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- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is an appalling comment to have made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
David Norris: The Senator could go for a nice walk in the sea breezes.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: If not, I will share time with Senator Higgins. I only need two minutes.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Higgins.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I will only take a minute. She has my permission if she wishes to take my time. I congratulate Senator Kelly, a new Senator, on his excellent Bill. I am not sure if he had the assistance of the drafting service but I want to take the opportunity to welcome the fact that for the first time we now have the assistance of a drafting service in this House. It is a very important service of...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister but was disappointed in his speech, which was pretty limp and failed to address the serious problem of standards and ethics in journalism. There are very few of them around. I have been a paid up member of the National Union of Journalists for many years. For three and a half years I worked honourably for what could be described as a tabloid newspaper. Since 1982 I...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: I have had to change my telephone number on three or four occasions. How did grub street get my changed telephone number within 12 hours? I wish there was more time. I hope we will have a proper debate in which we do not shilly-shally and that we will have the guts to address the issue because there is not a newspaper, radio station or television station that has not vilified, blackguarded,...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: On a point of order, I wish to note that in my general criticisms of the press I should have exempted in recent times the Sunday Independent.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is no accident that Mr. McDowell got his article printed.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: It is a correction.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Are we not coming back?
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: There are no sanctions at all.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: That is no comfort to the families that have been violated. I was punished by the media for raising their cases. Perhaps the Minister will comment on the bullying of politicians by editors.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Yes. I have evidence.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: So am I.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Every single one of them is happening here.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Some sections of the press have. There is no doubt about it.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: The Minister should listen to the evidence that was given by witnesses as the Leveson inquiry about what is going on in Ireland. They said it.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
David Norris: Did Mr. McMullan not say he knows that the same practices exist in Ireland?