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Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: I have just returned from abroad and had not quite anticipated this debate. However, I am glad that it has been put down by my colleagues and I am happy to lend my name to it. I welcome it and I believe it is important that Senator Henry should have approached an area in which I am vitally concerned from a slightly different angle. I would like to say, at the beginning, that I have...

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Splendid. Hear, hear.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Does that apply even to a Fianna Fáil Minister? Surely not.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: That explains it.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: How does the Senator know?

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: I agree with the Minister but I am not responsible for it. It is not the phraseology of the——

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Nor me, particularly.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: What is wrong with being old-fashioned? I am a bit that way myself.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Absolutely.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Is the Minister indicating a withdrawal of the amendment?

Seanad: Family Law: Motion. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Perhaps that could be considered.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: I support Senator Ormonde's comments. Although I was abroad in Cyprus, I watched it on television and was immensely proud, as were many of my Cypriot friends who watched it with me, of the colour, efficiency and dignity with which the whole ceremony was held. With regard to electronic voting, I do not believe it was fraud on the part of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, undermined the senior professional body dealing with computer science by rubbishing it as a flat-earther and anti-globalisation protestor. If it is claimed that Ireland has the most wonderful electronic industry, why was the contract given to one Dutchman? It seems bizarre that there was no confidence in our own...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: ——the UK Government licensed the export of a custom-built torture chamber to the Gulf states. There have recently been a number of court cases involving people in and around the Oireachtas, the costs of which have been absolutely crippling. Humanely speaking, whatever the rights and wrongs of the cases, one must feel sympathy for people faced with legal bills of €1 million or €2...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: The bottom drawer.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2004)

David Norris: We will read it in Irish.