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

David Norris: Yes. How long remains?

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

David Norris: Very well. If I had children with someone I loved——

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

David Norris: ——I would want to spend as much time with them as possible. I would prefer that to commuting in the car. What of the plight of the children of refugees and asylum seekers? I heard a radio discussion on this point today and they are expected to survive on €9 per week, even to buy nappies. We should consider the entire picture and not indulge in an election fest.

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

David Norris: No, it was stated that they were xenophobic.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Seán Power, to the House. I will have sufficient time to finish a point which I believe to have some practical application and which comes from my own limited experience of hospitals. I have had some difficulties with my prostate which obliged me to be taken into hospital for an examination. It is a fairly...

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: If I may finish the point, I was not encouraged on my way into the hospital by listening to a radio programme which discussed the prostatectomy operation and reported that among the fairly common side effects were impotence and incontinence. I am not sure how true that is but patients need the truth. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. I look forward to continuing the debate on the...

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I am afraid so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: That is rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: And by Fianna Fáil also.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I did not say that. I was talking about the President's speech.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: And poles.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It looks as though I will be in possession again next week.

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: It is like a relay race.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: A good Independent.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I welcome the fact that we have extended the time, which I have been seeking for some time. I am now happy to withdraw my motion on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: I am pleased to learn that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, made proposals which are warmly welcomed by Professor Fottrell to double the number of medical places in universities throughout the country, which is very important. I hope these persons who were pinched, as in the cases brought before the House by Senator Henry and I, will now be treated with some leniency. I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: She showed a complete lack of any historical understanding whatever——

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

David Norris: ——and the material she embarked on was very contentious. In view of the fact that the strategy of Fianna Fáil——