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- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: First, I will deal with Deputy Carthy's point about time or costs. The point I make is that if a case takes longer, it will cost more. Individuals will have to pay more for a case if it goes for six days rather than four days. The two extra days will add extra cost to it. Both colleagues referred to the Higgins decision. It was an important Supreme Court decision that set out the...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Matt Carthy: I feel the Minister is chasing his tail trying to find reasons to support this provision when he knows in his own heart, and with his own legal experience, that there is no credible reason to do it. This was a move on the part of a predecessor of his, predominantly pressed by large-scale media outlets and owners, to address one particular issue and then a number of other issues were thrown...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Deputies Carthy, McGrath and Gannon for their contributions. I will start on where there is agreement in what they have said. It is correct to say that the contentious part of the legislation before the House is Part 3, which concerns the abolition of juries. I acknowledge that the colleagues who have spoken are generally supportive of the legislation, notwithstanding their...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Mattie McGrath: I believe it is a very retrograde step to remove a jury from this situation in the High Court. Juries have proven their worth in the justice system over time. The Minister had a different opinion himself when he was on the Opposition benches. I would be very concerned at what he is doing here. We all know that defamation is very serious. I was a victim myself of it one time and it is...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Gary Gannon: Once again, I will table an amendment today to retain juries. They are vital in defamation cases in the High Court. I want to be clear about why I think they are important. There is a lot in this Bill that deserves support, such as the anti-SLAPP measures, which are welcome and necessary. Protecting people who speak out in the public interest is a step in the right direction, but a...
- Message from Select Committee (2 Jul 2025)
- Message from Select Committee (2 Jul 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment has completed its consideration of the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025 and has made amendments thereto.
- Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees (2 Jul 2025)
- Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees (2 Jul 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 42. The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Revised...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 17, after “Justice” to insert “, Home Affairs and Migration”. I welcome the fact that we are doing Report Stage of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill now. This is a straightforward amendment because all it will do is reflect the change in the title of the Department and my ministerial office from the Minister for justice,...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, lines 19 and 20, to delete “of section 34C into the Principal Act” and substitute “into the Principal Act of different provisions of Part 4A of that Act effected by section 17”. This is an amendment to section 1(2) of the Bill, which provides for the commencement of the Act. Amendment No. 2 simply clarifies that different...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, line 22, to delete the comma after “Act” and substitute the following: “— “cause of action”, “defamation” and “defamation action” have the same meanings as they have in the Principal Act;”. This amendment seeks to include different references to "cause of action",...
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá leasú Uimh. 4 in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí Gannon agus Carthy. Amendments Nos. 4 to 9, inclusive, are related. Amendments Nos. 5 to 9, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 4. Amendments Nos. 4 to 9, inclusive, will be discussed together.
- Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)
Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, to delete lines 18 to 35, and in page 7, to delete lines 1 to 9. I will also speak to amendment No. 6. Amendment No. 4 is a simple but substantive amendment. We have spoken about this previously. Our principal objection to this legislation is the abolition of juries in all cases. I believe the Minister would privately accept that this is a bad,...
- Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)
Charlie McConalogue: The images we see from Gaza and the horrifying humanitarian situation are truly appalling. The trajectory of displacement and disenfranchisement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is unfathomable. More than 56,000 people have been killed in Gaza. These are the ones whose deaths have been verified. Many more bodies lie beneath the rubble. Behind each number is an individual, a...
- Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)
Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister for being here to facilitate the debate on the Middle East. All of us in the House can agree on how horrified we are by what we are seeing on our televisions day in, day out in terms of the atrocities that are taking place in the Middle East. The massacre of human life is absolutely atrocious. A number of years ago we would not have expected to witness this in the year...