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- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Surely it is at the most critical stage when it is in transition.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The Chair should not instruct Members what to do. They should be left floating because that is a way we could defeat them. The Chair's intervention was improper.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is up to them to make up their own minds. Direction from the Chair is not helpful. I speak as someone who managed to defeat a Government on precisely this point. There was confusion and it was helpful.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The Chair should not instruct Members what to do. They should be left floating because that is a way we could defeat them. The Chair's intervention was improper.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is up to them to make up their own minds. Direction from the Chair is not helpful. I speak as someone who managed to defeat a Government on precisely this point. There was confusion and it was helpful.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: No. That relates to amendment No. 4. The Senator is speaking to amendment No. 3.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I would like to strongly support this amendment and it is for that reason I added my name to it. First, this is a question of openness, transparency and accountability, of that there is no doubt. I remember when the Competition Authority legislation was going through this House under the direction of a previous Minister, who subsequently curiously became Minister for Health, the then...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: The same lack of logic applies to it.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: It is not logical.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Surely it is at the most critical stage when it is in transition.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: If Senator MacSharry would like me to do so, I would be very happy to second it.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I am astonished about this. The section states: "A person may not be appointed as an appointed director unless he or she is a person who is an employee of the Executive holding the grade of national director in the Executive." There could not be a clearer example of what used to be called, with great scorn, "jobs for the boys" or "jobs for the boys and girls". In other words, we are...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: So it is a deal?
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: A temporary little arrangement - I remember that phase.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Senator Barrett wants to speak before the vote on the amendment.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Senator Barrett is too modest.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: People might resent it as a sunset clause.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I compliment my colleague and friend Senator Crown on his gloriously mixed metaphor. It was a remarkable stylistic achievement but we all agree with the Senator. He has such an impish sense of fun, which I believe is also shared by the Minister. This amendment seems to be in concert with the Minister's ambition. Sunset clauses are not unknown in legislation. They serve a useful purpose in...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: We could bring forward the deadline.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
David Norris: On a point of order, despite my long-standing friendship with Senator Leyden, that was a completely inappropriate remark and I ask him in a spirit of gentlemanliness to withdraw it.