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Seanad: Educational Services: Motion. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senator Quinn.

Seanad: Educational Services: Motion. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House. I take it as given that we all appreciate the fact that she is a highly competent, intelligent, sensitive and good Minister. I am not partisan on this nor am I am as surprisingly politically naive as my friend and colleague, Senator Ross, if he imagines for one minute that the Government will accept a motion that refers to regretting the Government's...

Seanad: Educational Services: Motion. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: They are only words. However, I have managed this trick in the past but always when there was some degree of accommodation between the two elements. That is a good move but I do not see any realistic possibility of it in this case. Although Senator O'Toole has good relations, by and large, with the Department of Education and Science and the Minister, he is right to be critical because we...

Seanad: Educational Services: Motion. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: In that case I shall sit down and let my colleague speak.

Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: The Senator will get them anyway.

Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: They are all over the country.

Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House and will make some statements with which he will not agree, but he is a lively debater.

Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Perhaps we can reach some accommodation. I agreed with much of what Senator Ormonde said about the lack of accountability, openness and transparency in planning. I do not need to rub people's faces in it but Members of both Houses are under a serious cloud because of the appalling corruption prevalent throughout local authorities in this land. That is an outrageous situation and one which...

Seanad: Planning and Related Issues: Statements (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Goodness, Minister, I always knew you were a man of extraordinary intelligence but I did not realise this extended to extrasensory perception.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I speak from a position of greater strength as I am sitting in the Fianna Fáil seats.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It is supposed to be.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: The Minister cut back the budget and was then obliged to reinstate it after protests.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: The Minister changes the prices on the menu, even if the menu itself does not change.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Has one ever known a licence to be refused?

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I support my colleagues who have called for a further discussion on the tragic Stardust situation and I also support their compliments to RTE. I did not see the entire programme but I saw some of it. From what I saw, it seemed to me that they were talking not so much about new evidence but a new interpretation of evidence and the unearthing of the fact that certain evidence was missing at the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Will the Leader arrange to have the new Minister of State attend the House to explain the policy on the fisheries Bill, particularly in light of a letter in The Irish Times of 9 February?

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I want the new Minister of State to attend the House as soon as possible and I wish to give the reason. The previous Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, contradicted things I said and gave assurances they were not so, yet these very things are included in a letter by Dr. T.K.Whitaker to The Irish Times. If my opinion is not respected, at least his will be. The letter stated that the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I am just giving reasons I think it is important for the new Minister of State to attend the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: His predecessor made a statement that is not sustainable in light of the argument made by Dr. Whitaker.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I agree with my colleague, Senator O'Toole, about the importance of having a debate on the anniversary of the 1916 Rising. I also ask for such a debate so that we can discover the Government's plans for its commemoration. I have been contacted by a constituent who asked about the proposed budget to cover this military display and other celebrations of 1916. Can the Leader discover that...