David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yeats got in and said that we were no petty people. This is no petty Chamber to be dismembered by the likes of the Minister or the Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny. We must stand together in the name of democracy because the Government has everything else, from the President down. It has won all the elections. What more does it want? It has the banks, the councils, the Dáil; it will not get Seanad Éireann if I have anything to do with it.