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- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: Water is a scarce resource in this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: It should not be.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: Is it scarce?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: It does not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: I thank my colleague, Senator Mullen, for reminding me that the National Women's Council is having a briefing session in the AV room. I intend to attend that meeting because it is important that we are fully informed. It is slightly silly to suggest that we should debate matters in anticipation of an expert review on anything. If we are serious about having a dignified debate it is always...
- Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister. It is significant that he has attended the House for this important debate. I empathise with a great deal, but not all, of the content of the motion in the name of the Independent Senators. It is important that the Seanad be used as a place where there are intelligent voices of dissent, of which I hope to be one. The motion's first point reads: "repeats its...
- Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (18 Apr 2012)
David Norris: When I twice raised the issue of the forcible castration of 16 year old boys in Holland, the only person in this House who referred to it was Senator Cummins. I suggest that the motion be amended to include the whole of the human species and not just women. I am sure that the proposers would agree with that. I will refer to criminalising the purchase of sex. I do not approve of...
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Well said.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Definitely not.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: It was by no means the only intervention.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: They did nothing. It was done by Michael Smith and Colm Mac Eochaidh. There was no investigative journalism in this country.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: It was a safe one.
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I thank the Minister and his advisers for the careful, reasoned and balanced approach they have taken to the Bill, which I find heartening. They noticed the tweaking I had done, but I accept more needs to be done. Obviously, people who take street photographs as an art form should not be excluded. The Minister stated, "...there is no substantial evidence that the indefensible excesses of...
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to the House. I express my sympathies to him on the recent burglary that took place in his home and ask him to pass on my sympathies also to his wife. Nothing could provide a more appropriate context for the introduction of a new tort of violation of privacy. Burglary is a...
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: I will finish on this and come back later because I have a right to reply. The question of Ms Charlotte Church was a complete fabrication, not least because she was not there on the night of the events of which she was accused. Nobody checked with her. Apparently, nobody thought about whether this was intrusive, let alone true. To use the Mr. Kelvin MacKenzie line, that "if it sounded...
- Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)
David Norris: Hear, hear.