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- Seanad: Political Reform: Statements (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: We do now but we did not at the beginning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: I want people in the House like the Leader of this House, like Senator Whelan and Senator Gilroy, who have known what it is like to be unemployed. Should people really be expected to come off the unemployment register and to work for nothing? If so, people are living in cloud cuckoo land and I do not give a damn if it is unpopular, I am saying it and I will not stop saying it. I sometimes...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: This has been a remarkable week. It was a remarkable result and it is one I welcome. It would have been a tragedy had the referendum been passed on the tissue of lies, half-truths and cynicism presented by the Government. It would have undermined respect for democracy. It teaches us a lesson. When it became clear that it was completely wrong that the alleged figure of €20 million...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Not those who did nothing.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
David Norris: It is a sham.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
David Norris: It will not abolish upward only rent reviews but it will abolish the Seanad.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Breathless as I am, I am very glad I am able to take part in this debate. I have just come from a very interesting debate with George Hook on Newstalk about the future of this House and am very glad to say that the response from the people, about whom the Taoiseach is always talking, was pretty positive in regard to keeping the Seanad. However, this was contradicted by the taxi driver who...
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
David Norris: -----but indeed we are, and tonight is a classic example of it and I am proud to be present to vote for this Bill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: We have already extinguished two parliaments in Ireland to our disadvantage, Grattan's Parliament and Seanad Éireann in 1936. We managed to bring that back. Let us not make the same mistake a third time. I am asking you, a Chathaoirligh, to use your position and eloquence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: There is that precedent and we expect that you, as our leader and as the person in command of Seanad Éireann, might consider doing us the honour of leaving the Chair, addressing us and telling us that Seanad Éireann must be saved and not be destroyed by lies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: I express my sympathy to the families of the two unfortunate girls who were brutally and horribly raped in Athlone. I listened with great interest to a woman who was protesting about the crime outside a local Garda station. She stated we should forget the Seanad referendum and protect our children. In this regard, to respond to those who argue the Seanad has not done anything, this Seanad...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Is it true?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: False memory syndrome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.