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- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Bruscar.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: We can save the teanga without buying the Irish Daily Mail.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Rubbish. Try to tell the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Rubbish followed by cliche.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I invite the Senator to have a look back at my record and see what I have said over the last five or ten years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I got it right, unlike Senator Keane's colleagues and those who were in government before them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: It is not my responsibility if Senator Keane's ears were closed when I spoke.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: That is not true either. I ask the Senator to withdraw that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I have congratulated the Government when it has been entitled to congratulations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: It is simply not true to say I am always negative. I demand that Senator Keane withdraws it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I want to be protected.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Will you direct Senator Keane to withdraw her comments?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I am a Member of this House and I am entitled to be treated with the respect that is shown to other people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Five times.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I join my colleagues in saluting Jimmy Walsh. I regret his retirement as he had an acute political intelligence and humane values. He stuck with this House when every other newspaper skedaddled out of it. We will miss him and we need to ensure that The Irish Times, which calls itself the paper of record, continues to report on this House. I welcome Senator Heffernan most heartily to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: He is a splendid man. He is the only one from the Government side, apart from the Taoiseach's Independent nominees, who has shown the moral courage to cross the House to vote in favour of the ordinary people. If some of the others had his guts and courage, this House would have been saved, because it would have been shown to be on the side of the people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
David Norris: I confidently predict that while Fine Gael may well get a belt of the ballot paper at the next election, the Labour Party will be wiped out. It will not be wiped out because of its socialism, but because of its lack of socialism. Who is running this so-called democratic Europe? It is the banks and the ratings agencies. Where are the democratic elements that will stand up and tell the ECB...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Yes, I am. The system has cracked from top to bottom. Five years ago - please God someone will start to listen now - I started saying this and will now put it as simply as I can. The mistake being made is that all over Europe half-baked politicians, analysts and economists are saying we must preserve the system. Good governance starts with the welfare of the people and one then adjusts...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
David Norris: Will he accept that in raiding the National Pensions Reserve Fund, through the pension levy and the property tax they have their fingers in our pockets, just as they have in Cyprus? Do Members remember the advertisement in which someone was pickpocketing------
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
David Norris: That is what they are doing. We lay down, but thank God for the Cypriots. They are courageous and a great little people and I am proud to have a house in that country. We have one person in this country of whom we can be proud, Mrs. Mary Robinson, in terms of what she has been elected to do.