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Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: What is wrong with effete?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I raised that, but I also know they sent 29,000 doctors whereas the US established the College of the Americas teaching how to murder and torture people and force them to disappear. That is the contrast.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: And a university head was disciplined.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: It is a very important amendment.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The Senator must be nothing because he is certainly not brief.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I welcome that the Minister is showing flexibility and am glad he is considering the issue of lodgments. It seems very unfair that a person is in trouble if he or she does not accept a lodgment where the award turns out to be less than the amount lodged. The Minister's argument was that the provision existed in other legislation but that does not make it any good. Rather than reject the...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: That is a real disappointment because I think it the most lovely coinage. I suspect the Minister wishes he had coined the term. The phrase "an effete lefty pinko commentariat" has such a magisterial ring to it that I wish the Minister had invented it. I would like to rub salt in the wound of my dear friend, Senator Maurice Hayes, in the most Christian way possible. The Minister challenged...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Everybody can bask in the notion that the country is kept afloat by multinationals but, as I pointed out on the Order of Business recently, having taken the idea from Professor Anton Murphy of Trinity College, approximately half a dozen companies in our wonderful financial services centre — long may it continue to flourish — have only five employees but their turnover is twice the income...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Fianna Fáil is great for producing mushrooms.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Did the Senator buy the mushrooms?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 28: In page 22, subsection (2), line 27, to delete "shall give directions" and substitute "may advise". This relates to the control a judge will have over the question of damages. It is very bad principle to second-guess a jury. Section 29(2) states that in a defamation action brought in the High Court, the judge shall give directions to the jury on the matter of...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: It is honourable of Senator Maurice Hayes to declare his interest in this area. This is a good and appropriate amendment and it is in the interests of the ordinary Joe Soap whose case I have been trying to make here. This amendment is important. If one is libelled or defamed on the front page of a newspaper by the publication of an unpleasant article, an apology for that should be given...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I thought so too. That is why I reprimanded him over it but the net effect of it was that he denied it and said he called him a goblin. I have the evidence of what he said. That is the type of behaviour of which I do not approve. When one seeks an apology and it is not given one then has to sue and that is a fairly dicey game. The individual who takes on a newspaper must have a great...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: A Trojan horse for the Indo.

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I would not wish it to be thought that all those who briefed me on this question of independence did so at the very last minute, because that would not be the truth. I was making the point that a number of them just dumped in the information at the very last minute, as is their right. The material they supplied was for use on Second Stage and not on Committee Stage. However, this does not...

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The Senator indeed spoke very well. I believe we will be able to arrange a system of recognition for them or at least an explanation that will satisfy them. On a practical note, I respect the fact that the Minister has pushed this matter which is very important and has not been addressed for many years, but I do not believe that amendments will be accepted. It would come as a considerable...

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: He is a constituent. The Senator's constituency is the county councils, including that of County Louth.

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: He is in the Senator's constituency.

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Senator Leyden might get an amendment because apparently——

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

David Norris: It seems I may have to. Will somebody point to a convenient window? Would the Minister accept it if I jumped through a ground floor window?