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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The dear Senator has an inferiority complex.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

David Norris: He is in no danger.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I join my colleagues in expressing real concern and horror at last night's programme. A Member of this House, Senator O'Toole, played a dignified role in that programme and told it as it is. We must listen to him as a former General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation. I raised this matter yesterday. It seems extraordinary that the Government picks up the bills. So many...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for concentrating and focusing my attention in his usual way. I am most definitely looking for a debate and those are my reasons.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

David Norris: A bloody good thing too.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Why is the Senator in favour of it?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I would like to raise the rather extraordinary and Kafkaesque situation whereby people who were abused in schools are being denied compensation on the basis that the State is not responsible for primary schools. It is quite extraordinary.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I raised in the House previously the case of Ms Louise O'Keeffe, who appears to feel threatened that her house might be taken from her because she cannot meet the costs arising from a legal action she took. There appears to be an instinct on the part of the authorities to punish and frighten people to discourage them from taking legal actions. It is quite wrong. By trying to deny its...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I welcome this motion. The original Labour Party motion was one in Irish about the education system and I thought to myself "What fools". They have missed the obvious issue which is climate change. I had decided to table a motion and I got my colleague, Senator O'Toole, to second it. However, the issue is what is important rather than the personalities involved. I congratulate the Labour...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I could not cycle. I flew, thus adding to my carbon footprint. However, the Norwegian ambassador was extremely helpful in making the arrangements and I saw the impact of climate change on the glaciers. All Members are aware that lumps have been falling off the Matterhorn and villages are threatened by the collapse, not simply of the ice formations, but also of the rock formations behind...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: He told me that washing machines last for only five years, after which they are expected to conk out. I saw a programme recently in which it was stated that television sets provide good value for only approximately two years. I have sets going back to the 1960s, including a black and white 12-inch set in the kitchen, which still adequately receives the RTE television news while I am washing...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Since I sat the leaving certificate examination, the population of this planet has doubled and this cannot go on. However, I look in vain for a single political or religious leader who relates to this obvious fact. I have no patience for those who bemoan the decline in population in countries such as Italy and France. As we live in a global environment, I am delighted to hear of such declines.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Our ecological footprint is far worse than that of those living in the deprived parts of the world. I do not say this for myself as I am growing old, have no offspring and am unlikely to ever have. However, despite the depredations of mankind, there is a strong likelihood that this old planet will last my time. However, unless we change our attitudes, there is every chance that other...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Exactly.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Of course they did.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Hang on.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I am receiving a terrible walloping here. I lost both legs and only got €100,000 for each, I was libelled and what is the Minister doing to me now?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I did not.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I am a little tempted to say I would not trust one of those old judges as far as I could spit them. If one looked sideways at one of them they would blow the head off a person, as we know since last week. I will restrain myself from such utterances. The Tánaiste is very open and clear when he states that the newspapers were lobbying for this. I am not a bit surprised.