David Norris (Independent)

I am grateful to my colleague, Senator Quinn, for allowing me to share his time and also for exaggerating me into a professorship. I was a mere senior lecturer when I retired precipitately from the college of the most Sacred and Undivided Trinity near Dublin.

This is a first bite at the cherry and it is an instant reaction. I have only got a kind of limited purchase on the budget which I think is a reasonably good one. I will be voting with the Government because in difficult times it has done a reasonable good job.