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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I could live with the word "assess".
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Outside of the Cabinet only.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I agree.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I refer the House to the proposed section 44 in our amendment. May I explain the context?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I appreciate that but I want to make one point very clear to the Cathaoirleach. Committee Stage is where this has to be thrashed out. When we get to Report Stage, it will be a speech for and a speech against, followed by a speech for and a speech against, and that will be it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Unless it reverts to Committee Stage, there is no real engagement, just speeches for and against.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I am very cautious of the Report Stage procedure. I do not like it at all. I realise one can recommit to Committee Stage but I would prefer to address all the principles-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I appreciate that but, on the other hand, I am not willing to let go the lead of the dog-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: That is certainly true.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I appreciate that the Minister has indicated a degree of openness of mind on this issue. It is clearly understandable in the context that he ended up leaving the Dáil with a provision in this respect with which he did not enter the Dáil. Subsection (8) of our proposed section 44 refers to the committee constituted by the section for all senior promotional appointments within the...
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I support this Bill and it should be given a Second Reading. It is well-intentioned and addresses an aspect of our current law which needs to be addressed by the Oireachtas. I want to put a number of matters on the record. Firstly, in 2002, the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats programme for Government stated that we would deal with the situation that then existed, that any person...
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: They did.
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Why not, if the Senator believes in it? Why not rerun it?
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Rubbish.
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: That is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: A number of years ago, the Department that occupies the Custom House enacted laws that enabled it to ban bedsits in Dublin. There was a four-year lead-in period for this to take place. Eventually, bedsits became illegal. They were defined as accommodation where there was any question of having to share kitchen or bathroom facilities in any building. The result of the edict from the Custom...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Very dangerous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: Perhaps either the Cathaoirleach or the Leader will explain this. Am I correct in interpreting the Order of Business as meaning that the debate on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill will end two hours after it commences?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I thank the Leader. I just wanted to be sure about that.
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
Michael McDowell: I welcome the Minister. I want to indicate my personal support for this Bill in substance. Whereas one might instinctively hold back on further regulation of the employment relationship, looking internationally across the western world, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, the republican value of having a coherent economic community in which there is not a class of the...