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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I merely put a question.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Last year, the same people said there was nothing wrong with the economy.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: We need a commitment on the European Defence Agency.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: That was a question.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: That is bang on.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: The Senator should have tried blowing into them.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Is that Fine Gael policy?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I greatly fear that Senator Alex White might be correct in his perception that this House is becoming increasingly irrelevant. That could explain why, once again, less that one third of the Members are present for the Order of Business, as has been the case over the past two weeks. I welcome the indictment of the President of Sudan on war crimes charges. His response was to exclude a number...

Seanad: Local Economic Initiatives: Motion (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I thank Senator Twomey for so generously sharing time. I cannot understand why the Government could not accept the amendment tabled by Senator O'Toole. Apart from any other consideration, the Senator possesses quite an amount of knowledge in respect of this matter because he is a founder member of a credit union. He has placed before the House certain clear facts which are apparently...

Seanad: Local Economic Initiatives: Motion (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Exactly. How can the Minister of State assert that their is no problem as regards liquidity? It simply does not make sense. I am not stating that the Minister of State is inimical to the truth or even that he is lying, which would be a frightful thing to say. However, I am stating that he has been ill advised and that the material he has placed on the record of the House should be...

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Whose milk?

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I welcome the fact that my colleague, Senator Bacik, referred to the case of Mrs. Gill. I do not believe she would object to her name being used in this debate. Mrs. Gill is from a farm outside Birr in County Offaly in the heart of Ireland. Her daughter was killed in a road traffic accident. She desperately wanted her daughter's same-sex partner to be recognised but that was not possible....

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: Yes, he did.

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I am also happy to do so. The conversation referred to a nasty piece in a tabloid newspaper which suggested I was promoting sex with children. That is sinister thought control which can be denied as no one can say one way or the other whether the conversation took place because, unfortunately, the microphone may not have picked it up.

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: I do not propose to press the amendment or say any more about it. I do not speak on this issue very often because I have done so in the past. Like everywhere else, 90% of the people in the constituency I represent are not homosexual. While it is important to consider many other issues, as I have consistently done, there are circumstances when it is necessary to discuss this issue. If we...

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

David Norris: The Senator said it.