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Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Senator Henry is still here. I will swear her in as my deputy.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Defence Forces Property. (7 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It is a wonderful coincidence that the Minister of State present actually taught in a school as the head bottle washer. I am not sure if the Minister of State was in the Army. Perhaps he has some experience of the Army that would lend him to respond to this matter. Unfortunately, the Minister of State has indicated he does not.

Seanad: Defence Forces Property. (7 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Senator Minihan would be welcome to a minute of my time.

Seanad: Defence Forces Property. (7 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Senator Minihan would probably agree with me that armies, not just in Ireland but universally, have a horrible habit of being niggardly with ex-service people. After the First World War there were scandalous prospects of people who had been injured in that dreadful conflict playing the harmonica or begging for pennies on the street. I raised previously in this manner questions of Army...

Seanad: Defence Forces Property. (7 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for reading the script. I do not put the responsibility for this case at his door. However, I hope it goes back to the relevant authorities that this is a very legalistic performance. The script says that they were phasing out married quarters and these people were caught up in this, accidentally. I have no wish to cast aspersions on the forensic capacity of the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I agree with Senator Ó Murchú. It is a serious situation. This started in September and was a slow burning fuse. It would have been helpful if there had been a positive intervention, the type of dialogue Senator Ó Murchú mentioned, at an earlier stage. I doubt that the editor of the small provincial newspaper thought that a couple of lines of ink on a piece of paper would lead to...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I agree with the distribution of bouquets on which my colleagues have embarked but I would also give bouquets to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, for his determination in the matter, to Dr. Garret FitzGerald and to Mr. Albert Reynolds, who played a crucial significant role. I would also include even Mr. Blair, whose blundering bull in a china shop attitude towards Iraq...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I believe the situation is generally pretty hopeful but progress will be gradual. It is significant that DUP representatives regularly appear on our airwaves to discuss, in a way that is not notably hostile, serious political issues with Southern politicians. That is the way forward and I am glad to live in a time when such an historic shift is taking place.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Could the Cathaoirleach explain what I just heard? Was it a cuckoo?

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: What is wrong with revisionism?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: "Are you right there Michael, are you right?"

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Not at all instructive.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the remarks of Senators Brian Hayes and Mooney on the Shot at Dawn Campaign and congratulate them on raising it in the appropriate forum, namely, the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body meeting. They have done some extremely important work. I must take an assertiveness course, because I raised this issue first. I raised it consistently over——

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It does not matter. The most important thing is to get something done about it. As I have noted previously in the House, the New Zealand Government really put this issue on the agenda. It not only exonerated its own troops but honoured them publically. These poor creatures were slaughtered for reasons like refusing to put on a wet filthy cap in the middle of a bombardment. It was a disgrace...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Name and shame. The Senator should provide Members with the name.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

David Norris: This was a sly insinuation, as the Senator is perfectly aware.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Members should all stop squawking.

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

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

Seanad: Child Care Investment Programme: Motion. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Members have just witnessed a fairly unedifying spectacle. However, it is to be expected because we are in the run up to an election. All the parties, along with some of the Independents, are trying to offer more to the electorate and accuse others of racism and xenophobia. It is all totally and pathetically irrelevant. It is perfectly obvious that this House is being used. I was astonished...