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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2008)

David Norris: None of them has any experience.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2008)

David Norris: What is the Senator's income?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2008)

David Norris: What are the Senator's travel allowances?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2008)

David Norris: And the same to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: I welcome the fact that the Government is taking initiative. It has got at least one element right, and that is research and development. It should be kept here. I have spoken in this House on several occasions over the years about situations where brilliant, innovative and imaginative work done by Irish people was repatriated to the United States along with the profits of that work. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: If we had stayed out of it and kept our fish stocks, we would be in a better position than we are now. We should remind our European colleagues of that. France, Portugal and Spain have consistently devastated their own stocks before setting off to pillage those of others. Many years ago, I offered support to the Canadians in their dispute with European fishermen who had gone as far as the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Will the Leader respond to the series of questions I asked of him in recent days? The first relates to the situation of Ms Pamela Izevbekhai. I honour Senators Leyden and Ó Murchú for their strong support on this issue. I would be pleased to withdraw my motion in favour of an all-party proposal, which would be preferable. Like Senator Leyden, I have been the subject of anonymous...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Good man.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Chairman of the Arts Council is significantly worse.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: He could be a county councillor.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

David Norris: There was a fair amount of illogical emotionality from the Senator's side too.

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: I have been briefed on this issue by a constituent and I rely on the brief to establish the facts. It is about a residential facility in County Carlow, a part of Ireland known to the Minister of State and me. It is a 30-bed HSE residential care facility that looks after elderly people in the Carlow area, with ages ranging from 70 to 97. They are elderly people and, to a certain extent,...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for addressing the situation. I accept that she is not personally responsible for the inadequacy of her reply. She might not be in a position to agree with me, on the record, that it is inadequate. The reply she read made it clear that the HSE has not made a decision to close the facility. However, the HSE has not made a decision to keep it open either. The...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: Yes. I also asked the Minister of State to find out who wrote the report and when it will be published.

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State. She is very good. I appreciate that very much.

Seanad: Foster Care: Motion (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: I do not mean to rudely interrupt the Minister of State but I wonder whether copies of his speech will be made available.

Seanad: Foster Care: Motion (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: That is why I am asking.

Seanad: Foster Care: Motion (17 Dec 2008)

David Norris: The Minister of State is very kind. I do not mean to be obstructive. I just thought he had them and I did not receive one.