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Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Senator Ross's comment was for me and I have answered it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Allow Senator Ross to speak without interruption.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: It was enough.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I am concerned at what the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has said about discussions taking place with the Attorney General. One accepts there are cases where genuine mistakes are made and so on, but there is a requirement on the officials to be careful. A lackadaisical approach is unacceptable. This relates to serious principles of law and it gives me great pleasure to open a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: How did the Minister know that?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The Minister is having me watched.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Have we have moved on to my amendment?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I see. The Minister's anticipation was so effective that everyone has been talking about it.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 12: In page 27, paragraph (b), to delete lines 1 to 3. The two principal provisions in section 14 relate to the reclassification of saliva and other materials as non-intimate samples, thereby allowing the Garda to take these samples without consent. Then there is provision for extending the time during which the samples may be kept from six to 12 months. The Minister has...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: What about the CIA?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: The CIA is already looking at our bank accounts. Perhaps it will also look at DNA samples as well.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: What about people from whom DNA samples are taken without their consent? The Minister should talk to his friends, Joe and Josephine Soap. They will tell him.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)

David Norris: Was it good old King Edward?

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I ask the House's permission to share time with Senator O'Toole.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House. I am relieved he chose not to make his speech in Irish, as I understand he did in the other House. I am not sure he spoke in Irish because of his love of the language or from a desire to wrong-foot his opponents. He certainly gave a bravura performance, as is to be expected from him. It is important that time is set aside in this House to review this Bill....

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I am glad to hear that. The Minister's decision was presumably the result of amendments in the other House, which demonstrates that he is taking advice on board. I was concerned that recourse to the courts would not be required. I strongly support the Minister on the issue of protecting firemen — I do not know if any firewomen are employed — and ambulance staff.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Although attacks on the fire services are a new phenomenon, they happen regularly. Members of the fire and ambulance services are being savagely attacked. Mark Hogan, a fireman in his 20s with the Dublin Fire Brigade, was head butted on Aston Quay and a series of attacks took place in Cork, including one in which a crew member was hit on the headwith a bottle. The chairman of the National...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The idea of meetings between the family and gardaí and drawing up a good behaviour contract is an excellent, constructive idea. Involving families is the way forward. A thoughtful speech by Deputy Carey in the Dáil, which I read with real interest, considered the increase in custodial sentences. This has increased from 10% to 20% and, if certain cases are included, 30%. There are some...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Like my colleagues, I welcome the decision of the United States Supreme Court. I was at a lecture by a distinguished member of the Australian Supreme Court in the Incorporated Law Society when the announcement was made and it brought a round of strong applause from many distinguished judges, barristers, solicitors and legal authorities. It is tragic that we are surprised and overjoyed by this...