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- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I will get my pension next year.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: In my discussions with the four principal elements of the Make Room grouping, they were extremely positive about the Bill and about the Minister of State's attitude. There is no question of a dispute or anything like that. However, I could not help noticing that the Minister did not actually say they are happy with the definition of homelessness. In fact, he scrupulously avoided it....
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I strongly support Senator Fitzgerald's comments on the case of Ms Pamela Izevbekhai. Ireland has received a well-deserved slap in the face from the European Court of Human Rights on this matter. I have been a Member of this House as we have discussed immigration legislation over a long number of years. I do not believe this kind of circumstance was envisaged by any Member of the House. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Well said.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Senator Bacik raised precisely the point I wish to raise. I find it astonishing there is no definition of homelessness in this section. We are relying on previous and clearly inadequate definitions. I am glad this matter has been raised and I strongly support what Senator Bacik stated. I will table amendments and I will be happy to support amendments tabled by Senator Bacik. It is...
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2008)
David Norris: My friend and colleague, Senator Bacik, has pointed out to me that a definition is proposed by Senator Doherty in amendment No. 30 to section 20. The Minister of State will have a few minutes grace to review the situation this morning.
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and congratulate him on his recent happy news. It is only a few weeks since the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, introduced his first budget. The financial climate both nationally and internationally is bleak and one understands the necessity for cutbacks. Some of the measures outlined were insensitive, such as the removal of the...
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Huh. That is spelt "h-u-h" for the information of the parliamentary reporter.
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I am sorry a decent Minister of State has been entrusted with such a squalid and disgraceful reply, which is riddled with intellectual holes. The Minister of State said civil servants are accustomed to changes of role within an organisation. That is a most extraordinary insult to the professionalism and expertise of such people. I have never heard anything like it. Are they dumbbells that...
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I would be very grateful if the Minister of State would do so.
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I am pleased to hear the Minister will meet these organisations, but I do not accept the point with regard to the professionalism of people and moving them around, and neither do the bodies concerned. They know expertise is picked up in this way. That assertion does not work. It might have a small chance of working had we not seen in the case of the Equality Authority the way in which the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Can the Leader request the Minister for Transport to come to the House to explain the visa waiver scheme and his discussions with Mr. Michael Chertoff? According to this morning's edition of The Irish Times, he will be required to transmit information about Irish citizens, including fingerprints, information about their religious views, sexual orientation and so on. It did not say that this...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I support what Senator O'Toole said about the absence of serious business in the House. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. About one third of Members are present for the Order of Business. The numbers have been dwindling every day for the past two weeks, which shows that our membership feels we are increasingly irrelevant. There was a good debate last night on the CAB. It is very...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: It is far more sinister than that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Senator Regan is weakening our case by making that silly partisan point.