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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I move: "That the Bill be withdrawn", for the reasons I have stated. I have done everything possible to have it taken. I pay tribute to other Members of the House, on all sides, who spoke in a very humane way on this matter which is significant and confronts this House. On my desk I have two piles of cases involving persons in this situation caught in an agonised fashion and for the past...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I indicated also that there will be a meeting at the end of this week of people who are launching a campaign for full civil marriage. I feel I am entitled——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I thought you said I had an opportunity to propose this.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: You misled me then. I am sure you had a good intention.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: We often hear bad news on the Order of Business. We should, however, recognise that internationally there is some very good news. The electoral success of Mr. Barack Obama in the United States suggests that great country may at last be finding its conscience and moving away from the criminal enterprises of Mr. Bush. I hope Guantanamo Bay will not be closed, but cleansed of the present...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: No, I do not want it taken at all. I am signalling that I am going to remove it from the Order Paper because it is a waste of time.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: In that case I shall move an amendment to remove this Bill from the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

David Norris: To clarify a point of order, how is a matter sub judice if it is not before the courts? As I understand it, the matter is in the tribunal at present.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: We will hear it on the nine o'clock news.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: We do not. We are with Senator Barack Obama.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: That is not a sport. It is a bloody practice and should be stopped.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: It is ignorant bestiality and cruelty.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I sincerely hope it does not.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: I want to raise a matter related to the groceries order, which was abolished by this House. Today the Irish Farmers Association issued a statement that its members are being badly squeezed by predatory pricing by the large supermarkets. That is clear. It is related also to the Beverage Council of Ireland, which stated last week that the unloading of enormous quantities of drink by...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: It is all part of a situation where the Competition Authority is involved. We ought to have a look at the way the authority operates, in making a tin god out of competition. It has already inhibited the rights of the weakest elements in the acting profession. For example, those who do voiceovers who earn an average of €7,000 a year who are inhibited under threat of criminal sanctions by...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

David Norris: They are utter cowards. They seem to think that we have forgotten the shame they brought on us at the time of the Omagh bomb, and that this has evaporated. It has not. They are also traitors to this country, North and South, because they are doing it, apparently, in the context of a major investment conference in the North of Ireland. We should condemn them as cowards, as traitors and as...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

David Norris: On 19 February 2003, the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell, introduced the Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 to the House. It took more than a year for it to reach Committee Stage, which it did on 7 April 2004, by which time 150 amendments had been tabled, more than 90 of which were placed on the Order Paper by our former colleague Dr. Mary Henry. Not...

Seanad: Substance Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2008)

David Norris: Senator Quinn has kindly allowed me to speak first but I will only do so for two or three minutes. I have a dinner guest and Senator Quinn courteously allowed me not to keep him waiting any longer. I listened to the debate on the monitor in my office and I believe a certain amount of misinformation has been stated. We must honestly face the facts about drugs. I know a number of people who...