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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Alex White: I am sorry I missed that.

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

Alex White: Perhaps the Minister would clarify the section, as it seems the most important word is "may" in the phrase "the Supreme Court may, in addition to any other order that it deems appropriate". It is already a long-standing element of our law that the Supreme Court can make a finding or conclude that damages awarded in the High Court are excessive. Cases go back to the High Court for that...

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

Alex White: With respect, it does not arise in the debate on this section. The Minister can clarify the issue in due course. The issue raised by Senator Walsh may be legitimate in terms of his concerns about cross-examination, although I share the view of Senator Norris on that aspect, but I wonder whether it arises under this section. The section deals with verifying affidavits, which are quite...

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

Alex White: If one does not like either.

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

Alex White: On a point of order, I too have a meeting to attend at 5.30 p.m. and another at 6.30 p.m. but I am waiting to deal with the sections in which I am interested. Every Member should have to do the same or else we change the system.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (4 Dec 2007)

Alex White: On behalf of the Labour Party I wish to be associated with the expressions of sympathy directed towards the family of Seán Keegan and the Fianna Fáil Party. I did not know Mr. Keegan personally but my colleague, Deputy Willie Penrose, knew him well as a man of considerable integrity with a strong agricultural background and an ear for all of his constituents. He was widely experienced and...

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

Alex White: On a point of order, I understand the Senator wants to make his contribution on this matter. However, the Bill is set our in a systematic way. While I am not criticising the Senator, I ask the Chair whether we will be permitted to address such issues as we wish at any point in the debate or whether we will be asked or required to wait until that section. If Senator Callely is to be...

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

Alex White: It is one or the other.

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

Alex White: It is not on section 1, but section 29.

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

Alex White: I am sorry to rise again——

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

Alex White: What Senator Walsh said is wrong.

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

Alex White: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, if the ruling is to mean anything——

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

Alex White: The Senators on the Government side.

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

Alex White: The concern expressed by some Members for those of us who are new Members of the House is touching and much appreciated. However, I assure my colleagues that we are well able to look after ourselves and to take——

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

Alex White: ——a view on what is being proposed. I agree fully with Senator Norris's earlier proposal that this Bill should have reverted to Second Stage and I voted to that effect on the Order of Business. It is a pity the Government did not take that approach. Instead, there is what one could describe as a Fianna Fáil solution to a Fianna Fáil problem, whereby although one does not allow for a...

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

Alex White: Members are debating section 2.

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

Alex White: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, subsection (4)(b), line 24, after "person" to insert the following: "or the publication to the second-mentioned person was in the course of the performance of duties of a secretarial nature by the second-mentioned person (being a person whose relationship if any to the first-mentioned person is primarily based on contract) and there were no reasonable...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Alex White: Go on; tell us.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Alex White: He is the lord mayor.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Alex White: I support Senator Fitzgerald's call for an adequate debate in this House on the nursing homes Bill when it is introduced. There have been reports in recent days on this matter and I ask the Leader to confirm whether it is intended to publish this Bill on Thursday this week or whether the matter has been clarified in the past few hours. It would be a matter of concern if such an important...