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Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I could not be bothered listening to that kind of tripe.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: That will be quite enough for me. There are other matters that should be addressed such as the lack of resources for monitoring this matter. I do not mean only monitoring our own people. If they are so innocent, why do they go without navigation lights when they are about this filthy, wasteful and profligate trade of monofilament and drift netting? Let us look at the foreign fishermen. We all...

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I will give the Minister the figures tomorrow.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It is not just what they catch. It is the amount of damage they do.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: And I am always patronised by the Senator.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: The Senator pays taxes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Acute Hospital Services: Statements. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I agree with Senator O'Brien in complimenting the House and its political staff on getting this debate scheduled so quickly. It does a public service that this matter be so ventilated. It is very useful and I am glad we are having the debate. I wonder whether the Tánaiste, Deputy Harney, now regrets so courageously taking on the poisoned chalice of the Health and Children Ministry. It...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: We do not have a leader as I tried to explain. The Senator is very welcome.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It was only a quarter of an hour this morning, as usual.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: We received a valued and valuable service from the RTE journalists who bravely reported from Baghdad during the worst of the war.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Senator Leyden gets a pension although he is still active in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: I deplore the return to the neurotic obsession of certain sections of Fianna Fáil with RTE. In the old days it was said it was full of communists and stickies and now it is said they are all capitalists. We would be foolish to undermine our national broadcaster.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It is perfectly reasonable from time to time for there to be criticism of it, but we should not destroy public service broadcasting here, as has happened in other countries. We need only look next door to Britain and the way the Government there tried to undermine the BBC. We should not let that happen here. We get a very good service from the national broadcaster. When we want to highlight...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: No, but the Senator practically has. He is on it every bloody night. I do not know what he is squawking about, he is just looking for another headline. A meeting of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges is scheduled. Will the Deputy Leader confirm that the question I have repeatedly raised — and in respect of which I would say that there is support across this House, although for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: It is the most vital element of our business, the one that is covered by the media and the one in which people are most interested. Why do we not go with the flow, as they say, and accept the reality, instead of impotently trying to curtail it? We say that a half an hour is allocated for it but I suggest the time allocated should be extended to 45 minutes or an hour. Every sitting day the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: Let us be realistic and honest about this. Can the Leas-Chathaoirleach give me a guarantee that this matter will be on the——

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

David Norris: We do not have a leader. We appear to have a new leader in Senator Coonan; that is one up for us. Can we have an extra chair?