Results 101-120 of 18,749 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: Fine.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: I deny that.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: I respect your officials. I think their masters are being bought.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: It is not shameful.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: A certain party refused to allow me to do it. I will name some day in this House the people who influenced your party to prevent any reform.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: It is nothing to do with the Minister of State's officials and he should not hide behind them. I respect the officials in his Department, and I respect their judgment. I do not believe for one minute that they favour this kind of nonsense.
- Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Michael McDowell: Vótáil.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: I am opposed to the Order of Business as proposed by the Leader. To guillotine the Planning and Development Bill in the manner proposed is a crass insult to the House. The Bill costs a layperson €71 to purchase. It was brought through Dáil Éireann and into this House, we were given two days to consider, I believe, 664 amendments to it, and Committee Stage was guillotined...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: I do not know why Opposition Senators should even bother attending the debate. We have reached the point where their views are being rubbished. This House is the ultimate rubber stamp. This is being done by the Leader. No notice was given to the leaders and Whips that this guillotine would happen. There has been no consultation of any kind whatsoever. The first that I, as Whip of our...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: I am sorry, but------
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: I am going to be a little bit disorderly. The Cathaoirleach knows that I respect the Chair-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----but the time has come for this House to stand up for itself-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----and the Constitution and to say “No” to all of this. I will end with this threat. The House depends on co-operation to run. The Leader has forfeited co-operation today. She will have votes on everything and no co-operation if she goes ahead with this.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: I ask the Leader to reconsider the barbarous abuse of parliamentary procedure in which she is engaging. It is all very well to discuss other issues today, and they are important-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----but this House is being treated disgracefully.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: There have never been fewer members of the Defence Forces in the history of independent Ireland than today.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Michael McDowell: You and I are on the same wavelength but-----