Results 1-8 of 8 for waste management speaker:Michael McDowell

Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2023)

Michael McDowell: ...substantial institution. It literally prints money. It is in a position to finance its investigations to the extent it wishes. I note the text of the legislation says it is entitled even to give up an investigation where it considers it would be a waste of resources to proceed any further. What about the individual at the receiving end of that investigation? This person gets nothing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: They are difficult to manage but there is no waste. I see.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 May 2006)

Michael McDowell: The Waste Management Act, 1996 prohibits the abandonment of vehicles on any land. The Act provides on summary conviction for a fine not exceeding €1,900 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both or, on indictment, for a fine not exceeding €12.7 million or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or both. Continuing offences carry a daily additional fine of up to...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (22 Feb 2006)

Michael McDowell: The Waste Management Act 1996 prohibits the abandonment of vehicles on any land. The Act provides on summary conviction for a fine not exceeding €1,900 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both or, on indictment, for a fine not exceeding €12.7 million or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or both. Continuing offences carry a daily additional fine of up to...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Michael McDowell: ...as advising the Minister of the appropriateness of his actions and conducting civil proceedings on behalf of the Irish people. It appeared to me that from the days of Peter Berry, there was micro-management of the police in every single respect, through officials of the Department being made Commissioner of an Garda Síochána and a very clear pyramid of authority which went directly to...

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: ...with the summonsing method being used in the points system for speeding offences and so on. Three Departments have a responsibility for this issue which is contiguous and which should be managed in a co-ordinated way. Rather than trying to pass the buck back, I will call on my colleagues in the Departments of Transport and the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to attempt to ensure...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (9 Dec 2004)

Michael McDowell: ...the Oireachtas have absolute privilege as a matter of constitutional law and cannot be impugned in the courts for what they say in either House. There are strict controls over how that privilege is managed and Members cannot lay waste all around them because they are feeling malicious and want to get even with a few people. We must bear in mind that in order to widen the notion of absolute...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004: Second Stage. (11 Mar 2004)

Michael McDowell: ...any person who gives evidence by way of affidavit. At the moment someone wanting to prepare a case properly for court must assume that everybody must attend and give viva voce evidence, which wastes considerable time. Frequently people travel from somewhere like Killarney to Dublin and having given evidence, on which there is no issue, are not cross-examined. In many personal injuries...