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- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: The bogs of Ireland have diminished significantly in my lifetime. I would hate to see them subjected to further unnecessary depredation. I agree my colleagues. I think it was Senator Warfield who stated this amendment needs to be further spelt out. I think perhaps it might actually have been Senator Grace O'Sullivan.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I think all of us opposing the amendment agree that it is rather vague. I refer to phraseology such as "the community gains strategic infrastructure projects". There is already provision in section 18A(5) for the Minister to make an order to amend or revoke. I am not sure what this extra aspect involves. I would prefer to leave the Bill as it stands. I do not know if a vote will be...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Is it tarred?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: The Acting Chairman is very pernickety today.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I do not talk through the Chair, I talk through my hat.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It was 1967.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: There is nothing to stop anybody tarmacing the Clifden road.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: What did the Senator find?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I never said that. I most certainly have. I drove through it in a Triumph TR7 on a tarred road.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Will the Minister of State include Senators Grace O'Sullivan and Higgins in those discussions?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: Very good. I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: May I ask a technical question? If I had objected to the amendment being withdrawn, what would have happened? I do not want to; I am just curious.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I would have been on my own but there would have been a vote.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I see. I thank the Senator very much.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: The amendment proposes to delete "(b) cause".
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I agree with Senator Higgins on the placing of the advertisement. It is not enough to put such an advertisement in the local newspaper only. I am a big fan of local newspapers. I was at the Laois Association lunch with the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, on Sunday and I was delighted to hear that the Leinster Expressis still going. Local newspapers are very important. That association lunch...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I thank the Acting Chairman but that is the end of it. If I am entertaining him, I have to stop.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: It might not always work.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: The wireless?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
David Norris: I doubt that we will get a definition of community that includes plants.