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Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Agricultural land prices in Ireland were depressed for 19 years.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I am glad to follow directly after my colleague and friend, Senator Bacik. This is precisely the issue that I wished to raise. I wish to ask the Leader two questions. Before the close of business, can he indicate when the Fines and Civil Partnership Bills will be introduced? Both matters were first raised by me in the House. Five years ago, I tabled the Civil Partnership Bill 2004. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Rubbish, I am certainly not available 24 hours a day at any time. That is a ridiculous thing to say. We have enough tripe from people who think we are available 24 hours a day. I damn well am not, nor will I be.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: On a point of order, I must remind the Leader that his Government sought and obtained a judgment against the British about sleep deprivation and defined it as a form of torture.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I support Senator Walsh as I take it he is calling for the debate we have been looking for on this side for a very long time on the Government's response to the Ryan report.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

David Norris: We should get down to it so I strongly support the Senator in this matter. Yesterday, in the debate on the Criminal Procedure Bill, I asked the Minister questions about the children's detention centre. I did not anticipate that the issue would explode today with the publication of a Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report into the centre for severely disturbed children in...

Seanad: Mortgage and Debt Support Measures: Motion (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State. I congratulate my colleagues in Fine Gael for tabling this very important motion. The Government needs to be thoughtful, as Senator MacSharry has been, in helping us to confront the very serious situation in which we find ourselves and not just dismiss it. One of the principle thrusts of the motion is the terrible situation regarding unemployment. I have...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: What Senator Bacik has just said illustrates the value of this House and the value we place upon the kind of professional expertise we have here. I say as much without prejudice, as they say in legal circles, to the argument. It is important to recognise that the amendment which occurs first in the order is not the really significant one. It is amendment No. 50 that comes toward the end of...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the spirit of these amendments because Senator Regan is attempting to secure the rights of victims. There is a strong public feeling that victims are not treated with the degree of sympathy they could be and that they do not have access to the redress they ought to have. There is a feeling that the balance may be slightly skewed. I am not sure whether that is true but certainly...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: In that case, it is covered and I will be happy to support Senator Regan's amendment because this is also very important.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I would avoid that topic if I were the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Shell has been found to have engaged in dangerous practices. The Garda has also been involved in attacks on civilians.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: The final report will be in the newspapers.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I return to a matter I raised yesterday, namely, the Corrib gas field. After I spoke yesterday, my colleague, Senator Hanafin, indicated he supported my call for a debate on the issue but argued that Shell to Sea was not correct and so forth. We also heard from another Senator on the Government benches that dangerous dissident elements were involved. The report of the planning board is...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: I am glad to receive confirmation of where Senator Walsh stands on women's rights, as well as gay rights.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: That was injury time.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)

David Norris: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Defence to come before the House to explain the reason the Irish Army has been ordering defence equipment from a company which manufactured equipment used in the Gaza war which has been the subject of a war crimes complaint?