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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I am afraid I would not feel in a position to accept his divine intervention.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I did that entirely unaided by the Pope.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I intended to raise a couple of issues yesterday, but I was not fortunate enough to get in. My colleague, Senator O'Toole, managed to raise a number of them successfully. I refer in particular to the question of the rehabilitation by the Vatican of Bishop Williamson. I was interested in the contribution of a certain little interchange here.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I do not engage in personal abuse. That is a very interesting comment because Senator Mullen's contribution yesterday included his usual mantra of appealing for calm and rational debate without personality-based or ad hominem arguments. He then proceeded to imply that Senator O'Toole was a clown and that I was ignorant, which may well be true.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I cannot answer for Senator O'Toole.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I am prepared to accept my ignorance as one of the great national resources of Ireland. Ignorant as I am, I heard Bishop Williamson on the radio saying there were certainly not 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He claimed that the correct figure might be 200,000. He does not believe there were any gas chambers in Auschwitz. He has said that not a single person, Jewish or...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: It cannot be allowed to stand without rebuke. It is quite appropriate to challenge such views. The Holocaust was a uniquely catastrophic event in human history. While the overwhelming preponderance of victims were Jewish, they were not exclusively Jewish. This extraordinary and tragic event is part of our universal inheritance of suffering as human beings. It is inappropriate for it to...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: My constituent objected to the document on the basis that she had not paid for it and did not want it included with her telephone bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: She did not agree with Deputy Ahern, although that is nothing to do with me.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: She said it was not appropriate for the first shot in his campaign for the park to be included with her telephone bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I am rather inclined to agree with her.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Scandalous stuff, well done, congratulations.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Cardinal Kasper certainly seemed pretty anxious about it, and he ought to know. He is a German and he is a cardinal.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Why do we have an ambassador at all?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: How very Christian of you, Monsignor.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Senator McFadden never interrupts anybody else.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: That is excellent. They have joined the socialists with Deputy Bertie Ahern. I was also interested to note that this motion was taken by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Of the two principal Departments dealing with this area, the Department of Foreign Affairs has the better record. I am not surprised the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform flunked it, which...