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Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Exactly.

Seanad: Competition Authority Report: Statements. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I wish to share my time with Senator Quinn.

Seanad: Competition Authority Report: Statements. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I congratulate Mr. Fingleton and the Competition Authority on the excellent work done. I am glad Mr. Fingleton is moving on now to investigate the legal profession which richly deserves his attention. We are lucky also to have the services of people such as Dorothea Dowling. Theirs is the kind of incisive intellect needed to look into the uncompetitive practices of this industry. Senator...

Seanad: Competition Authority Report: Statements. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Brokers are a mixed bunch. I had a broker who was a decent old school friend who did as much as he could for me. Brokers are convenient for people like myself who are phobic about forms. However, there are sometimes problems on the structural side of things as they are sometimes tied to a particular company and one does not know how much commission is being charged because they do not inform...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Is the Senator certain of that? I think I see him on the Government benches.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: The comments of the Minister, Deputy Cullen, are a good example.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I congratulate Senator Brian Hayes on his idealism if he believes it is possible to invoke Article 27. He is much more idealistic than me; I do not believe for a minute that there will be a breaking of rank on the Government side and that large numbers of them will vote with us.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I am aching for a debate. I raised this issue from a Luddite perspective four months ago. I do not like the interposition of machines between the voter and the result. Senator Dardis said this is not a serious issue. I would have thought that the undermining of the confidence of the electorate in this State is a dangerous threat to democracy. Since this debate has opened up, I have been in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: There have been increasing concerns about it all along.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I support the call for a debate on violence in the North of Ireland. It is important to remember that people in Sinn Féin really do seem to be moving. I listened two nights ago to a senior Sinn Féin representative on Vincent Browne's programme. He was asked the very direct question whether he would like to see arms taken out of the situation now. He answered "Yes" with uncharacteristic...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Is this a question?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Has the Senator a question?

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: It is on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I support Senator Brian Hayes in welcoming a human rights debate involving the situation in Colombia. As people refer to those known as the Colombia three who admitted to having been found using false passports in an area controlled by the FARC guerrillas, I am sure we will remember the Colombia 2,000 — the 2,000 people kidnapped, tortured and held for ransom by the FARC guerrillas. I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: The House will probably want to recognise the presence in the Visitors Gallery of a distinguished representative of South America.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: Continuing on the foreign affairs area, will the Leader arrange for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Cowen, to come into the House to explain policy formation in principal areas of Irish foreign policy, following the announcement in the newspaper in recent days that we are giving full diplomatic recognition to the military junta in Burma? This seems extraordinary. We continually hear...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: ——mild revolt against any idea that we should treat Tibet, which has always been accepted as a distinct and separate entity, as an internal Chinese question. We now find that the Department of Foreign Affairs has done what successive representatives of Ireland have said is utterly wrong and illegal. There is nothing in the treaties or the diplomatic documents——

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: ——we have signed stating we recognise Tibet as part of China. We do not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Feb 2004)

David Norris: If we want to recognise it as such, the Government must bring the matter before both Houses of the Oireachtas. I ask the Leader to request that the Minister for Foreign Affairs come to the House to debate the question of Burma.