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Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: We have been named and shamed in the Marty report as being in "category A". We have been asked to do something about this by the human rights section of the United Nations, the Irish Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International — I could go on and on. The practices to which I have referred are gross in the extreme and I would like to put them, as determined by the Marty report, on the...

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I am happy to accept that but what I was referring to were statements made to me by members of the Senator's party stating their position.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I apologise but I was asked a direct question.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I accept that. I have no problem with that.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I appreciate that and I hope that this concern will be general throughout the Seanad. It was not at the beginning of the debate.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: That is a link that should be cut.

Seanad: Use of Irish Airports: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Yes, but I have 50,000 constituents——

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I support Senator Maurice Hayes because the marching season is often fraught with tension, particularly for the minority community in Northern Ireland, and it shows maturity that they are talking to each other and that these contentious marches are being agreed. That is the way the community should go. Would the Leader request information from the Minister for Communications, Marine and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: And a good thing too.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The Senator's concerns are parochial, he does not care a damn about the health service.

Seanad: International Criminal Court Bill 2003: Second Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator Henry.

Seanad: International Criminal Court Bill 2003: Second Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I welcome this Bill and there seems to be a general welcome for it. We have been waiting for legislation of this kind since the Nuremburg trials of the 1940s to which no doubt many other speakers have referred. It is useful to remind ourselves of the expression of principle given when the Rome Statute was adopted. It reads: The States Parties to this Statute. . . Affirming that the most...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I wish to refer to something I said about RTE last week. I stated, with the support of other Members, that it had not covered debates in this House. Since then, I have been informed that while it had done so, it had changed the broadcasting time, which did not appear in the newspapers. It is important to withdraw that criticism. However, I wish to replace it with a different criticism, which...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: Members want a real national broadcaster and ought to support RTE in its provision of its traditional kind of distinguished coverage of the arts and other interests. I also wish to raise the issue of Guantanamo Bay, especially in the light of the suicides of three inmates. They were astonishingly described by an official — whose own title, namely, the person with responsibility for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

David Norris: If the Cathaoirleach had wished me to continue, I would have been happy to oblige.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2006: Second Stage. (8 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister and this important legislation. When I was young, owning a car was a luxury and there were not many around. Now we must face the problem caused by a great increase in road traffic, which is not exclusively an Irish problem. Neither are road fatalities just an Irish problem, as evidenced by a report published today highlighting the problem on an international scale. It...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jun 2006)

David Norris: What a pity he did not tell the truth.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jun 2006)

David Norris: I welcome what the Leader said about the adjournment of the Dáil last Friday which rendered our debate on an important matter less significant than it would otherwise have been. I pointed out at the time that by allowing the Dáil to adjourn, the constitutional position of this House was fundamentally undercut and eroded because we were established principally as a revising Chamber to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jun 2006)

David Norris: It happened yesterday and today also. We are constantly being chided by the media for the fact that these benches are not always full, even though they know we are in our offices, yet where are they when we want them? This is a very important matter and it did not receive the wide public dissemination it should have. I agree with Senator Brian Hayes about the Mater Hospital site for the new...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jun 2006)

David Norris: The news has been announced today of the death of al-Zarqawi in Iraq. Due to the fact that I criticise rendition flights, I am sometimes seen as being an enemy of the United States and of democracy but I do not gloat over the death of anyone. However, al-Zarqawi was a person who lived by the sword and now he has died by the sword. His intervention in Iraq was not welcomed by the Iraqi people...