Results 10,001-10,020 of 18,761 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: It is complete rubbish.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: That is nonsense.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy is blustering now.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: I never used that phrase.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: What about the two-phased approach?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: It is a sexual assault carrying a sentence of 14 years in prison. The Deputy should check the law.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: It is a sexual assault carrying a sentence of 14 years in prison.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy is exposed for knowing nothing. He is just posturing.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy's advisers are wrong. It is a sexual assault carrying a sentence of 14 years in prison.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: For a 60 year old man to engage in that act with a boy is a sexual assault carrying a sentence of 14 years in prison.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: Unless the Deputy is making them.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy should tell the truth about the law. It is a sexual assault carrying a sentence of 14 years in prison for a 60 year old man to indecently assault a young boy.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy is shorter than me.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: Then the Deputy's Bill is unlawful.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." When, last Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1935 was inconsistent with the Constitution and was not brought forward into law in 1937, an unprecedented and extremely complex set of issues was thrown up for the three arms of constitutional government, the Executive, Legislature and...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: I will get it for the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: Young girls who are victims of sexual predators will be challenged on their clothes, make-up and sobriety, on their presence at pubs, discos and other venues for adults, on what they said, how they appeared and acted, on what they pretended or boasted about their past and about their experience. On all these issues their truthfulness and credibility will be rigorously tested by skilled...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: In those 16 years there has been a succession of legislative measures dealing with reform of the criminal law on sexual matters, of the law relating to children and of the law relating to sexual abuse. No Member of either House of the Oireachtas has ever tabled an amendment to any of those pieces of legislation along the lines recommended by the Law Reform Commission, and for good reason....
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael McDowell: They also include Nora Owen, who sat in this seat for a number of years, and the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, who occupied the same position and publishedââ