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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Lisburn is just up the road.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I am sure this will prompt a flurry of activity today.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: The Leader has it all wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: What about me? I am the mother of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: In the context of the first non-Government motion on the Order Paper in the name of the Independent Senators regarding the status of charities etc., perhaps the Leader will indicate when legislation will be forthcoming. We were promised legislation to make charities more accountable, to regulate their activities and so forth. In saying this, I am not trying to be a Scrooge. I have just...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I do not consider the late General Eoin O'Duffy, in the absence of a more appropriate and positive example, a suitable role model for impressionable, young gay people.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I wish to refer to an issue I raised yesterday, which is the report of the Irish Human Rights Commission on rendition. It is an important matter and I compliment the Green Party, through you, a Chathaoirligh, on its apparently firm stand. I hope that party maintains its firm stand so as to extract for the first time honest answers from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern....

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Russians were better off under the Soviet Union.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

David Norris: The country is run by gangsters.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

David Norris: If it were a democracy, the United States would have bombed it.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I agree with Senator Regan. I am astonished that a Fianna Fáil Minister would introduce this kind of thing in the light of the case mentioned by the Senator. This is the celebrated Reynolds case, which followed some American precedents that have been extremely damaging. Look at the state of play in America, especially for politicians and negative advertising. People can tell any quantity...

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: It also came out of the United States case of Sullivan v. The New York Times Company.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: The Minister has been open, honest and interesting. I applaud the fact that he shared his views on this difficulty with the House. I am pleased he thinks the judges' following the Sullivan case was the start of the rot, followed by the infamous Reynolds case in Britain, which no Irish person could relish. The Minister indicated that the Judiciary is following such precedents in other...

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: It allowed me to decriminalise homosexuality. I thank Mr. de Valera, and I do not imagine he expected that.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I am just making the point, and, regrettably I have to leave the House for a while, although not before I hear the Minister's reply. I believe we are creating two classes of person here. The Constitution does not say the good name of an ordinary citizen may not be dragged in the mud but if he or she is stupid enough to get elected to the Dáil or Seanad, or even a county council, then one...

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I move amendmentNo. 18: In page 18, subsection (1), line 31, to delete paragraph (a). I am precluded from calling a vote because I have another appointment. Perhaps we can return to battle, however, on Report Stage.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I move amendmentNo. 20: In page 19, subsection (2)(f)(i), lines 9 and 10, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 9 down to and including "standards" in line 10. Can the Leas-Chathaoirleach give me the opportunity to find the relevant part of the Bill because I was just leaving the House? .

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I shall be obliged because unfortunately I have to leave now. That leaves me with the opportunity to re-submit. I shall read the Minister's reply with great interest, and I apologise for having to leave now.

Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I am very grateful. The Minister, in fact, has articulated exactly what was in my mind, and I am grateful for that.