David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am unambiguous in my attitude toward this Bill. I think it is an appalling tissue of rubbish. We have heard all kinds of stuff on dogs tails and transparent lobsters. They could not even get it right in the Dáil. They tried to squeeze 16 people into 13 places. How nonsensical can one possibly get?

There is a huge whiff of populism off this Bill.I am not convinced that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, despite his public protestations, is that averse to cronyism. Reference was made to the judgment in the case I took in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice O'Higgins's judgment was stupid. He misdirected himself in law because all that can be decided on in the Supreme Court is material arising from legal points in the High Court. Two other nincompoops gutlessly signed the judgment without giving any reason for doing so. I regard that as an aberration.