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- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 30: In page 17, line 6, to delete “34K.” and substitute “34L.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 17, line 27, to delete “34L.” and substitute “34M.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 32: In page 18, line 13, to delete “34M.” and substitute “34N.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 33: In page 18, line 14, to delete “34L(1)(a)” and substitute “34M(1)(a)”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 34: In page 19, line 33, to delete “intermediate” and substitute “intermediary”. These amendments make changes to the definitions contained in the proposed section 45 of the Defamation Act 2009 introduced by section 19 of the Bill. Section 45 provides the Circuit Court with jurisdiction to make identification orders. This allows a person...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will be brief in response. I note what Deputy Carthy said about the provenance of the Reynolds defence, which emanated from the British House of Lords. I am not trying to open up old wounds, but the jury system came from the British system of justice that operated in Ireland. I will not go back on that. Deputy Carthy said that people should not tell lies. Everyone agrees with that....
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 16: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "Abolition of Reynolds defence 12. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 26: “Abolition of Reynolds defence 26A. (1) Any common law defence known as the Reynolds defence that, immediately before the commencement of section 12 of the Defamation...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 17: In page 10, after line 37, to insert the following: "(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.".
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 18: In page 11, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: "(2) The amendments effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to applications under section 28 of the Principal Act made on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.".
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 8, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(2) The amendment effected by paragraph (a) of subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 12: In page 8, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(2) The amendments effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 13: In page 9, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 14: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Defence of publication on matter of public interest 11. (1) The Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 26: “Publication on matter of public interest 26. (1) It shall be a defence (to be known as the ‘defence of publication on a matter of...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, line 25, to delete “instituted” and substitute “brought”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, to delete line 32.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 9: In page 7, line 9, to delete “instituted” and substitute “brought”.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, line 19, after “corporate” to insert “that is made on or after the date of the coming into operation of section 6 of the Defamation (Amendment) Act 2025”. This group consists of the transitional provisions included throughout the Bill. Before I address those amendments, since we are on section 8, I will refer to the...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will reply to the point Deputy Carthy made about section 8. It got some publicity as well around the fact that it was suggested I had deliberately changed the provisions of section 8 to suit myself, or for some purpose that was not in the public interest. As Deputy Carthy knows, that is not correct because he was here on 2 August last year when the Bill was introduced and there has been...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 21, to delete “the”.