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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: I express my sympathy to the Leader for the incredible pressure he is under in the House. Senator Conway seeks €1 billion a year, while Senator Leyden wants his savings back. How can the country survive such ceaseless demands on the Exchequer? I do not know where we will go with all that. We had a debate yesterday on what was the latest Brexit development, but overnight, what is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: The funny thing is that the The Guardiantoday reminds us that under the existing law in the UK, namely, section 10(2) of the exit Act, nothing in various sections of the Act authorises regulations that diminish in any form the North-South co-operation provided for by the Belfast Agreement, or the creation or facilitation of border arrangements between Northern Ireland and the Republic of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: There is now a proposal to break the UK's own law or, one presumes, to change it in the utmost bad faith. I accept that the Irish Government must play a careful game of not being seen to be unreasonable and of keeping its language polite, respectful and so on, and that the EU, too, is playing a careful game not to run into the trap of being seen to be aggressive towards the UK and, in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: We will discuss the budget later. I want to raise on the Order of Business the possibility of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Simon Coveney, coming to this House to discuss one aspect of Brexit which I think is of great significance. Today's revelation in The Spectatormagazine of what is really going on in the mind of Dominic Cummings deserves close...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Iveagh House might not be so pleased about it.

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Senator Boyhan mentioned the inadequacy of the Government's response to the housing crisis over its period of office, of which this is the fourth budget. Some of the figures in the budget are aggregates, which are great to have, but what do they actually mean? I note that €1.1 billion is being allocated to deliver 11,000 social housing units this year. Unless my maths skills are...

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: There will not be an election.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Can we return to the hydrogen issue? I know that the technology is developing. Is our network capable of dealing with hydrogen? Is it fully polyethylene-lined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: As a component of the natural gas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Does Mr. O'Sullivan have a budget, even notionally, for making the network fully hydrogen capable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Will Mr. O'Sullivan explain in simple terms how he envisages the hydrogen being generated for distribution? How many generation plants would be required? What kind of plants would they be? Would they be big or small? I presume that they would be electricity-driven in the end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: So for blue hydrogen, natural gas is brought in and split into two components. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: One of the components is put underground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Mr. O'Sullivan thinks that two or three stations would be enough to do this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Going back to Deputy Smith's point, where would all that gas come from? Is it shale gas or from the Middle East?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: Is it biogas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: To be clear, Mr. O'Sullivan's vision involves continued prospecting for indigenous fields such as Corrib up to 2050?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: I am with Mr. O'Sullivan. I am not hostile at all.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)

Michael McDowell: I am aware that the Government and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, in particular, are deeply concerned about what is happening in the Brexit negotiations. I do not wish in any sense to pay insufficient attention to that state of affairs. However, I am concerned that within the past week, the President of the United States, in a telephone conversation,...