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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Work in Syria: Discussion with Médicines sans Frontières (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: The organisation's stance is admirable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Work in Syria: Discussion with Médicines sans Frontières (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Prohibited munitions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Will we be dealing with one item or two at this meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: That is all right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Absolutely. I am a big fan of Médecins Sans Frontières and am of the view that those who work for it are immensely courageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: It came as a delightful surprise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: He was not actually and this kind of virulent nationalism does not get us anywhere.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: It would be good if we had the Senator occasionally talk about murders on the other side to give a little balance. We have all spoken moderately up to now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Yesterday I adopted the guise of the great Dean Jonathan Swift. That was possibly a tactical error as some of my colleagues believed I was posing as Shakespeare. The point I was making nevertheless remains relevant, that we must express our outrage as clearly, visibly and publicly as possible at the financial mess in which we now find ourselves. The issue is heightened by the fact that our...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: A swift response would be appropriate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: A swift response would be appropriate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: It would be rubbish.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Total moonshine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I refer to the communication I mentioned to the Cathaoirleach yesterday. It is addressed "To the Governors and the subject people of the island of Ireland". Sirs, it is nigh three hundred years since my last epistle. I then had lifted my pen to warn the people of the calamity about to befall the nation from the imposition of a debased currency on the citizenry to their grave disadvantage...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I am. The question is coming and is addressed to the Cathaoirleach. I refer to an impoverishment of the citizenry, the establishment of soup kitchens for the destitute, eviction of those in arrears of debt, rack-renting for those with the temerity to improve their properties and the recreation of the memories of hedge schools for our children. And all this to pay for the Grasshopper's...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
David Norris: ----- to render the real money bled from the plain people useless by destruction; this to be done in the course of a further extravagance taking the form of a pyrotechnic display during which the furnaces of the Central Bank will be employed to the withering of our substance. Is it not appropriate that though not invited, and indeed not even cognisant of the original party, the people of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
David Norris: I support my colleague Senator Quinn in asking that we take notice of the situation regarding the Sri Lankan citizen. I am aware of this case and Members of both Houses have taken this matter on board. I also watched with interest the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Diarmuid Martin. I thought he was in an awkward position and dealt with it reasonably well. I was surprised he repeated something...