Results 3,361-3,380 of 20,831 for speaker:David Norris
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I support the Minister on this point. It may not cover a case in which I was involved but it comes close to the point. Over the airwaves I stated that the situation pertaining to the selling of alcohol in Dublin is outrageous. Every huckster's shop is stuffed to the gills with gin, beer and wine and no licence application is turned down. On RTE I said I did not know who gave out the...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: They still love me, however, as they do the Minister. There is a fair amount of wreckage in his case as well.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: No.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I oppose this section because it seems extraordinary to claim that a body corporate is the same as a natural person. I do not believe that for a minute. This defect is compounded by the provision that a body corporate may bring a defamation action under this Bill in respect of a statement concerning it that it claims is defamatory "whether or not it has incurred or is likely to incur...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: The Minister should get rid of it.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Except public figures.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I thank the Minister. He points to an interesting case in which a company may make a profit after being the subject of adverse comments, which can happen, as it does in political life. Serious allegations were made against the Taoiseach, following which his popularity boomed. Negative comments sometimes have an unpredictable effect and I am grateful to the Minister for agreeing to take...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am struck by the common sense in the approach taken by Senator Jim Walsh. His instinct is correct. I am astonished by the inclusion of this provision, which seems to be perverse and illogical. However, there is no doubt it is what the media wanted and the Minister has given it to them. I believe Deputy Michael McDowell was the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in June 2005....
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I will and I will not.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: It is not.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: It is and I will prove it.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Why not? It is because it is infallible, I suppose.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: And it was.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: No review of mine was ever worth â¬150,000.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Do. Go on, go on, go on.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am in very poor condition indeed. I have been derailed. I have misled myself. My blood pressure is rocketing. However, I console myself in the thought that the Minister is not in too good a condition either because he has tied himself in such knots of disingenuousness that his blood pressure is about to go through the roof. Minister, I will send you a copy of the judgment. How could...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am through the Chair. He is through his tumbler. The representatives of the Minister, representing his point of view at that time in Strasbourg on behalf of the people of Ireland, ranged far wider than the narrow confines he suggested and mounted a very comprehensive address covering the principles underlying the whole situation pretty comprehensively. They certainly did not say we were...