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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: Where a ship comes in from South Korea - I presume it is South Korea-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: -----and a pile of tyres are put on to it, who pays whom for that? Do they pay the Irish or do the Irish pay them for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: They are sitting on the dock and somebody puts them into a ship. Who pays? Does the cheque come to us or do we pay a cheque to somebody?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: Have we to pay for it to go out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: That is all I want to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: I have one factual question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: The point was made earlier by one of the witnesses, and I have forgotten by whom exactly, that truckers' tyres, which are commercial tyres, are not the subject of being dumped throughout the country and that it is car tyres that are being dumped. Is this accepted? The point was made that one does not find truck tyres up on the Featherbeds or wherever. Therefore, I go back to the €11...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: I did not receive an answer to my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: My question was on the dumping of truck tyres. Is somebody not listening over there?
- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: I draw the House's attention to the report of the Seanad Public Consultation Committee on children's mental health, which was launched earlier. In particular, I congratulate the members of the committee, including the Leas-Chathaoirleach who served as Chairman, and not least my colleague, Senator Joan Freeman, who was rapporteur of the committee, for all the hard work they put into focusing...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: -----their independence - I will finish on this point - to say they are more independent than the people in my group is totally wrong.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: May I finish? They are less effective because-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: -----they have refused to co-operate. When they come into this House and say they are the only real Independents here, they are misdescribing the situation. It must be put on the record-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: Since they describe themselves as real Independents, the suggestion being that others are phoney Independents-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: If real independence means-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: I certainly can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: I do not want to get into comment on the fact that they are yet again absent.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: If real independence-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Michael McDowell: If real independence-----