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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: This is a great tune. It is a pity the Leader cannot accompany it on the saxophone.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Will we get a look at Peewee's big idea?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: On a point of order, this is confusing. Yesterday, Senator Cassidy referred to his constituency colleague, but we are all his constituency colleagues. The Leader's constituency comprises the county councillors and it is the same for Senator McFadden. They have no geographical constituency whatever.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: OECD and IMF Reports: Statements (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: I wish to share time equally with Senator Quinn.

Seanad: OECD and IMF Reports: Statements (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Perhaps you might indicate when that barrier has been reached so that I can break it. This is not a tsunami and is not an inevitable naturally occurring phenomenon. It is man-made and there must be a way out of it. It is a mirror image of the 1929 crash, of which people of my generation heard but have not experienced, and that is worrying as we are back in the same situation. However,...

Seanad: OECD and IMF Reports: Statements (10 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Yes, there is. The other side is spinning it furiously in the opposite direction. I am not interested in that but I am interested in one fact, that in none of the contributions so far, by the Minister of State, Government speakers or Opposition speakers, has there been any mention of the moral parameters which led to this crisis. This has been instigated by greed, folly, gambling,...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: It is a clear conflict of interest.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: The company cannot be blamed, but the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: I join colleagues in asking for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to discuss the pharmacy issue. I am once again in receipt of very detailed e-mails quoting facts and figures from pharmacies, principally small pharmacies throughout the country. I have no sympathy for the international chains. The Minister is partly responsible, through legislation, for introducing a...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: She is on her holidays, give her a break.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: It is not much use to anybody when one cannot table amendments.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Did the Leader mention if we are to have a sos today?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Will there be a sos?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Thank you.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: I support these amendments because it is important that there should be a review and if there is no timescale, it could go into limbo. In light of the considerable debate, particularly when the Bill was before the House in its previous incarnation and a number of us on both sides tried to sabotage elements of it because we were concerned about the effect its operation would have on libel law...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: It is a mixed bag and I welcome some of the amendments. Amendment No. 18, as the Minister said, is intended to facilitate an early apology, because apologies are more effective the closer they are to the commission of the offence by publication. However, the Minister knows well I am not a fan of the defence of fair and reasonable publication. Much material appears in the press which is...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: The Minister, above all, should know that one cannot believe what one reads in the papers.