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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: All Independent Senators produced legislation in recent years that puts this situation in perspective. This week, we have seen two squalid performances, the first by the leader of Fine Gael in the Dáil, Deputy Kenny. He unilaterally decided to sacrifice this House on the altar of his own public political ambition to expiate principally the sins of the other House. That was bad enough, but...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I am very concerned about-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I will not withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I will shout as much as I like.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I do not understand why my colleagues in the House are saying, "Hear, hear", when they want to abolish it. In the name of Jesus, let them stop taking the money now and get the hell out of here.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: It most certainly was a political charge and I will make a second one. This is not a game.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I have done so.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I doubt that I will take lessons from Senator Buttimer on that particular angle. The second matter that I would like to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

David Norris: When will the Leader give time to discuss in the House No. 31, motion 34 on the possible relocation of the Abbey Theatre? The Seanad played an important role in this. The idea was first floated here. It was enthusiastically supported by Senator Coghlan and, importantly, by the Leader of the House. Last weekend Senator Cassidy asked to see me and we had a discussion, and as a result of...

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Bacik.

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Barry Andrews, but I am sorry that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is not present. This is an interesting situation and one that I take on with some delicacy because I do not like to take on any sectarian matter about the Catholic ethos or Protestant ethos. There is, however, a...

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: That was my mother's old school.

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: Rot.

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: Now we know why the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, was ashamed to show his face-----

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: That is one of the most disgraceful responses I have ever heard. It is blatantly sectarian and a tissue of lies. I am beginning to wonder if there is not an agenda at certain levels within the Department among those who have the same view as Senator Bacik and I that sectarian education is not a good idea, who would like, by stealth and imposing their policy on a weak Minister, to extinguish...

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: -----and the total on a full SEC grant is 1,000. How can the Minister square these figures? More than half of the Protestant pupils attending are getting grants because they are poor. This is getting worse. The action of the Government has got rid of secretarial and maintenance grants. Any objective independent analysis will show that this is discriminatory and that as a result of the...

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I did not say that.

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: I have a final supplementary question for the Minister of State.

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: If it is not sectarian, why was the Orange Order dragged in as a red herring in his speech? What does the Orange Order have to do with anything?

Seanad: School Capitation Grants (8 Oct 2009)

David Norris: Perhaps it is a Masonic order.