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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I agree.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I wish to correct something I said. One of my colleagues said I had mentioned Anglo Irish Bank as being the bonus people, when I meant to say Allied Irish Banks. Perhaps the record might show this.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: No.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: The application of mathematical models to human disability is a rather unattractive trait in government. That is what we are seeing in this instance and I do not like it. I have always believed in the old socialist maxim, from each according to his or her ability to each according to his or her need, but I am not sure that is what the Bill does in any convincing way. The Minister has not...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: Including the blind.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: The Minister cannot have been all that good at it if they made-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: The record should show that the Leader, Senator Cassidy, is guillotining the debate.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: The debate has been guillotined.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I will be opposing the Bill for reasons I have made clear on the Order of Business and throughout the day when other measures were being discussed. With regard to the minimum wage, I was concerned because I had been contacted by people involved in the restaurant business and by people in unions. As far as I am concerned, the situation has been satisfactorily ironed out and I have no...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: How about a minimum interest rate from the ECB, like the other countries?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: They were on their own.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: The Argentinians were not part of an economic union.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I shall come back to it. The Minister can leave it alone. I have heard his answer and will deal with it.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I will make a brief intervention because I know the business of the House must continue. On the troubled matter of Tús, I heard the Minister's intervention. He explained it with a seanfhocal which I understood. If I am correct, it means "a good start is half the work". I said I assumed it meant "start" or "beginning"; therefore, I was right. If the Minister considered my inadequacy was...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews. It is a somewhat guarded welcome, although I commend him on a number of matters, including his recent performances on television. He has had a lonely and isolated position. He has put forward a reasonable view of the Government's performance in very difficult circumstances and I respect the decency and balance with which he has done...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: It is disgraceful that the Bill is being rushed through and that the debate on it is being guillotined. For that reason and because I do not agree with it - I believe we should renegotiate - and because I do not believe we should penalise the most vulnerable-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: -----I will vote against it on every Stage. I will vote in favour of every amendment tabled to it. I will vote down the Bill if I have power to do so-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: -----and urge my friends in the other House to vote against it also.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

David Norris: I have one theme today, that is, whistleblowing. I congratulate the Government on ensuring our ambassador to Norway, Mr. Gary Ansbro, attended the Nobel peace prize ceremony to honour to Liu Xiaobo, who is a whistleblower about human rights in China. I fully support Mr. Julian Assange, the organiser of WikiLeaks. It is extraordinary that his reputation has been impugned in the way it has...