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Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

David Norris: It is particularly relevant that the Committee on Procedure and Privileges should examine this matter on a day when we learn of the arrest of two people in the North of Ireland.

Seanad: Aviation Action Plan: Statements. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: The Senator is entitled to ask a question.

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 1: In page 11, to delete lines 9 to 12, and substitute the following: "(b) the collapse or partial collapse of any building or structure under construction or in use as a place of work, (c) the uncontrolled or accidental release, the escape or the ignition of any substance, (d) a fire involving any substance, or (e) any unintentional ignition or explosion of explosives,"....

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: I see. However, we will still get the credit for it. This morning a distinguished Senator on the Government side congratulated the Labour Party on its wonderful, imaginative initiative——

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: ——concerning child care. Of course the Government got the idea from us in this case. It is a copycat.

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: We are but I am merely drawing attention to the principle that if a Senator can, on the Order of Business, draw attention to the Labour Party copying the Government, I can draw attention to the Government copying the Independents. We are grateful that the Government saw sense——

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: It is very relevant.

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: The Government is to accept the Independent Members' amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: I join Senator Brian Hayes in asking for a debate on nursing homes' treatment of the elderly and congratulate a former Member, now Deputy O'Dowd, who was crucially involved in this matter. I say that because he is a former Member of this House and a fine politician not from any partisan view because there are many on the other side who are equally concerned and have a professional commitment...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: As this is an issue that affects all of us, either directly or through our relatives, the Seanad should properly consider it. I wish to raise one further item, a bank robbery involving a shooting in Navan, because it is a most interesting situation and one that should give pause for thought. People are horrified by the increase in gun crime. I trace it all back to the so-called republican...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: ——and we squawked loud and hard when this was happening in Northern Ireland. We owe it to the Garda Síochána to make sure an independent inquiry is held. I will end on this point.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: The Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, said in a newspaper article in reference to Deputy Costello: As if to add insult to injury, Costello referred to the Lusk shootings with the extraordinary phrase: "Where people die as a result of Garda action, there must be a proper procedure for an independent investigation into such incidents. Is this how Costello and the Labour Party perceive what...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: Deputy Costello's reaction is most sensible and is in line with what happens in every civilised country. It is no condemnation of the Garda Síochána that there must and should be an independent inquiry.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: What about the RUC?

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

David Norris: The same was true of the "Gibraltar three".

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: It does in here.

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: The Senator should speak for himself. I will be taking the tablets.

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I apologise for my lack of a script. I gather Senator Ross objected to the number of people reading from scripts. I would read from one if I had one but I only have my own disconnected thoughts. Although this debate has taken place many times over the years, and I used to take a principled and sometimes leading part in it, we are now so used to it and so accustomed to being rebuffed by the...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

David Norris: I never got any. The Minister did not get any either. That is a national scandal, I feel a tribunal coming on. They are not the slightest use anyway so I am not too deprived but I would have liked to have seen what they looked like. I had to contact the Minister's predecessor to get my millennium candle as well so the north side is deprived, with neither iodine tablets nor candles. We need...