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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: There is a nice seat for the Senator over here.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I have considered it considerably.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: She has never felt Senator Ryan's lash.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Gaeilge, má's é do thoil é.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I also pay tribute to the Leas-Chathaoirleach for the civilised and courteous way in which he has dealt with matters while occupying the Chair. I have already paid fulsome tribute to my other colleagues, including Senator Henry, and I do not propose to continue on that line because people might think I was fishing in her newly released shoal of votes. It is something I would never dream of...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2007)

David Norris: He helped to launch the war and is a proven liar.

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: We cannot understand what he says so it is perfectly easy for him to do it.

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I commend my distinguished colleague on the Government benches on his brilliant rendition of the explanatory memorandum of the Bill. I hope he is a member of Irish Actors Equity because it was a superb performance. Senator Hanafin knew just where to draw the line. He did not treat us to the table of the existing thresholds. I thought for one wonderful moment he might but he did not...

Seanad: Ethics In Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: The bits he read out were quite exciting but were not, as my friend and colleague, Senator Quinn, pointed out to me, up to the standard of his original intervention which had a certain kind of punch. All that old rubbish about things written in sand and chiselled in stone and that we must turn a blind eye to people's faults because they were in the past is not ethics. As I said on the Order...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: It is a pleasure to have the Minister in the House because he is as always intellectually vigorous and robust although he may be a trifle partisan. It was lovely to hear him making minced meat out of the principal Opposition party but he did it in a selective way——

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: I am speaking directly to the recommendation. I am conscious of the strict discipline, the Cathaoirleach's firm lash, under which I operate. As Senator O'Toole said, it was not just the principal Opposition party which created the confusion. Mr. McDowell added to this and the Minister's party is not entirely guiltless in this respect. In his Budget Statement the Minister stated, "In the...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2007)

David Norris: But this is what the Minister is now proposing.