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- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: I suggest this is a straw man that the Leader has put up to knock down.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: The Government's terms of reference.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: On a point of order, will Senator Norris allow me to correct the record?
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: I will not. The Minister of State has accused Senator Higgins of being untruthful to this House.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Yes, it has nothing to do with Senator Norris. In the Dáil the Taoiseach said the following:My view, which is not the view of Government because we have not discussed it at Cabinet yet, is that I have reservations about it on several levels. I referred to those reservations already in this Chamber. The first of them is that it would diminish the role of councillors and local authority...
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: It is being used.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: It was done.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Reference was made to the making of regulations.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: It is getting worse.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Making regulations.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Making regulations-----
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Well done.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: That is rubbish.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Postal vote, ordinary post.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: Where are the Senator's figures?
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: They are not.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: The Senator has not read the Bill.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (24 Sep 2019)
Michael McDowell: On a point of order, it states that if there is an electoral commission-----