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Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: He will be very welcome here.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: All the costs are too high in the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Recovery: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I welcome our three guests. Mr. O'Mahony demonstrated the importance of the contribution from the backbenches when he was suddenly called in to contribute. This is the first time we have been provided with questions in our briefing. I never remember that happening before. There were some suggested questions. I looked through them with interest. It is a curious procedure but helpful in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Recovery: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: There was not much trade with the Vatican.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Recovery: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I was thinking more in terms of extraordinary rendition. We had a committee established in the Seanad and it was destroyed as a result of commercial pressures from the Shannon area. The human rights aspect was got rid of.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House. She is an ornament to her Department, as she was to this House when she was Leader of the Opposition. This is a simple, technical, one-page Bill. The first amending section provides for the substitution of 28 days with 29 days as the maximum duration for an interim care order. I read the Minister's speech but I was not completely clear about why this...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: It leaves people's professional reputations impugned.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Good on Senator O'Sullivan.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: The Irish Times is wrong on other matters also.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

David Norris: A week ago, the British Parliament passed legislation about gay marriage. Yesterday, the French Parliament passed similar legislation, also by an overwhelming majority. It was described as a great and noble effort by the French Minister for Justice. This was done despite the machinations of the Roman Catholic Church, which gave its premises free of charge to house people and to mount...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I will be obedient and report progress.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I invite the Minister of State to enlighten the House as to what the nature of the different circumstances would entail under section 7(4)(b). That would help us to make up our minds on that. With regard to section 7(4)(c), what are the different areas of the State? Will it be province by province, county by county or city by city? What would be the intrinsic characteristics of those...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I am now completely confused. The Minister of State, having stalwartly maintained that the Government would not introduce quantity licensing, went off on a tangent about Senator Barrett's ideological views on laissez-faire economics and all the rest of it. If Senator Barrett has those views, I certainly do not share them. The Minister of State then appeared to be making an argument for...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: It should not be there.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: I assume in my innocence that the Minister of State will accept this amendment. I base this on the fact that after a certain amount of obfuscation and prevarication he eventually came around, in response to our arguments about the superiority of judgments of the court and the impropriety that tended to overrule them by regulations, to say that this was a matter of qualitative rather than...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: The Minister of State cannot; he should say "Yes" to it and we can then move on.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

David Norris: The Minister of State is rejecting it.