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Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: While this is not something that should hold us for a great length of time, I wonder whether the Minister has carried out research to find out if he has contributed a new word to the English language. I have never come across the word "subsea" before, although I have come across "subsoil". In any case, it is a bastardisation of two languages, English and Latin, and is neither one nor the...

Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: That might be misconstrued. While it is not worth wasting much time on, I am curious to know if this is a word or if it has been recently coined by the Minister, or what is the difficulty.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Out with him. Off with his head.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: The Senator should sit down and let me speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Mr. Michael O'Leary is a very flamboyant, brilliant businessman. If he can create jobs in Ireland, everybody will welcome them. However, it seems more likely that he wants to play with Aer Lingus's toys and apparently he is in a temper because he cannot do so. The hangar he wants, hangar No. 6, has been specially designed to take wide-bodied, transatlantic aircraft which Mr. O'Leary does...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Yes, I believe it is necessary. I was thinking, my dear Senator friend and colleague, of Albert Reynolds's little line that it was the little things that tripped one up. One could invert this and consider the whole question of proportionality and size, for example, the banks which are too big to fail and the little people who pay tax. With regard to Greece, Goldman Sachs, an enormous...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: Do shut up, for goodness sake.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I could be a lot more unparliamentary.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: On a final point — one must be delicate about these matters — the Irish bishops are in Rome to be reprimanded about the way in which sexual abuse was covered up and so on. The issue goes entirely to the top. How can they take any other lead?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: For example, the Pope ought to answer questions about Maciel Degollado and the Legionaries of Christ——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: ——the man who escaped from Mexico, was pursued by the police and given sanctuary in the Vatican. These are very serious issues.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I, therefore, ask for a debate on public morality.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

David Norris: The Senator should move to these benches where he would be made very welcome.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I call for an urgent debate on homelessness in Dublin. I raised this issue previously in the context of what I felt was a rather bureaucratic approach by the Homeless Agency on the collection, harvesting and retention of data on the homeless. It was rather insensitive. Now, the situation has become much worse because the Salvation Army in conjunction with Dublin City Council has announced...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

David Norris: The chaotic ones are the problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

David Norris: It is the chaotic people who are vulnerable.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (10 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I thank Senator Ross for kindly sharing time. I do not need to welcome the Minister of State as the Senator already did so. The Labour Party should have been allowed to call a division on the motion as it would have won it. That no Government Senator was present when the motion was moved created a rather awkward situation in such a serious debate. I remember winning a vote against the...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

David Norris: There is an argument that hunting is as humane as and as much in concert with the realities of life in the wild for it to occur as a culling mechanism. If it is a choice between the hunt, with its long traditions in the country and so long as it is at least humanely controlled, and the process of gassing, shooting or trapping foxes in a cull when they become regarded as vermin, it is better...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

David Norris: I imagine those involved in fox hunting are made of sterner stuff. All of us have received obnoxious material through the post. My distinguished colleague, Senator Cummins, read out a very unpleasant message and I certainly do not approve of such behaviour. The Animal Liberation Front is basically an English movement which has carried out some horrible and inexcusable terrorist escapades...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

David Norris: However, it is a marginal element in Irish society and I am not aware that it has done much, other than picketing Barnardo Furriers at the bottom of Grafton Street. I imagine the sort of pamphlet described by Senator Cummins would cause more concern among shop assistants than among the hardy members of the hunt fraternity, many of whom are well known to me. I assure Senators they would give...