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- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: First I wish to place this in a context. At the outset of this economic crisis, I warned that the Government was completely wrong to dismantle every agency that spoke out on behalf of the vulnerable. It did so and this kind of thing is the result. However, I do not believe that all virtue or human feeling resides in this House and I know my former colleague from this House, Deputy Batt...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: Shut up for a minute.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I listened to Senator Ormonde-----
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: It was not a bit out of order. I am fed up with this kind of thing. We have a short amount of time and there are real issues here. I am not attacking the other side, but-----
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: -----I do not appreciate this attempt to waste time.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I will leave it to the Cathaoirleach, but it is not a bit unparliamentary.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I meant it and they should because that kind of behaviour disgraces them.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: It would not bother me in the slightest. I have had a lot worse said to me, I can assure the Cathaoirleach. I am not so thin skinned. I acknowledge the fact that people on the Government side of the House are raw because there is pressure. This is a difficult time, difficult decisions must be taken and so on, but I like the fact that Senator Ormonde stated she will not stand over a...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I want a bit of injury time because I was heckled by the Government side.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I will not. If she has any sense, she will keep talking past her time.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: The Cathaoirleach might face a series of challenges because this situation is ridiculous.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I will finish on this point.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: The Cathaoirleach is now interrupting me. I would like the time that I have been allocated democratically to speak on this issue. It is making a farce of the whole matter that we are all treated like this.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: That is fact coming from Senator Keaveney. I will let Senator Prendergast in because I am sure she will make a compelling case. I am also sure she will get her full allocation of time.
- Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State and applaud this decision. Partial though it is, it is an improvement. We are starting from a low base. The Minister of State in his speech rehearsed criticism from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. When reporting on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1998, it stated that our approach to children's rights seemed to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: If there was a proper ordering of business and we had a reasonable amount of time for this part of the business, this would not happen. I am disgusted by it. I would not care if we had two hours on the Order of Business. It is the only part that is ever covered anywhere.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: We ought to play to our strengths. This is a nonsense and is intolerable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: You need to be spoken to and well spoken to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: This House is being increasingly treated with contempt and a classic example was last night when I raised a very significant matter about the economy of the country and serious violations and infringements of liquidity regulations in a consistent, deliberate and repeated manner. The answer I received from the Minister of State was that there was no ministerial responsibility. If there is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
David Norris: Sorry Cathaoirleach but I will continue-----