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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: He has explained to me the personal circumstances of the Minister for Justice and Equality and his inability to bilocate on this occasion. The Leader has put this forward as a reason for the debate to be adjourned at 1.30 p.m. The consequence of this is that important issues will not be reached today which I had a significant personal interest in having read. However, I know the House is...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: There is a moral issue here.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: The one group of people who will not be offered 10 cent or 20 cent in the euro is the homeowner whose house is being repossessed. There is a serious moral issue and it is entirely wrong for the Irish State, through a wholly owned bank, to hand over homeowners who are in difficulty, for whatever reason, to people who will gouge them for every last cent and sell their property without offering...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: I ask the Leader to ask the relevant Minister to hesitate and to ask him or herself whether it is appropriate that a State-owned bank throw a load of people to the wolves for profit. It is out of cowardice as they are not able to deal with these difficult cases themselves so they prefer to allow greedy people to pick at the corpse of other people's lives.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Exactly.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: He is a shareholder.

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: He has less important things to do.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: If the Leader repeats that, we will get to 5 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá i dtaobh ár gcomhghleacaí, an Seanadóir Trevor Ó Clochartaigh. Tá sé sa nuachtáin go bhfuil sé ar intinn aige éirigh as oifig mar Sheanadóir. Go pearsanta, ba mhaith liom a rá gur duine gealgháireach, macánta agus cairdiúil é agus guím...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: -----and we decide in this House how we vote.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: We do not succumb to lobbying from outside as to what we say, do or think, or do with our votes or with our mandates in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: There are places in the world where particular interest groups, and particular national interest groups, have immense clout and where people are afraid to speak their minds on issues. In this House I would consider it not merely our right but our duty to consider legislation, and to give it a fair debate, without interference by the representative of any sovereign power. I say that without...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Section 58 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947 provides that where two or more vacancies occur and the Minister is notified of them, two entirely separate elections must take place to fill the vacancies.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: There is nothing wrong with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: Just one per corner.

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Michael McDowell: I move that this House supports Senator Black's Bill and express my support for it. Although I have listened carefully to the Tánaiste, I believe that there is a way of finding a middle ground between the flexibility he seeks on one hand and the principled, correct view expressed in the Bill at its heart. All of us know that it is for the Executive to conduct Irish foreign policy and...