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- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2010)
David Norris: They attempted in every way to prevent me having a say. They were also extremely personally abusive to me. If you, Senator Keaveney, find this entertaining, you are a lesser human being than I thought you were.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: If I could just have one minute to sayââ
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: No. I am an Independent and I can float. I do not have much confidence in this Government.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: The Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, will do the best he can in the time that is left to him in the knowledge that this Government will be gone at the next election. It has behaved with a certain amount of responsibility. In particular, I pay tribute to the courage and integrity of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, who has been outstanding both in his personal life and in the way he...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: However, I am not convinced that he is right and it is appalling to hear confirmation tonight from one of our committees that â¬20 billion of Irish taxpayers' money is being poured down the drain. I am afraid, with respect to the decency of many of the people in the current Government, that I will be voting in favour of the motion of no confidence in the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: In Ulysses, James Joyce reminds us all of our shared humanity. Bloom, as he walks around Dublin, considers his repressed Jewish people all over the world. I never believed I would see a Nationalist crowd in Derry applauding a British Prime Minister who told the truth fearlessly. It was extraordinary. Bloom would use the imaginative force so movingly evoked by Senator Harris to encompass...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I call upon the Israeli authorities to end their cynical, heartless and contemptible exploitation of the Holocaust for their political purposes. It lets everyone down, including the tragic victims of Auschwitz and every other terrible camp. Yesterday, the German Government shamefully and forcibly deported a series of Roma people and their children back to what are effectively death camps in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: And Tibet.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
David Norris: No, it was done by the Israeli authorities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I agree with Senator Fitzgerald regarding her concern about the state of the country's finances and the reports we have received and it is a pity that these inquiries will not take in what one might call "the night of the long fangs" when the bankers secretly visited the sources of power here and sank their teeth into the bank accounts of ordinary, decent citizens. I look forward to some...
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Speaking as a reasonably intelligent but unqualified observer of financial matters, there seems to be nothing new in either report. They confirm what any person with average intelligence could have said and rightly did say. They are not explosive in terms of their intellectual content, irrespective of the political reception with which they were met. Reference, some charming, has been made...
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: During May and June 2007 an inspection of commercial property lending in Bank A found that 28% of the loans had breached the bank's credit policy, but inspectors reported no high priority issues. Nearly one third of the bank's loans were rotten, yet they were not worried about them. In December 2007 inspectors were told that lenders had no concerns about the ability of five large commercial...
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: It is extraordinary that we should not investigate this and that there should be an absence of documentation about the most serious decisions for the financial future of this country that were ever taken.
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: It is just unbelievable, and the Minister continues to state there might be some slight Government involvement but it was really all about the macro-economic situationââ
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I thank Senator Coghlan very much.
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: ââleaving senior management in place while providing an open-ended guarantee to two institutions which it should have been clear were on the road to insolvency. We have two banks going bust, and we leave the people responsible for it in the saddle. It is absolutely unbelievable that this should happen and for that reason I am astonished there is such a lack of electricity in the air...
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: I voted against it, too.
- Seanad: Banking Reports: Statements (15 Jun 2010)
David Norris: Do not challenge the system.