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Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: To reinforce what the Minister is saying, 14 days may not be the right duration. It is too late to leave it until an action is commenced because the apology should have been made as soon as the newspaper realised it was wrong to print the allegation. It should not certainly wait until as soon as "practicable thereafter, in circumstances where the action was commenced".

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Norris has made some valid points in this regard. It probably tilts the balance too greatly in favour of the newspapers. All Members want fair play for the ordinary Joe Soap who is defamed. I have no problem with the amendments tabled by Senator Norris that include the word, "automatically" although I am unsure whether that will make much difference in interpretation. However,...

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It amuses me to hear Senator Norris waiting for the response of the Minister to the Private Members' Bill. I believed the Minister had written the Bill for the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It is Senator Morrissey.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: I could take them off.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Is the Senator calling for another quorum?

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: I confess to being really surprised and even amused to see this Bill on the Order Paper. There is no reason a Progressive Democrats Senator should propose a Bill such as this when his party shot down a similar, if more carefully thought-out, Bill in the Dáil when it was presented by Fine Gael last year.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It strikes me as the purest form of hypocrisy to oppose a matter one day and propose it the next. I believe in conviction politics, but I also believe that the best time to change one's mind is when one is wrong. Has the Progressive Democrats Party changed its mind, has the Tánaiste decided that his party should support the rights of home owners to defend themselves in their homes and has...

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: They are trying to jump on the band-wagon.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It was not in the Dáil. That is not a point of order.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It smacks of hypocrisy when we see——

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his protection from these interruptions.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: That is quite sufficient for what I have to say. It is typical of the Progressive Democrats to introduce a Bill and, in doing so, to try to steal other parties' clothes. It has done so since it was founded.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: When the Labour Party proposed an 18% income tax rate, it hit home among the Tánaiste and his party. They are so used to stealing everyone else's clothes that it hurts when something similar is done to them.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: We raised it 12 months beforehand.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Even members of the Minister's profession could not take up that one.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Very much so.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Where is the position of this Bill in the context of the Bill before us?

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: It is a farce in any event.

Seanad: Defence of Life and Property Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Maurice Cummins: Hear, hear.