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Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: I have visited it. I was going to say how impressed I was with how they had remodelled the building.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: As the Minister is the local involved, I will not waste too much time on the issue. I also enjoyed his wonderful mixed metaphors about the ship of State needing to be bailed out and then building a children's hospital on it. I do not think I would build a children's hospital on a ship that was sinking. The Minister has said this is something absolutely routine; why, therefore, do we need...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: We are getting a measly sum of less than one third from it, which is extraordinary. If we can make so much money out of it, why does the Government not nationalise it? Why are we so stupid? Are we telling the international community that we are lazy, stupid, thick and inefficient; that we cannot even run our own lottery and that if it does it for us, we will it them shovel loads of money?...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: The Minister is right, it is. Children are always introduced as a defence. The children's hospital will be built and I do not think selling off the national lottery is a fit excuse for it. This idea is included in the motion and the Minister's speech. The motion should have the support of the House. There should be a free vote on it. The national lottery belongs to the people. I do not...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: I do apologise to the Senator for using words of more than one syllable. I shall try to be monosyllabic in the future.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: Certainly, when the other Senator withdraws his.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: It would help if the Minister listened.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: She is the one who is speaking.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: That is correct.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: The Minister specialises in slurs. He made the same accusations at the committee meeting.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: I understand that happened before this agreement was devised.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: As is the threat from states.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: I do not believe this would have arisen only I spotted it going through. There are too many of these instruments going through without debate and I am pleased I forced a debate on it although it is only a small one. The Minister's speech is a recital of what he has said previously. He stated the data would be depersonalised and fields that could identify an individual would be masked and...

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: It was going through without debate until I raised the matter.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: How is that a threat to the United States?

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: Or ever.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: He has ordered ten times the number of drones President Bush did.

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: What has sexual orientation got to do with it?

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Norris: I do not believe I was being hysterical. I think the Minister should withdraw that remark. It is the usual slur that people like him use against-----