Results 14,741-14,760 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)
David Norris: The Senator could fill out an application form. I will send it to him today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)
David Norris: I ask the Deputy Leader to provide for a debate on freedom of speech, particularly in light of the apparent proposals to introduce into law the offence of blasphemous libel. Unfortunately, I was in hospital and was not able to be in the House yesterday but I would have raised it had I been here. It is very important that we consider the issue. Certain forces abroad are trying to get this...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: It is a non-story.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: That is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: That is scaremongering.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Senator Buttimer.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear. They were handed away for nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Come off it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: A what? I did not hear that.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: You have no evidence linking them.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: I ask for a debate on the current difficulties that Dublin Bus is experiencing as a paradigm of the situation that exists now which can be very easily exploited by maverick elements. So many people are upset about the economy that it is easy to separate them from their legitimate union representatives. I deplore the fact that after six weeks' hard negotiations this has been frustrated in...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: However, there was more of Stalin than Lenin about that. Dracula is a very famous book written by a famous son of this city. He was a cousin of my great grandmother and I am glad to say I have entertained many members of his family here today, including D'Acre Stoker and previously his great grandson. The family has suggested that particularly since Romania has exploited this mercilessly...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Mr. D'Acre Stoker is writing a sequel to Dracula and film contracts have already been signed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)
David Norris: He is gathering his thoughts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)
David Norris: I join Senator Fitzgerald and others in calling for the debate on the establishment of a national assets management agency, which was scheduled for last night, to be taken today. I do so with some force because at the beginning of this parliamentary term, just after Christmas, I made an initial suggestion to establish what I described then, and the record will show this, as a national...
- Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)
David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Feargal Quinn.