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Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Does this section refer to the situation where the defendant lodges money in court, the plaintiff refuses to accept it, a lower award is made and the plaintiff is penalised for not accepting the earlier offer?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I do not like that and I give notice that I might table an amendment on Report Stage. Would that be in order?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The plaintiff would lose costs.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Surely one can if the party is right. The other side is already saving because it is getting a small reward. I doubt that the plain people of Ireland have the slightest idea of what is being imposed on them in this Bill. They would be very concerned if they did. There are, by and large, reasonably decent standards in Irish newspapers. However, as Senator Maurice Hayes is aware, this is...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Is that the one out in Bray?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: What are they paying for if they have not done anything for which they need to apologise? If that is the case, will they give me a few bob? They are prepared to hand out money apparently for no reason at all but they do not have to apologise or say they were wrong and admit liability. This is something fishy. People like Conrad Black, Sir Anthony O'Reilly and Rupert Murdoch do not hand...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Find the lady; hunt the thimble.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The Senator got it in one.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: We have heard very little about the Privacy Bill for some time.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I join with colleagues in expressing my revulsion at the way in which the story of the young man who tragically met his death in Lucan was treated in the media. It was stated authoritatively that he was known to the police, which he was not, and that he was a convicted criminal, which he was not either. His family, so traumatised by this, has no recourse in action. This afternoon we will...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, BCI.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: It stated it was too political. This is absurd. We can publish any quantity of lies about dead Irish citizens but we cannot have a reasonable advertisement during Lent from a responsible organisation like Trócaire because it is politically incorrect.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: It should be subject to standards of decency and reason. I do not suggest that the Seanad can crack the whip and send the commission to jail but we can question its decisions. I am merely raising a question.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: I appreciate that and would not like to overstep the mark. This is the fifth anniversary of a remarkable and immensely moving letter, which we read with great interest, from a woman who had been told that she was carrying a 16 week old foetus with a severe chromosomal abnormality incompatible with life. The trauma of that news was exacerbated by the fact that she was forced to carry it to...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Finally, there is a group of Kurdish people demonstrating outside the gates of the Oireachtas. They maintain, apparently on good evidence, that the Kurdish resistance leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in prison for some years, is being systematically poisoned. There appears to be medical evidence of it. This matter should be examined by the human rights sub-committee of the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Hurrah.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

David Norris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

David Norris: The Senator does.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

David Norris: May I send my sympathies to the voters of south Tipperary? This tirade is but the beginning. I refer to the matter of Mr. Appleby, which was raised again by my colleague, Senator O'Toole. I very much agree with him and believe the language used by the Taoiseach that Mr. Appleby would have to stand in line and could not be moved up the queue was extraordinarily cavalier and dismissive,...