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- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: However, he looks rather shocked at the prospect of entering my consciousness like that. I thank him for his undertaking to look at this amendment and I shall re-submit it on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: One week a term; that is great.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I have a difficulty with it but I am prepared to wait until we reach the next section to discuss it.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Senator Walsh's point has brought something to mind. I consider I was seriously libelled by one of the gutter newspapers some time ago and on that occasion I did not take the matter to court. I was telephoned around midnight and I got out of bed to answer the telephone, the person read over what he or she proposed to publish and wanted a comment from me. That person was just covering...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I wish to ask the Minister a question on what he has said. I have never heard it said that people have sought out newspapers and told reporters lies. Are there any proven instances of this? It would be fascinating if there were, and perhaps it is possible there have been such instances. Returning to the matter of telephone calls by reporters, there is also a question of headlines carried...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Can the Minister give any examples of people telling lies?
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I will be more specific under cross-examination and ask whether the Minister can give any examples of people telling lies to newspapers with the intention of making profit from libel actions. He said he could do so.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I would be very interested in hearing some of these examples, if the Minister can dig them out. I do not mean to be awkward, but I challenged his predecessor on the basis that I have yet to come across a convincing case where the libel laws frightened off a proper investigative journalist from an investigation. I asked him on a number of occasions, but he said he could not find such a case,...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: My compliments on an elegant wriggle.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: This lunch time the report on rendition by the Irish Human Rights Commission was published. Some of us heard on the radio news the comments of a senior person there which make it clear that the country has not met its human rights obligations. More importantly, that person made detailed reference to exchanges between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the IHRC in which it was clear that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Senator Butler is an old poseur. He should withdraw that remark.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I am glad my colleague Senator O'Toole raised the matter of the Munster Literature Centre. I, too, received that fine book of poetry and the accompanying letter, which I immediately sent on to the director of the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. The James Joyce Centre is internationally known. We restored the entire building by raising â¬1.5 million through voluntary efforts and we are in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)
David Norris: I will take up that. When I do, I will emphasise the fact that the Tallaght Hospital charter has been violated. There was a requirement to maintain the training of nurses, but this is not going to happen. There will be a hospital entrance but no hospital behind it. Will the Leader raise with Government the extraordinary interference by an agent of the Canadian Government in political...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)
David Norris: The Senator was great, was she not?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)
David Norris: Hear, hear.