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- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Both are legal and right and recognised as such.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The Senator said the same yesterday. He should be fined for repetition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is a great tribute to the de Valera Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Leader. What about the Order of Business on Tuesday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)
David Norris: It is a very bad practice. I will not call a vote on the Order of Business on this occasion but I will the next time.
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and she is a rare jewel in the Government. I wish to share my time equally, with the indulgence of the House, with my colleague and friend, Senator Feargal Quinn.
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I wish to acknowledge the presence in the Visitors Gallery of an old friend and former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Michael O'Halloran. We need to adopt a positive view and a bit of vision. Mr. Michael O'Halloran showed vision by founding the Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament. We need to think not just in terms of a medical model, although it is terribly important, but also in terms of the...
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is the perfect word to describe them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Deputy Leader for her kind remarks about Bloomsday. I was pleased to send a message of congratulations to her colleague, Senator Susan O'Keeffe, about Yeats Day. The President has graciously accepted our invitation to attend the opening of Bloomsday at 8 p.m. in the James Joyce Centre. I wish to raise a serious issue that I have raised previously and which is covered by No. 23,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am calling for a debate on this report for the reasons I have just set out. The entire political system has been corrupted and vitiated and politicians made terrified. Against this background, I was astonished by the observation made by the Press Ombudsman of Ireland on "Morning Ireland" on 29 May that the message from the Leveson inquiry to British newspaper editors was that the current...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: -----is of the view that the system is merely "not quite up to scratch." We must have a full debate on all of these issues in order that the people can be protected in an increasingly vicious situation where, because of financial pressure on newspapers, young journalists, in particular, are being bullied. Editors are the worst people in many of the lowest elements of the press because it is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: The author of the report stands over it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: It begs the question as to whether pressure was applied to the organisation to do so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Creation ab nihilo.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I am very happy to return to the English department at any time if-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: Splendid. Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: That is highly unlikely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: If Germany had invaded, they would have been damned fools not to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I would have supported them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
David Norris: I would have supported the British.