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- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I appreciate the Leader's position and the Minister's.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: We need to look at this. As my colleagues know, I have often raised circumstances in which inappropriate agency staff were used, people who did not even speak English, who did not know anything about drug regimes, who were sometimes drunk. I have a direct and very specific question. Motion 9, proposed by two Independent colleagues and myself, condemns sexual violence in conflict, affirms...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Will the Leader consider bringing this proposal before the House? I would be very happy if it were to become a Government motion. I have no amour propre concerning the ownership of the motion. It would be very well-timed, would be good for our reputation internationally and would commit us to the cause of ending sexual violence against women.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I find this inter-party bickering immensely depressing. In this difficult period we should be putting the interests and welfare of citizens first, not any kind of party advantage. I hope we will join together to try to help people. I accept things are difficult and tight and the Government is in a difficult position. I have attended numerous briefings in recent days and what impressed me...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I find this inter-party bickering immensely depressing. In this difficult period we should be putting the interests and welfare of citizens first, not any kind of party advantage. I hope we will join together to try to help people. I accept things are difficult and tight and the Government is in a difficult position. I have attended numerous briefings in recent days and what impressed me...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Will the Leader consider bringing this proposal before the House? I would be very happy if it were to become a Government motion. I have no amour propre concerning the ownership of the motion. It would be very well-timed, would be good for our reputation internationally and would commit us to the cause of ending sexual violence against women.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I appreciate the Leader's position and the Minister's.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Perry. I am sure he will transmit the gist of what is said here to the Minister for Social Protection, who has regrettably had to leave. The Minister, Deputy Burton, is a decent and courageous person. I do not envy her as she faces such a mammoth task. As I am nearly 70, I have lived through a couple of economic crises, but this is the worst one I...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I said I was dizzy. I beg the Senator's pardon. I thank her for correcting me. It was just a glitch, the rhetorical equivalent of a typo. As I know her well and respect her work, it was completely inadvertent. It is important that we do this because so many times we are told a particular policy cannot be implemented because there is not a means test in the particular Department. I have...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Why take the support from them? In regard to the housing adaptation scheme, if people are to stay at home that scheme is necessary. There are many other issues but we will have an opportunity during the budget debate, which I hope we will have here, to make submissions on behalf of other people, including schools where bullying programmes and guidance councillors must be supported. We have...
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: She needs support from all sides of the House and I hope she takes some of the practical suggestions that have been made here and implements them in so far as possible.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Was I terminated?
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I am terminated.
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: For non-financial corporations it is 222%, and it goes up to 259% for financial corporations. The overall percentage is 85%. That is terribly dangerous. The approach outlined in the Bill is one way out of it and it will free up money into the system. One of the most important elements that is proposed is the notion of a sliding scale of loan-to-value ratios. The first type of property is...
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: He says it would be useful to put in place a highly regulated tabula rasa approach to kick-start the mortgage market again. For anybody who is worried about the phrase from Latin, it just means a clean slate - a chance to restart things. All of us in this House feel that is what we need. I commend the Bill and I congratulate my two colleagues. I am sure the Minister, who I know will...
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House. It is an indication of how serious the Government is taking this issue that the Minister for Finance would present himself to Seanad Ãireann. I regret he was not able to be present, though I am sure it was for very good reasons, when Senators Barrett and Quinn spoke. What they said was so important, so precise, so clear and so brilliantly argued that...
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
David Norris: We all have.