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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: No. The Senator is too fat.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I have made the point
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I apologise to the Minister. I return to my point. There seems to be no statutory basis for the committee, commission or whatever it is the Minister has established.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It is interesting and somewhat amusing that the Minister has repeated with great relish the phrase "camera slut", yet the other day he objected to me using the phrase "nutjob". I do not see much of a difference. "Nutjob" is a perfectly reasonable phrase to use.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: To use the Minister's own words, he is having his cake and eating it too.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: On the one hand, the Minister is being very precious about the use of language, but, on the other, he flies out with the extravagant phrases Senator McDowell ill-advisedly and so uncharacteristically used on television.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I certainly hope I am gendered. I do not want to be neutered.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I never called the Minister a nutjob.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It was on an entertainment, rather than, a political programme.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Although I will be voting with Senator McDowell if there is a division, I am inclined to accept the Minister's statement. If the Attorney General, for example, is precluded, because of the possibility of a criminal prosecution, from making germane information available to the Cabinet, it is unlikely that people would breach the doctrine of Cabinet confidentiality.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It would have to engage the services of people like the Minister, Deputy Shane Ross.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: If my Sinn Féin colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh would like it, I will very happily second her proposal, if I am not usurping Sinn Féin's place. I wish to express my great sadness at the partial destruction of Notre Dame cathedral, one of the saddest aspects of which is the very large destruction of medieval glass in the rose windows. These can never be replaced and it is really...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, is at it again.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Except that they were rebels and traitors.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Well done.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I referred to the medieval glass.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: What about the accountants? Are they any use?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Loud laughter ensues.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: What about amendments for Report Stage?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Will there be provision for a break to allow us to-----