Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-03 ============================================================ Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland It is either standard or discretionary. It cannot be both or it cannot be one in one case and not in the other case. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2025-12-03/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:25+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-12-03