Results 15,401-15,420 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: It has not been agreed.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: When was the Bill challenged?
- Seanad: Pharmaceutical Sector. (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: This matter relates to the registration fee being imposed on the pharmaceutical sector. Three elements in the new regulation cause concern. The first is the extraordinarily high level at which the fee is being set. The second is the bureaucracy and duplication involved, which is wasteful, especially in the registration process itself. The third is the concern about what the Pharmaceutical...
- Seanad: Pharmaceutical Sector. (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. There is a clear conflict of evidence between what the Minister of State and I, as advised, put on the record regarding the sums involved in this jurisdiction and in Great Britain. With regard to PricewaterhouseCoopers, it did not exactly help us when we were tumbling into the financial abyss. It is a classic practice to commission reports all...
- Seanad: Pharmaceutical Sector. (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: There is no great record of people being poisoned and given all kinds of inappropriate drugs and, therefore, I do not know what the hysteria is about. I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister and welcome the introduction of this Bill. It is important the Seanad plays its role in introducing legislation. When I introduced a Bill some four years ago, that was very unusual, but we have had a flurry of Bills introduced in the House and this shows political energy. While I compliment Senator Regan on introducing the Bill, the Minister was persuasive when he...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: On a point of information, from my extensive arboricultural and horticultural experience, I had a lemon tree in Cyprus that was rotten. My vine is rotten also, but they both produced fruit.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: Of course it is; that is the point.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I move amendment No. 22: In page 18, line 18, after "site." to insert the following: "Where there are moneys due and owing by a household to a housing authority under any of the provisions to which this section applies and the housing authority is satisfied that the household would otherwise suffer undue hardship if social housing support was withheld, the housing authority may provide such...
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: Yes, and I would like to explain why. I understand I am entitled to speak once more after the Minister of State has spoken.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I fail to understand that. I thought the proposer of an amendment could comment on the Minister's reply.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: The amendment is being pressed. The Minister of State indicated that he is considering amendment No. 21. Given its simplicity, I fail to understand why he could not have used the time available to him to bring a Government amendment in this regard. That is one of the reasons I am pressing amendment No. 22. It is not clear to me that the waiving of rent will be operable for the tenant...
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I second the amendment for the same reasons.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I second the amendment for the reasons stated by the Senator and because of the arguments I made at an earlier stage of the Bill. There is no point in rehearsing them at this stage.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I support Senator Bacik's amendment for the reasons she stated. I also emphasise the point that we are moving into pretty turbulent times. Three years is a long way down the road, if the assessments are to be tri-annual. People may well be under considerable pressure because of the changing economic climate. As we know, alas too well, the economic circumstances are changing rapidly.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I second this important amendment. On an earlier Stage, I made a point in support of Senator Bacik concerning those people who have been in hostel accommodation and so on for six months or longer and their families, who must go on to the streets. The Minister of State indicated with a nod that he understood the problem. On Second Stage, he also indicated his clear intention that people...
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear. Show me the way to go home.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I received a courteous note from the Cathaoirleach indicating that this amendment would be ruled out of order because it could create a potential charge on the Exchequer. Will he or the Minister of State indicate what might be the nature of that charge? I have considered the amendment, which does not refer to money, wages etc., and I cannot identify any charge to which it might give rise....
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: In that context, the act of breathing could give rise to a potential charge on the Exchequer.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2008)
David Norris: I would like to ask the Minister of State about this when he comes back into the House.