Results 1-20 of 157 for destroyed speaker:David Norris

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

David Norris: ...was great fun and very moving for me. As the Cathaoirleach mentioned, this is Bloomsday. It is inevitable I should mention Bloomsday on a day like this. James Joyce said that if Dublin were destroyed, it could be rebuilt from the pages of Ulysses. He was not right. What we would get is a very accurate street map but with almost no description of architectural frontage whatever so that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

David Norris: ...He is very concerned about something that is happening and that perhaps does not have a direct bearing on the business of the House, but I think he has found a link. It is apparently proposed to destroy a notable beautiful green space in the heart of the city of Dublin. We are very lucky to have the likes of St. Stephen's Green, Merrion Square, Mountjoy Square and so on, but green space...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Jun 2021)

David Norris: ...to South America, to Brazil under the thug Bolsonaro. There are 200,000 acres of Brazilian rainforest burned each day. This is 150 acres lost every minute of every day, which is 78 million acres destroyed every year. Why is the European Union still buying this Brazilian beef? We have farmers and beef producers in this country. We are told it is not our business and that it is in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)

David Norris: ...and another on the back stating "There goes Oliver". Well, here comes Charlie and there goes Charlie. He has done a damn good job. He has filleted the Bill of the Minister, Deputy Ross. He has destroyed it. He has left it in shreds. I would love to see the face of the Minister, Deputy Ross, when this banana skin lands under his right foot, or under his right hoof, I should say.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

David Norris: ...to that and the Mercosur agreement, it is astonishing that without protest, or significant protest, in order to facilitate this agreement, an area in the rainforest the size of Leitrim will be destroyed. That indicates one thing to me, namely, that the EU does not give a single, solitary shit about the environment. That is the truth of the matter. Despite all the fine words and blather,...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 May 2019)

David Norris: ...of the lender’s family or household for the member’s private and domestic use. (5) Subsection (1) does not apply if the owner or lawful user of the work from which the reproduction was made disposes of, gives away, rents, or sells that work to another person without first destroying all reproductions of that work which he or she has made under that subsection. (6) Without...

Seanad: Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion (13 Feb 2019)

David Norris: ...but Lucia sent me a photograph of him, which I got today. Shane was an extraordinarily vital young man who was full of life. That life was snatched away by a Lithuanian drug addict. It is quite extraordinary to think that a young man who was so alive was destroyed in this way. A motion was put forward in the Dáil by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan that summarised some of Zigimantas...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

David Norris: ...of the lender’s family or household for the member’s private and domestic use. (5) Subsection (1) does not apply if the owner or lawful user of the work from which the reproduction was made disposes of, gives away, rents, or sells that work to another person without first destroying all reproductions of that work which he or she has made under that subsection. (6) Without...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

David Norris: They destroyed the solar energy panels that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018)

David Norris: .... Fifty years ago, when I started out on my journey of seeking civil and human rights for gay people in this country, I was warned that the Roman Catholic Church would be against me and that it would destroy me. I said that would not happen because, like the other Christian churches, it has never once told the truth about human sexuality. That series of lies will come home to haunt...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

David Norris: ...contact the agency which looked after this for me. I wanted to advise it that I wished to exclude the people to whom I had already sent material. When we contacted the company, it told us it had destroyed that information under data protection rules. It is a bit mad that when one selects a target group and instructs a company to send out materials, on contacting the company later it...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2018)

David Norris: ...murdered at the behest of the Christian churches in Uganda, have both been banned. They join an enormous number of people who under the recent regimes have been persecuted, isolated and their careers destroyed. I think of people like Archbishop Hunthausen, Charles Curran, Leonardo Boff and the Reverend Professor Dr. John O'Neill. I could spend the whole morning listing them. They have...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

David Norris: ...our cultural heritage. There is nothing like this streetscape in the entire world. The ESB was originally told by the planning department in Dublin County Council to reinstate the facade it had destroyed but apparently it managed to weasel around that. It now intends to put up some other modern architect's idea of what a Georgian facade should be. I suppose it is too late to rectify...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2018)

David Norris: .... Two thousand applications for building permits have been made by the Palestinians in the past few years but only 30 have been granted. Is that not astonishing? The Israelis use bureaucracy to destroy the ethos of the Palestinians. I have been there and I have seen the separate roads. What is that but apartheid, when the Palestinians cannot drive or walk on the roads in their own...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

David Norris: ...Síochána - conspired together knowingly to make false accusations against a citizen of the State and to frame him. Had that citizen not had a tape recording of that meeting, he could have been destroyed and the false accusations would have been held against him.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

David Norris: ...discovery. I know a little about discovery. During my many triumphant legal actions, we sought discovery against RTÉ and RTÉ was forced to disclose information, including tape recordings, that destroyed its case. It had to do it. I understand it to be a criminal offence not to comply with an order for discovery. Third, a senior garda met Deputy McGuinness, who is a most...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

David Norris: ...protected marsh fritillary butterfly. The sociable caterpillars of this butterfly emerge from hibernation in late February-early March feeding on grassland containing its food plant. Burning destroys this species by burning the larva. These are the kind of issues that need to be considered in any screening and assessment and it is important that not only are these screenings carried out,...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

David Norris: ...end of the season, curlew and other upland breeding birds have begun their nesting in March and they will also be impacted. They require tall vegetation in which to nest. Burning in March will destroy this kind of habitat. Other wildlife animal areas have also been affected. I have already mentioned butterflies, but moths, hedgehogs, bats and so on are also affected, not to mention...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

David Norris: ...stupid in the way it harassed gay people in Cuba, about which I protested. However, if one looks at the American experience, democracy was attacked everywhere it turned up in South America.They destroyed Nicaragua and established the School of the Americas. They should be ashamed, not the Cubans, a valiant people struggling for the rights of humanity. I wish to raise a question I raised...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2016)

David Norris: ...bikes cycling on the pavement with a telephone at her ear. It is funny but it is also dangerous, particularly for people even more elderly than I am who could be knocked down and have their limbs destroyed. There is also a policy of restricting the number of parking spaces in new developments. There is a deliberate plan to curtail people, particularly those living in the inner city,...