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- Seanad: European Union Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I have confirmed with the Minister of State that sexual orientation is in the charter. I apologise for the interruption.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----to a committee of the Oireachtas that in such circumstances there had been no prosecutions and that there would be no prosecutions. That is the reason I call it the Romeo and Juliet syndrome. The matter must be investigated because this issue was discussed in the House and I warned this might happen. I wish to raise the sentencing yesterday in an Israeli court of Ezra Nawi, an Israeli...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: He is sentenced to one month in prison but if he takes part in any protest in the next three years, peaceful or otherwise, he will immediately go to jail for six months.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: That tells the story of democracy in Israel today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I did not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I do not wish to interrupt but I must say the record will show that I have been misquoted. I hope it is not deliberate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: What about the question of subsidising the farmers?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: We missed the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: If that was an explosion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: It took the leader of Fine Gael four and a half hours to extract a weak vote of support at an unusual meeting of his party members yesterday. Apparently, however, he was supported uncritically and enthusiastically by the leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad, Senator Fitzgerald, as well as Senators Twomey and Donohoe. As two of these Members have served previously in the other House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----and the other one wants to get into it, they are not really determined to be in this House. In the circumstances, as this proposal was made in the context of an economy measure, is it appropriate that they should continue to serve in this House? Should they honourably surrender their salaries to all the projects they suggested were being cut back because of the existence of this House?...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: The case is finished.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: The man has been sentenced-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----and the case has been commented upon in The Irish Times in a clear way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
David Norris: I wish to raise the fact that the Director of Public Prosecutions gave evidence-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: -----mention is also a squalid performance. Senator Bacik is correct about the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. In concert with the Senator I raised the question of discrimination against Protestant schools. I hated doing so because I do not like to see any such denominational issue, on which we both agree. The Minister of State was sent here to produce a tissue...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Now, 40 years late, they have discovered it is unconstitutional. How incredible is that? Why was it not put before the House two weeks' ago when we raised the matter? Thank God for decent, gallant people like Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin who has rode in to try to protect the reputation of the country and its education system when it is being sullied by the squalid dishonesty we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Why they cannot allow the Senator's party to abolish the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Off the top of his head.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
David Norris: Maybe the Senator will vet them as well.