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Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

David Norris: The House has a tradition of supporting independent regulation of the professions such as the press, medical, Garda and so on. We should examine the legal profession, particularly in light of recent reports about difficulties clients have had extracting detailed accounts of their bills from solicitors. Mr. Justice Hardiman has criticised the behaviour of the profession in this instance and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

David Norris: More significantly, the Taxing Master then turned around and, without dealing with these questions, attacked the man for complacency, selfishness and for being blinded by his own interests.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Then the client said he could not see the work that had been done but that was because he received no breakdown. The reason I am calling for a debate on this is one could not have a greater illustration of the need for independent regulation of the legal profession.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

David Norris: The House should debate the need for an independent regulating system to adjudicate on the question of costs, given that the legal profession regularly refuses to give any breakdown whatever and the taxing system does not seem to work.

Seanad: Shot at Dawn Campaign: Statements. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: I wish to share time with Senator O'Toole and perhaps with Senator Ross, who may have an opportunity to join us. I welcome this discussion and express my admiration for the work done by Senators Mooney and Hayes. Until quite recently, I was not aware of the considerable body of work they have been doing through the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body, which is a very useful forum in which...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Good.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: I thank Senator Brian Hayes for raising No. 23 on the Order Paper regarding the child abuse victim from Cork. I am pleased that both Fine Gael and Labour Party Members signed the motion but, on the basis of my contacts with Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats Members, everybody feels the same way, whether they are at liberty immediately to put their names to the motion. The woman was a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: That information should be made known as widely as possible. Sometimes people are ashamed to take up such subsidies because they think they are getting something for nothing. They are not. We should encourage all elderly people with this difficulty to take what is their due in terms of allowances and fuel vouchers.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Fianna Fáil members are the vegetables on the plate.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Because there is an election coming. We all know.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: While I am pleased they have at last learned, it is a great pity that so many innocent civilians, including women and children, had to be slaughtered by these people. It is time they woke up. They are a disgrace to Europe, as are the provisional thugs. I would like to have a debate on the privatisation of Aer Lingus, which was discussed yesterday by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Yawn, yawn, yawn.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: We hear this rubbish about 700 years.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: That is what America is doing.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: They first put in the Taliban and then they put in President Karzai.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: The Senator is not consistent.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: The Senator does not apologise.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.