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- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I agree with my colleagues, including Senator Hanafin, that we should have a discussion with the Minister for Transport. I am very concerned about the situation in Aer Lingus. The management there is obviously under pressure from Ryanair and one can understand its difficulties but it is trying to extract a written undertaking from workers that they will not strike. Is this September 1913...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I thank Senator Quinn for sharing time and I welcome the Minister of State. It is clear that a large preponderance of accidents involve many young people with alcohol taken driving on country roads in the early hours of the morning at weekends. If one applies a grid test, one will discover that it covers a significant number of these five or six elements. We must, therefore, examine these...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: How many constituencies does the Leader have?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: What about the clear and direct question I asked about the Defamation Bill? Can the Leader give me an answer to that question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: In reiterating the calls made by Senators yesterday for a debate on the health service, I would like to emphasise one aspect of it. Somebody must have been listening to what was said yesterday when a number of Senators, including myself, raised the question of hospital hygiene. It is worrying that, according to the report published yesterday, a large number of people die from...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Yes. It is very important that a debate be arranged to allow us to look at this situation. The point I made yesterday â that it is not acceptable that it can take a long time for spillages of human waste to be cleaned when contract cleaners are in hospitals for a limited number of hours â was emphasised again today on the radio. I direct the attention of the Members of the House to a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Yes, even better. Wonderful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Can I ask about the Defamation Bill 2006? When I raised this matter a week or two ago, the Leader agreed with me that it was not a good idea to reintroduce it on Committee Stage as 35 Senators â a majority of the Members of the House â had not had an opportunity to discuss it on Second Stage. He said my proposal was sensible. I see that sense has not yet broken out on the Order Paper...
- Seanad: Government's Irish Aid Strategy: Statements (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senator Mullen and Senator Bacik.
- Seanad: Government's Irish Aid Strategy: Statements (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I am being greedy in taking seven or eight minutes while the remaining time will be shared between the Senators. I think it is five or six minutes and three minutes. I know the Leas-Chathaoirleach will be his usual flexible self. I welcome the Minister of State, who is an old friend from the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs. I noticed that we were visited by a distinguished...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: He is not on strike. James Joyce is still active.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I support Senator Fitzgerald in her call for a debate on the health service and for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House. She took on a difficult position but serious questions have been raised. We should also debate the matter of balance on "The Late Late Show". If we allow this situation to continue we will allow censorship by default. If the Government refuses to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: On numerous occasions, I raised the question of hygiene, particularly in accident and emergency units where approximately 75% of cases over a weekend are caused by alcohol and people behave in an extremely unhygenic fashion. I ask the Minister for Health and Children come to the House to discuss the following ideological element. As a result of the notion of competition and capitalism in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I am precisely seeking a debate. I have the greatest of respect for the Garda, members of whom were at our demonstration and were as helpful, courteous and polite as they usually are. However, it is not appropriate they should be used in the west as the shock troops of a discredited multinational combine and it is not fair on them because it places them in an invidious position. I hope I am...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Thank you, Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Food Safety: Statements (8 Nov 2007)
David Norris: I am grateful to my colleague for sharing his time. I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to raise a small number of concerns. The first is the question of labelling which was raised by my colleague, Senator O'Toole, who is very interested in this area. I am concerned, as he is, because people, including shopkeepers, do not appear to appreciate the difference between "use by" and "best...
- Seanad: Food Safety: Statements (8 Nov 2007)
David Norris: This is an extraordinary takeover of our food resources and the Government would be right to resist it.