Results 17,081-17,100 of 18,737 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I think it was a clerical error and that they were talking about pine needles, not trees.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I agree with Senators Ardagh and Boyhan about what is happening in Dublin. Dublin City Council is now spending the bones of €1 billion. It has 6,000 employees and has outsourced most of its contractual activities. The circumstances in which the manager can effectively confront the elected representatives and dispute their budget on the basis that the Custom House has cut back the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: Because it was too high to start with.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: It was 15% off last year also.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: Your election manifesto said it would be abolished.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: We will mention it next Tuesday.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I agree completely with Senator O'Sullivan. The trivialisation and denigration of politics that flows from personalised attacks on individuals is damaging and corrosive of the whole legislative process and the democratic process.People may have made mistakes in the past and do stupid things; as far as I am concerned, they do stupid things every day on social media. I really think we should...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is stuck.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I fully understand that is the case, but I am concerned about the Government's attitude.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: Not to the Bill.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 7, line 10, after “of” where it firstly occurs to insert “advisory”. Amendment No. 1 is in the names of myself, Senators Boyhan, Craughwell and Marie-Louise O'Donnell.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: The purpose of this amendment is to insert into the Long Title of the Bill the word "advisory". In general terms, not too much attention is paid to the close test of the Long Title of a Bill. On this occasion, it is important because claims have been made for this legislation by one Member of Government that this will take the appointment of judges out of the hands of politicians and hand...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: If the Chair is ruling that they be taken together-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: -----the same logic applies to the amendment No. 3 in my name.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: It is not the same thing but it is similar.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: Yes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I did say that amendments Nos. 1 and 3 were similar. They are, of course, slightly different in that amendment No. 3 refers to line 13 of the administrative reprint on page 7, "To enable, through other procedures, the making of recommendations in respect of appointments to senior judicial offices that do not fall within the remit of the foregoing body". The amendment is to insert the word...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: It is.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: The Senator will be able to make his point.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 2:In page 7, line 12, after “be” to insert “a minority of the”.