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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Michael McDowell: I share with the Cathaoirleach a devotion to Marty Whelan and the other great presenters on Lyric FM. On one occasion, he recounted a story about a three-legged dog going into a saloon in America. The bartender said, "What are you doing here? We don't serve dogs". The dog replied, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw". That always stuck with me. On a serious note, the Joint...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Michael McDowell: Sometimes the dog eats it, though.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...to be Chief Justice and that takes three months with interviews, etc., and that if that person is already a member of the Supreme Court, it takes another three months to fill that position. This is a dog's dinner of an approach in terms of legislation. When I was Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and when others were Minister for Justice, and others were Attorney General, one...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...-month selection process and another three-month process will be started to fill any vacancies it creates. It is simply ridiculous and indefensible.I will not put it any further than that. This is a dog's dinner of a Bill. It is not best practice internationally. The Minister mentioned European this and European that. I want to say one thing about Europe. In Europe judges become...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...I wonder about the absence of proportionality that 20 years after all this was done - we are now in 2022 and the work was carried out in 2003 - somebody would actually ask where the common sense in all this is. Is the environmental tail wagging the environmental dog in the sense that a purist view of this is being allowed to produce a result which flies in the face of what most people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...an officer too in the Defence Forces, although a non-commissioned officer in the FCA. I have something else in common with him in that until recently his family had the benefit of an assistance dog called Duke and I am the proprietor of the second Duke. Duke has, in fact, resisted being kidnapped by Frances Fitzgerald on the Triangle in Ranelagh. All of this was recorded in Miriam...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Michael McDowell: ...with the Bill. I pointed out to the Minister that in the last Seanad we had a Bill that had left Dáil Éireann in a shambles and arrived up in the Seanad. It was called by a certain person a "dog's dinner" of a Bill. As a result of that it was debated at great length, as the Minister of State will recall, over a long period of time. The reason was, there was a flaw in the Bill...

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

Michael McDowell: Is the Bill no longer a dog's dinner-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...looking at this again on Committee Stage. They came in here and said "No" and objected. They said it was all wrong to recommit it. They voted down a motion to recommit this amendment. Now there is another dog's dinner being put into the law, whereby an American attorney can be appointed, a French notaireor advocate can be appointed, or an equivalent anywhere in Europe can be appointed...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...has been debated at length in this House.There are few points that should be put on the record of this House in that context. The Bill came to this House in what the Attorney General described as dog's dinner condition and so the Government could not override this House and deem it to be law. The Government has been effectively afflicted by the fact that it has to get the agreement of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)

Michael McDowell: When this section was presented to this House it was part of the dog's dinner that the Attorney General referred to because it was proposed in the original form in which it came to this House that where somebody who was appointed to judicial office had not been recommended by the commission, the notice of appointment would also include in Iris Oifigiúila reasoned explanation of the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...published the following about this Bill:The proposed composition of the Judicial Appointments Commission, which - according to the amended proposal [not the first version of this Bill - the dog's dinner that came to us from another place - but this Bill, as now amended] - would comprise only five judges out of 17 (including a lay chairperson 'accountable to the Oireachtas') would not be in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...everything that is said in this House. From the media exposure over the Christmas break it seems he is quite happy to fire off volleys at those who oppose his legislation but like Mrs. Mulligan's dog, he is a devil to give it but cannot take it. I want to draw the Minister's attention to-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...now to be filled by people who have not been vetted on their competence, character, health, temperament or anything else. A certain officeholder - I will spare his blushes - said the Bill was a dog's dinner as it emerged in Dáil Éireann. Surely this is the greatest dog's dinner of all.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...to people applying for the post of Chief Justice, President of the High Court or President of the Court of Appeal but will apply to everything else. Surely this must emphasise that the Bill is a dog's dinner. It does not make sense. We are being asked to pass things that are incoherent and which cannot be defended as a matter of common sense. We are being told by the Minister that he...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...as important and just as crucial to the operation of the State and the operation of the constitutional order as anybody else is. Therefore, I want it to be clearly understood that I am not being a dog in the manger about this; my objection lies in the Judiciary being asked to engage in a beauty contest before this group when there is no need for it. Let us take for instance the Supreme...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: I appreciate that but, on the other hand, I am not willing to let go the lead of the dog-----

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: The old dog-----

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Michael McDowell: While I was listening to the debate, and I profess no knowledge of the subject matter, I was looking at the property supplement in The Irish Timestoday and as dogs are being mentioned by name I want to say there is a particular dog called Otto whose owners are selling their house in Rathgar for €1.45 million and one of the features of the house in leafy Dublin 6 is that there is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...are entitled to nominate somebody for the position. The Constitution also states that an outgoing President can renominate himself without any such formalities so it is undemocratic to do a dog-in-a-manger act and prevent people from standing by not using the nomination powers we are given as Members of the Oireachtas to ensure there is a contest. Sinn Féin has at least 20 seats in...