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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: The Palestinian people are Semites too.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: You should be the right one to know.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It is indeed.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Get your old digger out.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: So do the paramilitaries.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I support Senator Murnane O'Connor on the subject of property tax except that she does not go far enough. She should set as an objective getting rid of it altogether for the next election. I tell her the party that puts that down as a goal will form the next Government. This is a disgusting tax.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It dates back to the 19th century and is a form of rack-renting whereby unscrupulous landlords used to put up the rent every time an unfortunate tenant had the temerity to improve a property. That is exactly what is happening now. It relates to nothing other than the utter greed of the landlord, in this case the State. I give my own example. I bought a house-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: -----in an area of dereliction in inner city Dublin in 1978 for €25,000. It was in ruins. I did the State's job by restoring it. I spent hundreds of thousands of euro and hundreds of hours to restore the entire street. What is the reward? One is fined for doing it. It is a disgrace. It is back to the 19th century and the Leader should shut up and take notice of it. I raise also...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Do I hear somebody tweeting? A bird has got in. Put her out through the skylight. School secretaries are on €12,000 a year which is absolutely nothing but they love their job. They are an essential and crucial part of a school, organising timetables and payments. However, they are completely and utterly neglected. Bringing them into the public service would cost a maximum of...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: There are the butterflies.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I am opposed to this amendment. Before I am challenged, I come from generations of people from the heart of the bog. I used to spend my summer holidays on the bog and I loved it. I particularly enjoyed seeing the bog cotton and the little squishy watering holes in the bog. I can see the Minister of State smiling at my recollection and in recognition of the truth of what I am saying. To...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I apologise and I beg the Senator's pardon. I am very old, but not too old to run again for the Seanad. I was on the road from Galway to Clifden in 1967. I gave a big party in a big house in Connemara. It was wonderful. There was a tarred road then. I do not know what has happened to it now.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Is Senator Ó Céidigh stating that the road is not tarred now? Who did that? It was tarred in 1967.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: That is grand. I cherish Senator Ó Céidigh very much. He is a good friend of mine. On this occasion, however, when he spoke of the common good, he was actually referring to the parochial good. The common good extends, in the Constitution, to the entire population of the island and does not cover just one small area. There is terrible potential here for local politics to get...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I see.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Very good.