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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: Are employees the subject of a reduction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I thought the whole staff of RTÉ was getting a cut imposed on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: Ms Forbes agreed with Deputy Cullinane that the decision to put out to tender the television licence fee collection system could be described as either unsustainable or kicking it down the road. I note the Department has stated there are difficulties with using the local property tax model because the landlord is usually the owner and is liable for it. With a bit of thought, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: Is there any reason the committee's report was rejected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: The idea that it is too complicated to work out how the Revenue could collect this just does not stand up to reason. There is a Finance Bill every year that deals with loopholes. Massive legislation is composed within months. I suggest this is a deliberate choice not to face up to this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: On a point of order, I want to clarify that I did not pursue the matter with Ms Cronin because I had forgotten that she is not entitled to speak on the merits of a Government policy. That is why we should have Ministers in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I just wanted to make that clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: That is another 20,000 votes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, as proposed by the Leader, that the debate on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill should not conclude today and that the matter should not be decided by a single question, as proposed by the Leader.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: Yes, the debate should adjourn, if it has not concluded.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: On the proposal to use the guillotine in this House, it is notable that it appears to come in the wake of events last night where, unfortunately, due to the absence of Government Senators, certain amendments that the Minister wished to oppose were made and amendments that he wished to make were not made. It is more serious than that. This Bill is not desired to be passed by the great...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I have.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I have.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I want to make it clear that, as far as I am concerned, the one thing that unites the people who will vote to guillotine this Bill today is they are the same people who went to the Irish people and asked them to abolish this Chamber. The one thing about all the Members of the Oireachtas of those parties who voted for that legislation is the great majority of them knew it was a terrible...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: -----and only the Irish people stopped them from doing the wrong thing.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: It is a great irony that the forces in this House who, against their own conscience, voted to abolish this House are now saying today they want to guillotine a Bill which they in conscience do not believe in.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I never said he forced them.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I never suggested that he did.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: I said he spoke about an organisation being captured by one individual and he has done that to all of the sheep in this House.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Michael McDowell: People coming in from hospital beds-----