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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: That is a propaganda statement. I want an answer to my question.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: On a point of clarification, the record should show that once again it was the Government side that failed to take up Private Members' time, lending credence to my suggestion that elements on that side of the House are determined to wind down Seanad Éireann.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I would like to second Senator O'Brien's suggestion that we take motion No. 9 today. Not including the question of the abolition of the Seanad in the constitutional convention would make the convention an absolute farce. I am a little worried by the way the Seanad is going. Yesterday again, we had no Order of Business and today, again, we have no Private Members' business. It is almost as...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I am sorry; there is one other thing I wanted to mention. The constitutional convention should also examine not just the term of the Presidency, but, as every party in this House has said historically, the method of election. We are avoiding the real issues and just dealing with side issues. It is a farce.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I welcome the Bill to the House. I wish to place on record my regret that there was not a proper Order of Business today. This was regrettable indeed. I also wish to state without any impertinent reference to the present Minister's beliefs that I have challenged on several occasions the saying of the prayer because I regard it as sectarian. Although I am a believing Christian myself I...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I still got them on the record and that is what matters to me. This is an interesting and significant Bill. As the Minister stated, it follows the case of Mr. Ali Charaf Damache v. The Director of Public Prosecutions and others. This is because a warrant issued under section 29 of the Offences against the State Act by a detective superintendent, whom I will not name but whose name is known...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jun 2012)

David Norris: Unfortunately, it turned out that the vast majority of people whose houses were broken into by the police on foot of warrants were completely innocent. This highlights the fact that we must be very careful. A case is under way at the moment involving a Mr. Ted Cunningham. He is using a challenge to section 29 to obtain a situation where the Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I am concluding now. I wish to state without any intention of being provocative that this is a Jesuitical distinction between an urgent consideration and an absolute one. If it urgent it should also be absolute.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I express concern about No. 1 on the Order Paper in which it is stated there will be no Order of Business on Tuesday next. Unless the Leader is able to give a satisfactory explanation, I shall vote against the Order of Business today. Would the Leader be kind enough to clarify for me a serious report I have received? Apparently, there was a programme on Channel 10 News in Israel on which it...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: That is not entirely true.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: The Senator's approach is not terribly balanced. It is a smear balance.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: I wish to make a correction to what Senator Bradford has said and ask him to withdraw some of his comments, as I believe I have a right to do. The Senator is a good friend of mine but I take great offence at any suggestion that people like me who support Palestinian human rights were not involved in Syria - I was involved in Beirut at the peril of my own life - Iraq or Iran because I was.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: All I asked for was a clarification of a diplomatic communiqué because if it is true it is dynamite-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: -----and reflects on other issues, including a previous election.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: That is the reason I wanted to speak the truth.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: "The West's Awake".

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: Look at what the media does with the information.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: Exactly.