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Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Michael McDowell: I strongly support the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Michael McDowell: Not agreed.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I do.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: A little.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I welcome the Minister to the House. This is a very important Bill. Sadly, this this House has got to the stage where contributions are limited to five minutes, which is inadequate. W.B. Yeats’s great speech “We are no petty people” would have been ruled out after about two paragraphs, given how we now operate things. I have huge problems with this Bill. I want to...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I welcome the Minister to the House. I listened to the contribution made by Senator Mullen and I saw a lot of common sense in what he said. I do not think he wanted to be pessimistic but realistic about where we are. It is becoming clear we will struggle significantly to comply with the 2030 carbon reduction targets. That is not a happy situation because once a public perception develops...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I do not say that.

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: Not in Athenry.

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: Will that happen?

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: It is not impossible, but will it happen?

Seanad: Neurology Nurses: Motion (22 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: It is an honour to second the motion that Senator Boyhan has brought before the House. I wish to say a few words to re-emphasise what he said. This is not point-scoring against the present Government . This is looking at a deficit that exists in the health system in Ireland. We are not moving this motion in a negative or carping spirit at all. We are endorsing the campaign for an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I compliment Deputy Cian O'Callaghan on bringing forward this legislation and pay tribute to the Department of Justice for having an open mind as to whether it would go with it or do something else. I might put a few points before the committee for consideration. What we are dealing with is, clearly, a first cousin of prostitution and pimping, whereby somebody is induced to provide sexual...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: As one of the co-sponsors of this Bill, I thank Senator Norris for his initiative in bringing this legislation before the House. I also thank those who inspired him to do so, in particular the Mountjoy residents' association and other conservationists in Dublin. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. A few points have occurred to me regarding the conservation of our heritage. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with the French Ambassador (15 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I was going to ask about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with the French Ambassador (15 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: The Chairman has asked it now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with the French Ambassador (15 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: No. That is all. I would just like commentary on that. Does it mean that Crimea will de factoremain Russian? It was Russian until 1954. Are we talking about requiring Russia to evacuate all of the eastern region it now controls? Is that what humiliation involves? I am not being in any way dismissive of what is being said, but if we are to have a pragmatic solution and say Putin is not...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 10: In page 9, line 14, to delete “and”. Tá fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit ar ais go dtí an Teach seo. In January 1998, two applications for wind farm developments from two separate developers, Saorgus Energy Limited and B9 Energy Services Limited, were made to Galway County Council, seeking permission to erect 46 wind turbines on three...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I want to briefly respond to what Senator Higgins quoted from the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union. I fully accept that you cannot have a situation where people benefit from ignoring the law and they get a slap on the wrists and that is it. However, there has been a poverty of imagination as to how we should deal with the decision of the Court of Justice of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 11: In page 9, line 17, to delete “application.”,” and substitute the following: “application, (f) be accompanied by an independent review of the environmental, financial and community impact of the existing development or the decommissioning of the existing development on the lands under consideration.”.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: There are two things of note. I have been informed by a text, which is an amazing thing, that Galway County Council, on 25 April 2022 passed a resolution on the following terms: "Galway County Council calls on the Government to direct the ESB to recommence operation of the Derrybrien wind farm and in doing so, provide whatever legislative requirements that are necessary to ensure it may not...