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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: What about C?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: It is also a job.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I wish to make a short point. Senator McDowell appeared to imply that I am against elitism and nothing could be further from the truth.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I am fully in favour of elitism because elite simply means the best. Why on earth should we not have the best? I want the best in the Judiciary and in government. We have the best in the Trinity constituency but I cannot speak for everybody else. I have nothing whatsoever against the elite. There is a popular, or populist, political correctness whereby somebody cannot say they are in...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: In Hogwarts.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Did he turn out conservative?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I am glad that Senator McDowell has clarified matters because the Minister appears to have suggested that the Senator was in favour of some kind of Masonic elite within the legal profession. Senator McDowell has made it clear that this is not the case and it shows how risky it is for anyone, the Minister included, to try to characterise the mindset of a speaker without sufficient evidence....
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I thank "Minister McDowell" for his reply. I am most grateful to him. This is, however, a sub-point and it does not matter. In response to Senator McDowell, the Minister referred to section 40(3), which states that nothing in subsection (2) shall be construed as limiting the advice the Government may give to the President regarding the appointment by the President of a person to be a judge...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Is that the commission is useless.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I will not detain the House for very long. I did not intend to speak very much about this matter. In fact, I did not intend to speak at all, but then I saw an opportunity to do so. I commend the Minister who is both decent and hard-working. If the Department of Health was described as Angola, I do not know how the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government would be described...
- Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Is it not? I stand corrected. Who was responsible for what happened in Crumlin?
- Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Okay-----
- Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I thought I was being corrected on a matter of fact, but I think I am correct in stating it was Fianna Fáil that built the estates in Crumlin and Drimnagh. Senator Lawlor is from Naas and does not know what he is talking about. People should be housed, entitled to rely on a home and facilitated in that regard by the State. I am not entirely sure about inserting a requirement into...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Where would he be tried?
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: With his usual frenzied intelligence, Senator McDowell has filleted out a rather curious little byway of the law. I agree with him as far as the question of examining the evidence is concerned. Surely the most appropriate place for the investigation to take place is where the crime took place. On the other hand, with regard to having the case in some place like Australia, for example, I do...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister did not answer Senator McDowell's query. I was just wondering if he could do so but I see he is not going to.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: He might table amendments on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister does not. How could he know? I would like the Minister to explain to the House how he knows Senator McDowell's motivation.