Results 17,501-17,520 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Even more important than the Senator.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I understand that as the proposer of the amendment I have the right to make a brief reply. I thank the Minister of State for his reply which was gracious and generous, unlike that of the first spokesperson for the Government whose contribution reflected the usual snotty dog in the manger Government attitude.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: On the other hand, it was refreshing to be patronised by my old friend Senator Mooney. It took me back to the old days and I felt that I was really at home. I shall explain myself and why I did this. I was not in the House at the time as I was chairing a symposium in Trinity. The Senator on the other side of the House knows only too well that one goes where the voters are.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: There are not that many voters here. There are one or two but their votes are already sewn up. I went where my voters were.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I was perfectly right. We are going to save a planet so that the Senator's old airwaves can go whizzing through it.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: To be a little bit more serious, I say this because I show respect for this House. I originally tabled an amendment, which did not get on to the yellow list of amendments but appeared on the white list that came out during the holidays, simply because I spotted that provision was not made for sound broadcasting. I accept absolutely that I am not technically proficient and I received...
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I thought the Senator was sulking because I deprecated his trade. After all we are in the duke's ballroom so we will not have any trade here.
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: He is involved in the profession. I tabled that amendment. I note that while a large number of stations use the DAB system, the Swedish Minister for Culture recently turned down a proposed extension of this system in Swedish radio. The Seanad has done a good job in opening up this area of radio broadcasting. We collectively as Members of the Seanad should say we did a good job, we took on...
- Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: No it is being graciously and well-temperedly withdrawn.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: It is also cheap, costing only â¬250,000 a year. The college is acting in a penny-pinching matter by closing it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I ask for a debate on the Middle East, specifically the deteriorating situation in Iraq. Yesterday, 85 people were tragically killed as they tried to buy foodstuffs in a market. Queues of unemployed men are being bombed in a sectarian civil war. Mr. Nuri al-Maliki was practically blown up by the reverberations from a bomb while appealing for peace at a press conference. It is a disaster....
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am seeking a debate on the whole situation. In that debate I will point out that this stunt was tried by the discredited President George W. Bush when he went for the Dixie Chicks, but they got five Grammys.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I also agree with my colleagues on this side of the House about the appointment to the Rail Procurement Agency. We have not been well served in this instance. In appointing a national procurer, we should be entitled to a broader consideration of the available talent. Why go for the obvious financial bozos who seem to be slick in this area rather than somebody like Mr. Cormac Rabbitte, who...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I applaud them but that is not the issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am very glad to evoke silent life from a political corpse.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: They are destroying the rainforest to do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)
David Norris: And votes.