Results 11,441-11,460 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is one of the most outrageous things I have ever heard in my life.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: All I am saying is that it would be a very poor day for Seanad Ãireann and this republic if citizens were not allowed to challenge.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Senator impugned their motivation.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The judge found a service had been done.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I inherited furniture which was made by a great Irish craftsman as part of my family tradition and I will not apologise to Senator Gilroy or anyone else. I remember the days when people wanted to pull down and level every Georgian house in the country. They have changed their tune.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: We do not have the money.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am being consistent.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I make the point that I was the person who named the bondholders in this House when the Government did not have the guts to do it.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Minister of State should let Members have this information. He should let Members know how many of the credit unions are involved. He is trailing around red herrings. What proportion is held by Irish bondholders?
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Senator should ignore them. That is what I do.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. He is in fine form and is being honest and clear. However, his honesty and clarity just underline to me how dangerous the situation is and how absolutely futile our efforts are - how impotent we are in the face of the bullying that is going on. I did not hear terribly well. I thought I heard the Minister of State say that this undermines...
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Well, it undermines it, in my opinion. As for the firewall, a firewall made out of firelighters is not an awful lot of use. It is madness. Half of the countries that are supposed to be contributing are bankrupt. We know they are bankrupt. Where are they borrowing the money from? Senator Marie Louise O'Donnell told me the other day that she had seen a performance by the comedian Tommy...
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: No, but it shows that the thing has become grotesque and surrealistic. This notion of borrowing in order to put money into a fund that is going to save us is bizarre economics, and is precisely the kind of thing the other House is screwing Deputy Mick Wallace over. The Government's behaviour, at international level, is the same behaviour it has criticised in an individual. It is dishonest....
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I will certainly do that. I take it we will get to that section? It is part of the treaty.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I will certainly raise that, and I thank the Minister for his suggestion. However, I am concerned about the way things are run. We started discussing this just before noon. I received notice at 11.45 a.m. that my amendments were not allowed.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I hardly think that, but perhaps if some of the ideas that I clearly, consistently and cogently argued in this House had been listened to by previous Governments - and I would be happy to make whatever little groatsworth of wit I have available to the rest of Europe - we would not be in this mess. The Minister of State may look back and see what I said, and he may check to see whether I was...
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I will leave it at that. I am not exaggerating myself and saying I am the great panjandrum who can solve the whole thing. I am not making that claim. I am just saying that if one looks back at the record of the House, one will find something very interesting. Perhaps it would have been useful if we had been allowed, not by the Parliament or by the parties but by the media, to discuss...
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Not maybe; it will not be.
- Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)
David Norris: As long as it rescues the German banks.