Results 14,681-14,700 of 18,734 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Order of Business. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: Was the Deputy asleep? He should take some pep pills.
- Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: It is very arrogant of me.
- Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: He is not being charged by the State, it is a tribunal matter.
- Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: I do not want to be provocative or confrontational. I published the heads of this Bill two years ago. The Bill has been the subject of extensive public discussion, including preliminary discussion before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Law Reform. It was the subject of a Human Rights Commission report and was then brought to Seanad Ãireann. It went through five Stages...
- Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: At that stage, the Opposition parties asked to postpone the holding of Report Stage until they had an opportunity to discuss the Morris tribunal report. That was the sequence of events. We are now in a position to get this legislation on the Statute Book so that the implementation oversight body, chaired by Senator Maurice Hayes, can ensure that reform of the Garda SÃochána gets going and...
- Infrastructure Programme. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: Or the odd culvert.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: Deputy Rabbitte is the boy who left his satchel at home.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: That is an outrageous allegation. There is no substance in it. The Deputy has no principles.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: It is like the question "When did you stop beating your wife?". That is an outrageous allegation.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: Those are wild allegations.
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: There is no record in the immigration division of my Department of an application for an extension of permission to remain having been received from the person concerned. The person in question should apply to the immigration division at 13-14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 outlining her difficulties, and the manner in which she proposes to maintain herself in the State if her permission to remain is...
- Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: The position is that the persons concerned, a woman and her three children, arrived in the State in November 2001 and claimed asylum. Their asylum applications was examined, in turn, by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, both of whom concluded that the persons concerned did not meet the criteria for recognition as a refugee....
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: As the Deputy was informed in my reply to her previous parliamentary question on this subject, "the central tenet of the visa process in this State has been and continues to be that the onus is at all times on the applicant to satisfy my Department that it would be appropriate to issue them with a visa. In the case of the applications in question, the applicants failed to do so." With regard...
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received by the citizenship section of my Department from the person referred to by the Deputy on 25 February 2003. Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 as amended, provides that an applicant for naturalisation must have a period of one year's continuous residence in the State before the date of the application and...
- Written Answers — Child Care Places: Child Care Places (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 461 and 462 together. The Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 1996 and (Amendment) Regulations 1997, which give effect to the provisions of Part VII of the Child Care Act 1991 provide for notification to, and inspection by, the Health Service Executive of pre-school child care services. The regulations apply to pre-schools, playgroups, day nurseries,...
- Written Answers — Prison Staff: Prison Staff (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: As you are aware, the rejection by ballot of the proposal for organisational change in the Irish Prison Service resulted in the closure of the Curragh place of detention as a cost reduction measure. This possibility had been clearly flagged to staff for some time prior to the vote on the negotiated deal. Following the closure of the Curragh place of detention, 65 staff, of mixed grades, were...
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: The person concerned arrived in the State in December 2001 and claimed asylum. He was requested by registered letter to attend the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner for interview on 15 May 2002 pursuant to his application for refugee status in the State. He failed to present on that occasion. A follow up letter issued to him by registered post rescheduling his interview for 15...
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: The person concerned arrived in the State on 25 April, 2003 and applied for asylum. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, as amended, he was informed by letter dated 16 May 2005 that the...
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (21 Jun 2005)
Michael McDowell: The person in question was refused permission to operate a business in the State on the grounds that she did not meet the capital investment and employment requirements of the business permission scheme. I am not satisfied, on the information supplied in the application, that the service provided is specialised to the extent that would warrant an abrogation of the normal requirements of the...