Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-01-21
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 15:
In page 11, after line 42, to insert the following:
“(f) whether, any statement having been made which a reasonable or prudent person would conclude was capable of being defamatory, the presenter took prompt steps to—
(i) challenge the person making the statement,
(ii) alert viewers or listeners to the problem of possible defamation, the right of the subject of the statement to defend his or her good name and to initiate an action where appropriate against the publisher of defamatory material, and
(iii) where the person the subject of the statement, or his or her representative, was actually present, to give the person or the representative an immediate opportunity to challenge the published statement.”.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-21