Results 10,041-10,060 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: To the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: He has a big whip and a big stick.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: To whomever. I am sure that someone could be found.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: One does not expect much in the way of initiative or intelligence from the Government, but it would be refreshing if, occasionally, it joined up one or two of the dots. I speak particularly of the situation whereby we are implementing charges for water. We do not know what the charges are. We do not know what the costs of meters are. We know it is going out to tender. I have spoken in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: The gas board is involved in putting them in. That is called gas, spelt G-A-S. It is putting in the water, spelt W-A-T-E-R. The same operation provides electricity, spelt E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-T-Y.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
David Norris: In other countries it is perfectly feasible to put remotely readable meters in. Why not put the whole bloody lot in at the same time and stop them digging up pavements, including antique listed pavements in the centre of Dublin, three times in order that we can pay English companies for the benefit of wrecking our city? Could the Leader ask the Minister to try to join up a small number of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: Splendid.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: On a point of information and order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: If Senator Walsh shuts up I would get it made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: On a point of order, disorder and information, would Senator Mullen be kind enough, through the Leader, to circulate the details of Exit International because I will certainly be joining it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: I congratulate him because having spent a lifetime of political activity trying to control people's lives-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: -----he is now trying to control their deaths as well. He can hump off as far as I am concerned.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: Yes. Would the Leader please write on our behalf to the Swedish Academy to ask it to withdraw the Nobel Prize it gave without evidence – to use the current phrase – to Mr. Obama before he had been tried, while he was on probation? He has now shown himself to be in the same class as Mr. Bush and I think it should be-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: It is absolutely. It is relevant to the world. The academy should take back the Nobel Prize and give it to Mr. Snowden for letting us know what is happening in these murky areas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: And it privileges the banks too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
David Norris: I salute Pope Francis I, who is emerging as one of the great figures of the 21st century. I say that because on his first journey outside Rome he recognised the plight of the people in desperation from north Africa trying to make it to "Fortress Europe". It was a dangerous position for a Pope to take. He will be opposed by all the right-wing governments in northern Europe, but I found it...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)
David Norris: I propose 17 September.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Visa Applications (4 Jul 2013)
David Norris: That is if Senator Quinn's amendment is accepted.