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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. 8: In page 6, to delete line 32.

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. 9: In page 7, line 9, to delete “instituted” and substitute “brought”.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment agreed to.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Amendments Nos. 10 to 14, inclusive, 17 to 22, inclusive, and 37 are related and will be discussed together.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, line 19, after “corporate” to insert “that is made on or after the date of the coming into operation of section 6 of the Defamation (Amendment) Act 2025”. This group consists of the transitional provisions included throughout the Bill. Before I address those amendments, since we are on section 8, I will refer to the...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I will make a couple of points. On the retail defamation, as it is called, and section 8, as I have indicated before, it is incredibly important that we have this defence. It is equally important that this defence is not abused. There is clearly a communication issue. I met a retailer in the House today, a member of a representative organisation, who expressed real concerns that this...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will reply to the point Deputy Carthy made about section 8. It got some publicity as well around the fact that it was suggested I had deliberately changed the provisions of section 8 to suit myself, or for some purpose that was not in the public interest. As Deputy Carthy knows, that is not correct because he was here on 2 August last year when the Bill was introduced and there has been...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 21, to delete “the”.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment agreed to.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, lines 22 to 24, to delete all words from and including “a” in line 22 down to and including line 24 and substitute the following: “the court may, on the application of any party to a defamation action in the High Court, or a question of fact or an issue arising in such an action, order that the action or any issue of fact in the...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 60; Níl, 84; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Matt Carthy and Gary Gannon; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Tá Ciarán Ahern, Ivana Bacik, John Brady, Pat Buckley, Joanna Byrne, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Ruth Coppinger, Réada Cronin, David Cullinane, Jen Cummins, Pa Daly, Máire Devine, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Aidan Farrelly, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Ann Graves, Eoin Hayes, Rory Hearne, Alan Kelly, Eoghan...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment declared lost.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 58; Níl, 84; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Matt Carthy and Gary Gannon; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Tá Ciarán Ahern, Ivana Bacik, John Brady, Pat Buckley, Joanna Byrne, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Ruth Coppinger, Réada Cronin, David Cullinane, Jen Cummins, Pa Daly, Máire Devine, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Aidan Farrelly, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Ann Graves, Eoin Hayes, Rory Hearne, Alan Kelly, Eoghan Kenny, Martin...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Amendment declared lost.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I do not know if the Minister realises, but he has undershot the entire premise and logic put forward for this Part. If I am right, he dismissed the costs that might be incurred but he said there might be an impact on the time. I would argue that the time saved would be minuscule. The Minister seems to accept that we are now in a situation following the Higgins case where there is a...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I listened intently to the Minister's contribution in response to the points made by the speaker to my left, Deputy Carthy, and the speaker behind me, Deputy Mattie McGrath, but I did not hear him refer to what happened following the Higgins case. I have a simple question: why is he proceeding with the abolition when the law on which the proposal is based has subsequently been swept away by...