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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: He is a great man for putting on his waders and sorting things out.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: The decade ends next year, by the way.

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I support this Bill, the concept of community rating and whatever is necessary to strengthen community rating. The Leader mentioned on the Order of Business that car insurance premiums were coming down. I have a different experience. I had €150 extra loaded onto mine for no reason. When I checked it out with my broker, the broker said he would ring up the insurance company, and it...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I support the amendment. I welcome the pharmaceutical assistants to the House today. I welcome also the Minister's decision to accept the amendment. Finally, I commend my colleague at the Bar, Ms Anita Finucane, on her excellent drafting.

Seanad: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: The Minister's approach is reasonable in the circumstances.

Seanad: Civil Law (Costs in Probate Matters) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I totally agree with the Minister's amendment. It strikes a fair balance between the pre-existing presumption in favour of a share out from the estate on the one hand and a totally exclusionary rule on the other. Giving the Judiciary the right to make a ruling which does not follow the event in the case, on equitable grounds, as long as it is stated in their order, is totally reasonable. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, as proposed by the Leader, that the debate on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill should not conclude today and that the matter should not be decided by a single question, as proposed by the Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: Yes, the debate should adjourn, if it has not concluded.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: On the proposal to use the guillotine in this House, it is notable that it appears to come in the wake of events last night where, unfortunately, due to the absence of Government Senators, certain amendments that the Minister wished to oppose were made and amendments that he wished to make were not made. It is more serious than that. This Bill is not desired to be passed by the great...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I have.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I have.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I want to make it clear that, as far as I am concerned, the one thing that unites the people who will vote to guillotine this Bill today is they are the same people who went to the Irish people and asked them to abolish this Chamber. The one thing about all the Members of the Oireachtas of those parties who voted for that legislation is the great majority of them knew it was a terrible...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: -----and only the Irish people stopped them from doing the wrong thing.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: It is a great irony that the forces in this House who, against their own conscience, voted to abolish this House are now saying today they want to guillotine a Bill which they in conscience do not believe in.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I never said he forced them.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I never suggested that he did.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: I said he spoke about an organisation being captured by one individual and he has done that to all of the sheep in this House.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: People coming in from hospital beds-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: Yes. Deals.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Michael McDowell: It was four.