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Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2025-12-03 Lost Seanad Éireann Division Amendment put:
14Tá
28Níl

What the debate was about

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The reason I consider this sensible is that we may have situations where High Court proceedings are already in being and either a defamation is repeated in that context or a party to the High Court proceedings resorts to an anonymous publication to repeat the defamation already made. If somebody can establish, to the satisfaction of a court, and the court considers it in the interests of justice to make an identification order and the interests favouring disclosure of relevant information outweigh those against, and that this consideration of the court has regard to the rights and obligations of the applicant and those of the anonymous publisher and any third parties who are reasonably likely to be affected by the order, in those circumstances there should be an obligation to make the order.

defamation 41court 79defamed 19internet 28vote 42leas-chathaoirleach 25anonymous 21amendment 41order 62senator 43

Key terms by TF-IDF across 5,074 words from 17 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.

Tellers

Tellers: Tá, Senators Lynn Ruane and Alice-Mary Higgins; Níl, Senators Cathal Byrne and Paul Daly.

Other votes in this debate

QuestionResultTá–Níl
Amendment put: Lost 15–27

Tá

14
  • SF Sinn Féin 6
  • IND Independent 5
  • AON Aontú 1
  • GP Green Party 1
  • LAB Labour 1
SF Chris Andrews Labour Panel
SF Conor Murphy Industrial and Commercial Panel
SF Joanne Collins Agricultural Panel
SF Maria McCormack Labour Panel
SF Nicole Ryan Administrative Panel
SF Pauline Tully Cultural and Educational Panel
IND Alice-Mary Higgins National University of Ireland
IND Aubrey McCarthy University of Dublin
IND Joe Conway Cultural and Educational Panel
IND Lynn Ruane University of Dublin
IND Michael McDowell National University of Ireland
AON Sarah O'Reilly Agricultural Panel
GP Malcolm Noonan Agricultural Panel
LAB Nessa Cosgrove Labour Panel

Níl

28
  • FF Fianna Fáil 14
  • FG Fine Gael 13
  • IND Independent 1
FF Aidan Davitt Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Alison Comyn Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Anne Rabbitte Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Dee Ryan Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Diarmuid Wilson Administrative Panel
FF Margaret Murphy O'Mahony Labour Panel
FF Mary Fitzpatrick Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Niall Blaney Agricultural Panel
FF Ollie Crowe Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Pat Casey Labour Panel
FF Paul Daly Agricultural Panel
FF Robbie Gallagher Labour Panel
FF Shane Curley Cultural and Educational Panel
FF Teresa Costello Agricultural Panel
FG Cathal Byrne Cultural and Educational Panel
FG Eileen Lynch Agricultural Panel
FG Evanne Ní Chuilinn Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Gareth Scahill Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Garret Kelleher Industrial and Commercial Panel
FG Linda Nelson Murray Industrial and Commercial Panel
FG Manus Boyle Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Mark Duffy Labour Panel
FG Mike Kennelly Labour Panel
FG Noel O'Donovan Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG PJ Murphy Agricultural Panel
FG Paraic Brady Agricultural Panel
FG Seán Kyne Cultural and Educational Panel
IND Martin Conway Administrative Panel

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