and Privileges to add the name of His Holiness Pope Francis the First to be included among the most prominent distinguished visitors to be invited to address Seanad Éireann, strongly supports this invitation and requests the Government to assist in making the formal arrangements necessary...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I am very heartened by the general support I have received from colleagues. This motion was put before the Committee on Procedure and Privileges and passed unanimously. It now goes before the House. The reason I came up with this idea is that there are very few world leaders who have any kind of vision at all. In the person of Pope Francis, we have someone with a prophetic, compelling...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Can the Senator pursue this vigorously? Previously the Japanese refused a delegation from the Seanad because they wanted only the Lower House. They were very particular about this and I think it very important that we inquire into the intervention of the Dáil Whip in Senate business.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I would like to ask the Deputy Leader if she would agree with me on how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country, particularly on a beautiful day like this. We are always being told laughter is the best medicine and this place is a laugh a minute. We are definitely not a banana republic; we are a Java republic and this appears to have given the Minister for Justice and Equality...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Yes. I am asking her if she agrees with me. The Minister has set up a review which is wonderful. Nobody knows what a review is and it will not do anything. Some judge will get paid some money for it but it is a complete waste of time because the Minister announced the result last night in the Dáil. This is a wonderful country to live in. We had a splendid debate here yesterday on...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: Yes. I am asking her if she agrees with me.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: The article was full of intellectual gymnastics and turned the victim into the perpetrator. It contained all of the usual kind of rubbish that comes out of people who have any connection at all with or are contaminated, should I say, by the Iona Institute. I must say the following with seriousness. Despite all of this bland blather about respectful debate, some of the most hurtful and...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: It is very relevant because I am asking a direct question. It is very relevant because it was a delegation from this House. The Japanese would have gone mad if they had known. This man must have gone around posing as a Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: I do not think that Members of the Lower House should be allowed to pose as Senators.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: We certainly never would demean ourselves by posing as Deputies.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

David Norris: There were no fairies on it either but I would have gone.