David Norris (Independent)

I am calling for a debate on this report for the reasons I have just set out. The entire political system has been corrupted and vitiated and politicians made terrified. Against this background, I was astonished by the observation made by the Press Ombudsman of Ireland on "Morning Ireland" on 29 May that the message from the Leveson inquiry to British newspaper editors was that the current system was "not quite up to scratch." That is a remarkable understatement on a situation where people are dead, telephones were hacked, and the political, police and information systems corrupted, yet the ombudsman who is charged with oversight of this area-----