Results 761-780 of 18,726 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: I did not do it.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: What I said is different.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: I did not make that argument.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: That is not so.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: The present statute law will continue.
- Seanad: Request to Move Adjournment of the Seanad under Standing Order 29. (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: The Senator was mid-platitude.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Now that is fanciful.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Not every view is as good as every other view.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: We are not governed by arbitration.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: "Tried to hear" is the optimal phrase.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Why can he not work here?
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: He is an asylum seeker.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Who opposed me hook, line and sinker, but the Senator?
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: Very effective.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: The Senator is dressed for the role.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: The Senator does not too badly herself.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: The Attorney General would not allow me to do that.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: I would not have wanted to do it. If he advised me that it was unconstitutional, I would never deliberately tender a Bill that I believed to be unconstitutional to any House of the Oireachtas.
- Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Apr 2004)
Michael McDowell: That refers to other persons in accordance with law, not people born in Ireland.