Results 16,501-16,520 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: We are his equals.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is where privatisation leads.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: And pens.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is not exactly a free bar, is it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I welcome the fact that the motion on Ingrid Betancourt would be passed unanimously and I congratulate those who have persisted in pushing this matter. I gather the motion is in the name of all of us. It is a matter I raised some years ago, but others have brought it to this successful conclusion and I congratulate and compliment them. In the light of this agreement and the easy passage of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)
David Norris: This should have an easy passage because yesterday at the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs this was tabled in the names of Deputy M. Higgins and myself and it was passed unanimously. It is an important matter on which Ireland should take a stance. We will be holding a conference on this subject in Ireland and in advance of this conference it would be useful if we passed this motion and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: There is a certain level of hypocrisy abroad today. Senator Mary White for example will not advance her avowed aim of helping to consolidate the peace process by describing Northern Ireland as a colony. It would be interesting to see what would happen if interest rates were reduced in the North of Ireland and we lost investment here when international business investment travelled North....
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I am glad that Senator Frances Fitzgerald has proposed to oppose the Order of Business. If we are serious about ethics we must make sure that everything is done in a proper, transparent, above board manner. The message of this manoeuvre is that we can bend the rules and fudge things. It is astonishing that this should happen in the very body that is supposed to supervise standards in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)
David Norris: It is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The Senator is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson and not the Seanad spokesperson.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I thank Senator Frances Fitzgerald for her gracious words and confirm this will be a continuing archive. I quoted John Donne to the unfortunate librarian yesterday, "When thou has done, thou has not done for I have more" and there will be more. I will put down the domestic partnership civil registration Bill for Private Members' time early in the new year which I hope will give us an...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Newstalk.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: There is no chance of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.