Results 15,781-15,800 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I support Senator Frances Fitzgerald's call for a debate on the cutbacks in the Combat Poverty Agency and others. I have been raising this for the past three weeks. It is clear no savings will be made with these cuts. It is just an attempt to muzzle the voice of the disadvantaged and a very cynical action, as is the Government's decision to reopen the question of extraordinary rendition at...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: That is such a slavish and disgusting thing. I want to tell my good friends in the Green Party not to be bought off with this little sop from the Administration to allow them to close the door after the horses have bolted. A committee was established by this House to examine the issue which was then dissolved by the Government. Now, there is another one which contradicts what the then...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: The reports of his comments on RTE showed an arrogant, threatening and legalistic tone as the cardinal allied himself with Karl Rove, George Bush, Robert Mugabe and Ian Paisley.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I was one of the founders of the Southern Ireland Civil Rights Association which fought for the civil and human rights of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. It horrifies me that the leader of a church should seek to stamp his mark on such discrimination and inequality. I very much regret that I am forced to raise this issue. I thought we had put it behind us. I wanted us to get on to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: I will meet him in the National Stadium, the RDS or the National Concert Hall and debate this issue if he feels so strongly about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: You have spoken already, Monsignor Mullen.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Why does the Senator not acknowledge the mess the Government has made?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: The Senator should do so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: It is the afternoon.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: It is later than the Senator thinks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: No, the Combat Poverty Agency is being absorbed by the Department.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: That is welcome, and the Senator had a good position on it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Not McCain, for God's sake.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: We do not need any more crooks in the White House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: To destroy the embryos.