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Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I am sure he has the blas mar tá Gaeilge flúirseach aige. Access by the majority of the public to the ideas contained in his speech would be through the broadcast media and issuing a text to the House does not make those ideas available in English to the wider public. That is only a minor point but it must be taken into account as well. I did not read the article and I did not hear the...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I welcome the Minister's response because he has satisfactorily answered a question I had intended to ask. It has been very often the case that, where a headline blackguarded an individual, the apology was not accorded due prominence. Let us not beat around the bush, this is what newspapers do as a matter of course. I therefore regard the provision as a corrective and the attention of...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: Is the section enforceable? Supposing Senator Maurice Hayes is the subject of significant libel on the front page of a newspaper and the consequent apology is made in the Minister's favourite language, Irish, underneath the advertisement for homes for stray dogs, for example——

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: Exactly. Although the Bill states an apology should be made in a reasonable way, how can an offended citizen argue the manner in which it is made to him or her is unfair and that it should be printed on the front page? Is there machinery whereby the citizen can have such recourse?

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: That is a nonsense.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: What about the health of the children?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: He is very moving.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: It is dead and gone with O'Leary in the grave.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: Is the Leader wrong again?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: So it is the boy who should be looked at.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I wish to point out that the Order Paper is misleading. It states Committee Stage of this Bill resumed at amendment No. 4, but it should be amendment No. 14. I left to make a quick telephone call because I did not realise we had reached this point. The point I would like to make falls in between sections 14 and 15. Will the Minister consider the possibility of inserting between these...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I see. My point falls between the two sections and this is presumably the only time when I will have a chance to make it. I was indicating that a new subsection should state: "Where the defendant relies upon truth as a defence, he or she should be obliged in the pleadings containing the defence to set out the facts upon which they will rely in the defence." I will make two points which...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I am opposing section 18 because the notion of honest opinion seems to be a libeller's charter, as it was known for some time. One must be careful about allowing someone to put something in a newspaper because he or she believes it to be true when it is untrue. It would not be fair, particularly when combined with the extraordinary distinction drawn later in the Bill, implicitly if not...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I thought so.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: It is obscure.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: Perhaps it is the way the Minister read it, but I could follow what he said while I could not understand the proposed subsection.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: What if the person wrote that the Minister should be arrested for driving his car while drunk?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: I completely agree with Senator Maurice Hayes. I intended raising the same issue and am surprised it was not raised earlier because it is an absolute scandal. The Director of Corporate Enforcement, Mr. Appleby, can claim a remarkable rate of prosecution and success in an area of business life where we expect high standards. This sort of issue damages our international reputation because it...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: No, he was promised four but has not yet been given them. On this occasion, I am right. I will not rub the Leader's nose in it but I was also right yesterday. I can be wrong but I know when I am right.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

David Norris: The matter suggests that we are not committed to the highest standards in business, which is a pity and damaging to our economy. I ask that the House considers non-Government motion No. 13 on the Order Paper which states: That Seanad Éireann requests the Minister for Foreign Affairs to seek the establishment of a monitoring group to supervise the implementation of the Human Rights...