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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b), I request that the division be taken again by other than electronic means.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: It is not agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Two things occur to me as regards the reduction from seven years to two years. In general terms, I have no problem with it, but are we taking sufficient care to remember people who might be under a disability, whether through youth, mental illness, dementia or anything like that? As regards the two-year period, is there adequate protection for people who might not be in a position to assert...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Arising out of that, I have in mind people who are the subject of activated living wills and things like that and who might, for instance, have been a partner in a business or whatever. They will not be aware of it, so there has to be a kind of special duty to people in that category in that, obviously, they are not aware of it and that somebody looks at their possible legitimate interest to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: What about getting information out of people? Does CAB have enough powers on that front?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: If Mr. McMeel or I were a drug dealer and were reputed to have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----a numbered account somewhere and it was likely someone knew my numbered account. Has CAB sufficient powers to hunt down information of that kind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I am talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: My right-hand man knows I have an account and CAB wants to know from him where I have the account, whether that is Dubai or somewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Not all barristers are in that position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: It says a search warrant can have ancillary power.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I have in mind a person who is not being searched or is not in a place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I will ask the Minister first about persons coming to Ireland who will be affected by the border procedure. If somebody comes to Ireland as a transit passenger through, say, Paris, is ours the first country that has to deal with him or her under EU law, and will the border procedure apply to him or her? Second, if somebody comes in here from, say, the United Kingdom at an unspecified time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Is that the case for a transit passenger? If I am coming from, say, Albania and my plan is to go to Ireland and I go via Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, does it apply to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I am just trying to get to the practicalities of this. If somebody arrives at Dublin Airport, with or without documents, and says they are an Albanian, say, looking for asylum in Ireland, do any of these border procedures have any application to them if they have arrived on a flight from Paris, Berlin, London or wherever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Am I to take it that a transit passenger in Paris, say, goes through Schengen procedures before getting on a flight to Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Nobody will get to Ireland via those airports unless he or she has gone through a Schengen screening. Is that it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I will ask the Minister about the regulations. We discussed this earlier in private session. Do any of them have direct effect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Do any of the suite of six regulations have direct effect that does not require primary legislation?