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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

David Norris: The idea that because one is born on a particular patch of land, all of one's extened family have the automatic right to live there is absolute nonsense. Reference has been made to the flight from the land and the desperate efforts made to bring people back. If a family has ten children, should all ten have the right to build on its land? Can they sell that right? This is complete...

Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

David Norris: ...as authoritative. We may be getting ourselves into a situation such as that described in a short story of the late Seamus O'Kelly in which there was a court case involving two families regarding land. They had no knowledge of the intricacies of law but they acquired lawyers who produced maps and one said to the other "sure our maps are as long, as big and as complicated as yours and...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

David Norris: ...patients, their families and supporters have raised €26 million? To a certain extent, the ownership of the hospital, at least morally, is vested in them. Is it the intention to dispose of the land, as this has been happening all over the place and people are being forced from nursing homes on ridiculous and specious arguments about health and safety concerns that involve nothing more...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)

David Norris: ...had suffered because of the Penal Laws. I had an ancestor, of whom I am extremely proud who was a Roman Catholic bishop during the Penal Laws period when my family lost considerable amounts of land and property. It was very offensive. Senator Ó Murchú was magisterially rebuffed by Senator Donohue. On another day I asked that this comment which I had found deeply offensive and...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 May 2010)

David Norris: ...'s show, has caught up at last with the Oireachtas. More than a year ago I raised in the House the question of NCP, the buccaneering clampers who go around fair cities clamping people on private land. A series of people have had the same experience I have had, a kind of a honey trap set up by the clampers in association with the proprietors of the building, with no real legislative...

Seanad: Depleted Uranium Weapons (18 May 2010)

David Norris: ...is disastrous. NATO continues to refuse to provide co-ordinates in respect of unexploded depleted uranium weapons. Some of these weapons are buried over 1 m beneath the surface of agricultural land on which vegetables are still grown. The relevant ministry in Serbia put in place a decontamination programme, provided investment and committed to the location and disposal of these weapons....

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

David Norris: ...bit and apply reason to these issues. I regret that there was a headline in a newspaper today which stated that various people should be shot. These people have done appalling things and have landed this country in misery, but how would that misery be alleviated if some lunatic took up this proposal and murdered one of them? This is the kind of thing done by Republican Party members in...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Statements. (30 Mar 2010)

David Norris: The Green Party, the Minister of State and the other Green members of the Government made sure the damage was as limited as possible and they fought to reverse it. Part of that reversal has landed the Minister of State in the House tonight. Women are in this wonderful situation where they are a minority although they are 51% of the population. I am not good at arithmetic but even I can see...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Statements. (30 Mar 2010)

David Norris: The Green Party, the Minister of State and the other Green members of the Government made sure the damage was as limited as possible and they fought to reverse it. Part of that reversal has landed the Minister of State in the House tonight. Women are in this wonderful situation where they are a minority although they are 51% of the population. I am not good at arithmetic but even I can see...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

David Norris: ...significant, it is essential that our domestic legislation mirrors the European legislation of which I have spoken. Sweden applies these tariffs to Brazilian ethanol, as do Belgium, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Spain. I urge the Minister to accept this amendment and to get involved in direct discussions with the agencies that wish to introduce this type of manufacturing into...

Seanad: Proposed Emergency Funding to Greece: Statements (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I thank my colleague, Deputy Quinn, for sharing time. It is not very edifying for us in Ireland to be included in the acronym PIIGS, but that seems to be what has happened and I am not sure it is entirely our own fault. If one looks at the situation, tax evasion is endemic throughout the Hellenic world. I have a house in Cyprus where the same situation obtains as in Greece. It is a...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (26 Jan 2010)

David Norris: ...to every regulation, like everybody else. If the DSPCA is subject to inspection and brought within the terms of this legislation, what is so bloody special about the hunts? The days of the landed aristocracy are gone.

Seanad: Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security: Motion (21 Jan 2010)

David Norris: ...that our representatives are briefed on it in order that they can untangle it. I am sure many of my colleagues will agree that being forced in some of the airports in London, when one is forced to land in Britain, to go outside the airport and then re-enter and go through passport and customs control and so on again is not what one expects as part of an integrated Europe in the 21st century.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2010)

David Norris: ...It is disgraceful that at a time of economic difficulty well paid people are engaging in an act of gross self-indulgence. I wish to refer to the destruction of some historical records held by the Land Registry. It is extraordinary that this is happening. Several hundred thousand documents are in the process of being destroyed. Some of these may be perfectly ordinary and bureaucratic in...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2009)

David Norris: ...at an international level, it is insane that we allow groups like Standard & Poor's and Fitch to continue to operate because these groups were complicit in such conflicts of interest. We have been landed in a financial mess because people were essentially allowed to rate themselves. It really does not stack up. There may very well be independent minded and forensic people in the...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

David Norris: ...paper supports that view; they all go in the other direction. The rate of VAT should have been reduced because of the movement in the other direction by the United Kingdom, and the fact we have a land border which cannot be patrolled. I would like to address overseas development aid. It is a pity it has been cut by, I understand, €25 million. The Government solemnly declared on...

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (3 Dec 2009)

David Norris: ...colleagues. If he does one thing, let him end the abuse of privilege and make the Minister's words uttered at the weekend real, when he stated no institution and no church was above the law of the land. That is the position as it should be but it is not the position as it stands. Having read the report, will any Minister inform me if it is appropriate that, principally as a result of...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (1 Dec 2009)

David Norris: ...think that would be good for the economy. Perhaps the events which led to the closure of SR Technics are now a matter of history. I have to laugh at Senator MacSharry's remarks on the North of Ireland. I recall the Minister for Finance's call for patriotism during last year's budget debate. We have not seen much patriotism from the banks. People would not demean themselves to take...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: ...certainly is a risk. Even those, like myself, who are not expert economists can see this. On the other side of the House there was a certain amount of posturing that we would get back to certain land values and that no country had suffered this without getting back within less than seven years. Let us hear the truth. It was a bubble and we all know what happens when bubbles burst. You...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Agricultural land prices in Ireland were depressed for 19 years.