Results 9,141-9,160 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: One can with drones and there are plenty of them in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: A flying omelette.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: I agree with Senator Hayden but I wish to challenge one thing she said, because The Irish Times, which is usually a reasonably reliable newspaper-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: -----indicated that there was a cut of €5.6 million in homeless services and a cut of €3.2 million in housing adaptation grants. It was for that reason the members of the city council had to behave in the very honourable and correct way outlined by Senator Hayden. I was also horrified to learn of the tragic death of Mr. O’Gorman. I had never heard of him and never met...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: Yes. Could we have a debate on banking? The banks will not even cash their own bloody cheques. With regard to the Irish Water issue, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, said one cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Who asked him to make an omelette in the first place? I did not. I do not want an omelette. I never ordered one and the Irish people did not want one either.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: As for the eggs he used; there is a rank stink of gas off them as far as I am concerned because the whole thing is-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: I am sorry. Could I make a point?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: It is shocking that information was not given through Parliament, not just here in the Seanad but in the Dáil. It had to be extracted. Thank God for Sean O’Rourke of RTE. Questions were asked-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
David Norris: -----and they were not answered properly. That is an abuse of democracy. Thank God that at least the Seanad survived.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: I am sorry to hear it.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: I thank the Minister for his almost plausible explanation. He says that this has been standard practice and that some form of this section has been in legislation for about 100 years. However, that is the exact reverse of the argument he made yesterday in this House when he said that this was not 1874 but rather 2014 and we have to cope with 2014. If we even provoked the Minister into...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: I am grateful to the Minister. I may concoct an amendment for Report Stage. I very much welcome the Minister's agreeable and flexible attitude to this.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: No, I said what I wanted to say. I support local government. As with the Garda Síochána, post offices and so forth, we should maximise support for rural communities and in that regard I support my Fianna Fáil colleagues on the amendment. The abolition of local councils in historical places such as Kilkenny, from where the Minister comes, Waterford and Cashel is a pity. I...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: I move amendment No. 8: In page 14, to delete lines 8 to 16.With the indulgence of the House, I will read out the paragraph I propose to have deleted before analysing the reasons I am so very much against it. The paragraph reads as follows:If, in any respect, any difficulty arises in bringing any provision of this Act into operation or in relation to the operation of any such provision, the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: It included an enlarged university constituency.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
David Norris: Senator Darragh O'Brien went to the Garda.