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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: What happened in respect of Northern Ireland? That question has still not been addressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I have one question for Mr. Clancy before we break. I want to understand it before we come back. If Repak has a shipload of tyres going to Turkey, Korea, China or wherever, does Repak pay them for the load or do they pay Repak for the load?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: The load is sitting in some port ready to go out. Who pays whom for taking it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: Where a ship comes in from South Korea - I presume it is South Korea-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: -----and a pile of tyres are put on to it, who pays whom for that? Do they pay the Irish or do the Irish pay them for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: They are sitting on the dock and somebody puts them into a ship. Who pays? Does the cheque come to us or do we pay a cheque to somebody?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: Have we to pay for it to go out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: That is all I want to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I have one factual question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: The point was made earlier by one of the witnesses, and I have forgotten by whom exactly, that truckers' tyres, which are commercial tyres, are not the subject of being dumped throughout the country and that it is car tyres that are being dumped. Is this accepted? The point was made that one does not find truck tyres up on the Featherbeds or wherever. Therefore, I go back to the €11...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I did not receive an answer to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: My question was on the dumping of truck tyres. Is somebody not listening over there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: They are difficult to manage but there is no waste. I see.

Seanad: Future of Europe: Statements (12 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I am very grateful for the opportunity to participate in this afternoon's proceedings and I have had the opportunity of considering the Minister of State's statement. I am very pleased by its content and tone. The debate on Europe in Ireland has been polarised into a very unreal one between those who have always been opposed to Ireland's membership of the EU and have always sought to get a...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (11 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this subject, I also welcome the Minister. I accept fully what he says about the requirement in current circumstances to remain at the level of generality for fear of compromising delicate negotiations which are in train. Arising from the remarks of Senator Mark Daly, it seems that there are several issues of which we should be conscious. First, it is...

Seanad: Eighth Report of Convention on the Constitution: Motion (11 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I was one of the people who participated as a guest speaker at the Constitutional Convention in Malahide when all of this started. When I got there, all of the dice were already heavily loaded in favour of this being the outcome of the convention. Papers had been put before the delegates by people who were interested in social and economic rights being put into the Constitution. Even...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I take the opportunity on behalf of myself and my fellow members of the Independent group to express condolences to the members of the family of the late Liam Cosgrave, iar Thaoiseach. Many words have been spoken about him since his death and some of them have been well publicised, but there were aspects of Liam Cosgrave which I think were not sufficiently appreciated by the Irish people and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I welcome Mr. Kiely, Mr. Malone and Ms Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin here today, and Mr. McCaffrey as well. On the question of advertising a number of issues arise. Sky is doing a lot of Irish advertising. Will the witnesses elaborate to the committee on the effect of Sky being able to use Irish advertising in the context of non-Irish channels, some of which, as far as I can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I find myself at variance with Deputy Dooley. I am on the opposite side of this. RTE has financial problems and they must be solved. The idea that one part of the resolution is for RTE to tap into the pay TV platforms in Ireland and get an extra bite at the cherry, after receiving over €160 from every taxpayer in the country, is completely unacceptable. It is a question of double...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McDowell: I think we have to take on board the last point which was made. There is an obligation to carry channels and an entitlement to pay, but there is no resolution system provided by statute. We forget that under copyright law in respect of recorded music, for instance, there is a system of working out what royalties are payable. There is a mandatory system whereby one can use recorded music...