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

David Norris: I wish to raise a point of order. I ask for a ruling from the Chair as to whether Senator O'Toole is correct in this as the Minister is on the record of the House as having said that he was offered the option. If this is not the case, who offered him the option?

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

David Norris: Will the Minister inform the House who gave him the option? He said he had an option.

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

David Norris: Is the Senator now speaking for them all? His concern for his 34 colleagues is equally touching.

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

David Norris: I raised this matter during the previous discussion of the Bill and it has not been addressed. However, Members now have a distinguished legal authority pointing out this.

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

David Norris: May I be of some assistance to the Minister? Had he read a little further, he would have come to section 2, in which there is a definition of the tort of defamation.

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

David Norris: My point, which I also made on the previous occasion, is that it should have been included in the list of definitions.

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

David Norris: I have a question on this section. I understand the principle that retrospective legislation is highly regrettable and vitiates many of the best principles of the law. While I may return to this issue later, I have been made aware of a case in which highly serious, unpleasant and completely inaccurate statements were made about a deceased person to the great regret of his family....

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: I am very pleased to follow Senator Regan because in recent weeks I have repeatedly raised the issue of introducing the Defamation Bill on Committee Stage rather than on Second Stage. Nearly two thirds of the House have not had the opportunity to speak on it, which is an outrage and an abrogation of democracy. The Leader knows this because he said in the House that to introduce it on Second...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: There are a lot of eminent and well-paid people giving evidence to the tribunal.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: A Chathaoirligh, could you elaborate on the pay of the learned judges? You have mentioned on several occasions their eminence and the fact they are well paid. I would be interested to hear the reason for that. Perhaps you would expand on your interest in their remuneration.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Go on.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: This is a guillotine. Introducing it on Committee Stage is effectively a guillotine.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: All right, but the Leader said there was to be no guillotine and he would not stand over a guillotine, yet he is doing that today.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: This is a guillotine. There is one this afternoon.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Great.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: The Leader will see me at 4.45 a.m. if he likes.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Name and shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Report on Seanad Reform: Motion (28 Nov 2007)

David Norris: I will support the amendment to the motion. I indicated I would sign it but I am afraid it was a little too late. My problems with the motion are manifold. I refer to the word "commitment", for example. Senator O'Toole got a commitment from a previous Leader of the House, Michael Lanigan. When he asked if the commitment would be fulfilled, he was told it was not an absolute commitment so...

Seanad: Report on Seanad Reform: Motion (28 Nov 2007)

David Norris: Including the DIT.