Results 41-60 of 18,436 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----and I am saying this is a disgrace and I am going to bring to the attention of the media what is envisaged in relation to the so-called consideration. There is a picket outside of probable extremists but the people are entitled that their Parliament would not delegate to a committee consideration of a hugely important piece of law-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----and then have this whitewash charter decide what will happen at that committee.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I do not need any assistance. I only need one assistance and that is your silence, Chair. I only need that assistance. I protest most strongly about what is happening. It is wrong. We are turning this Parliament into a rubber-stamp assembly and if anybody wants to look-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----at the recent referendum-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----and what happens to rubber-stamp politics-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----as a result. Unfortunately in this case-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----the people will not be given their chance in a referendum vote.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: But the time has come, Chair, for people----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----in both Houses to stand up for their rights as elected public representatives-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----and to insist-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----this measure is properly-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----considered before it becomes part of our law at constitutional level.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: I wrote to the committee and-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: -----I asked for a private session of the committee to consider what we would do. That is the reasonable thing to do. Instead I get this insult to parliamentary democracy.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: The public will not see any of that, as you well know.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: As you well know, this will be done behind closed doors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Two things occur to me as regards the reduction from seven years to two years. In general terms, I have no problem with it, but are we taking sufficient care to remember people who might be under a disability, whether through youth, mental illness, dementia or anything like that? As regards the two-year period, is there adequate protection for people who might not be in a position to assert...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: Arising out of that, I have in mind people who are the subject of activated living wills and things like that and who might, for instance, have been a partner in a business or whatever. They will not be aware of it, so there has to be a kind of special duty to people in that category in that, obviously, they are not aware of it and that somebody looks at their possible legitimate interest to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: What about getting information out of people? Does CAB have enough powers on that front?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McDowell: If Mr. McMeel or I were a drug dealer and were reputed to have-----