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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. 14: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1) shall apply only to causes of action accruing on or after the date of the coming into operation of this section.”.

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. 15 and 16 are related and will be discussed together.

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Defence of publication on matter of public interest 11. (1) The Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 26: “Publication on matter of public interest 26. (1) It shall be a defence (to be known as the ‘defence of publication on a matter of...

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

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for his remarks. Most people will welcome the clarification that these amendments bring. However, we need to be very clear as a House in terms of setting out precisely the need for this, if you want simplification of the defence of public interest. My position on this matter is fairly straightforward: media organisations or anybody who is publishing information...

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

Verona Murphy: It will be at least 10 p.m. before we reach the voting block. We do not know how many more votes there will be in between.

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, line 25, 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)

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...