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- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: It is a clear conflict of interest.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: The company cannot be blamed, but the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: I join colleagues in asking for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to discuss the pharmacy issue. I am once again in receipt of very detailed e-mails quoting facts and figures from pharmacies, principally small pharmacies throughout the country. I have no sympathy for the international chains. The Minister is partly responsible, through legislation, for introducing a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: She is on her holidays, give her a break.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: It is not much use to anybody when one cannot table amendments.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Did the Leader mention if we are to have a sos today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Will there be a sos?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Thank you.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: I support these amendments because it is important that there should be a review and if there is no timescale, it could go into limbo. In light of the considerable debate, particularly when the Bill was before the House in its previous incarnation and a number of us on both sides tried to sabotage elements of it because we were concerned about the effect its operation would have on libel law...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: It is a mixed bag and I welcome some of the amendments. Amendment No. 18, as the Minister said, is intended to facilitate an early apology, because apologies are more effective the closer they are to the commission of the offence by publication. However, the Minister knows well I am not a fan of the defence of fair and reasonable publication. Much material appears in the press which is...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: The Minister, above all, should know that one cannot believe what one reads in the papers.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Good.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: We do not.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: He is suggesting that we add a referendum to remove blasphemy to the second referendum on the Lisbon treaty.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: The Government can get the blasphemy law through first.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: I accept the Minister's invitation to travel to Dundalk and knock on doors with him. The Minister can do Lisbon and I will do blasphemy.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: That is because it is not being used, because-----
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)
David Norris: Why not?