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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I will conclude by thanking people for the many Christmas cards I have received this year.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I hope people will not take it badly when I say——

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: ——that I would have appreciated it if the stable at Bethlehem, and not that at Leinster House, had been depicted on a few more of them.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Dexterity and agility alone would not be called into question.

Seanad: Substance Abuse: Motion (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Tá céad míle fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Chomh maith le daoine eile anseo, ba bhreá liom tréaslú leis an méid atá le rá aige faoi chúrsaí drugaí agus alcólachas. Molaim a chur chuige agus a mhodh múinte freisin. While I welcome this debate there are aspects of it I do not welcome. I worry about our tendency to discuss these matters in a frenzied moment when events occur in...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: The sins of the fathers will be visited.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: We do.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I never cease to be impressed by the quality of Senator O'Toole's CV. It is fine, however, for Independent Senators to disagree with each other from time to time. On this occasion, I disagree with both my highly esteemed colleagues. I am sure that does not surprise them.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I am strongly convinced of the importance of this section. I suggest to Senator Norris and others that it is not simply a question of feelings nor is it merely a matter of reputational damage, as my colleague, Senator O'Toole, described it. Incorporated bodies have been protected in our laws for a long time. The notion of the veil of incorporation in company law exists for a reason — to...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: If it was true, it cannot have been defamatory.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: He is undead.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I thought the sun shone from there.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: One can say anything about all of them.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: On a sheet of paper distributed in the House, certain sections have been very helpfully grouped together for our consideration. I see that section 12 is linked with section 31. I wonder if it should not in fact——

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise. I was going to say that section 29 is very much connected with section 12. In considering the issue of the Supreme Court having the power to adjust the award of damages, what consideration has been given to the question of whether it should be a jury that awards damages at the level of the High Court, as is provided for in section 29? If one considers the analogy with the...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to add my voice to those of the Minister and my colleagues because this requires clarification. The distinction requiring to be made concerns the situation in which several people hear or read defamatory comments, which is the basis of most defamation cases, and appears to be what the phrase "multiple publication" seeks to convey. There is also, however, a legitimate concern about...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Some natural bodies do not have feelings.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I think the sinking feeling referred to something else of which he was having a premonition.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I will second Senator Norris's amendment to the Order of Business because like him, I agree that we should be discussing the Defamation Bill on Second Stage and not on Committee Stage. I greatly regret, despite all the lip service that is paid to the quality of the debate in the Seanad Chamber, that in many ways, Members are being frustrated from considering issues in the way they might. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: ——I do not call the Commissioner a moron but the argument is certainly moronic. To suggest to people that they will be the laughing stock of Europe if they reject the treaty is no substitute for good argument. Rather than hearing from dignitary after dignitary such as Commissioner McCreevy and the Dutch Minister for European Affairs, Frans Timmermans, who was in town to tell us it would...