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Politician · Senator · 27th Seanad

Michael McDowell

Unaffiliated

Michael McDowell has 4 declared interests in the Register of Members' Interests, 1 matched to a CRO company. Michael McDowell is named in 543 lobbying returns on the Register of Lobbying.

Constituency / panel
National University of Ireland
Membership
2025-01-29 → current
Committees
5 current, 1 ended — Seanad Select Committee on EU Scrutiny and Transparency; Committee on Members' Interests of Seanad Éireann; …
4
Declared items
1
CRO-matched interests
0
Awards to declared companies
543
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
0
SIPO donation records
76 of 222 divisions
34%
Vote participation

Votes

Every recorded division of the Seanad while Michael McDowell was a member, as published by the Houses of the Oireachtas. A division is a vote taken by calling the roll. Each row opens the division on oireachtas.ie. The record shows how someone voted, not why.

Download CSV 16 rows, with the filters applied
42
Tá (yes)
34
Níl (no)
0
Staon (abstained)
222
Divisions held
34%
Voted in

Not voting can mean illness, leave, ministerial or committee duties, or sitting in the chair. The record does not say why. Counted from 13 Feb 2025; 146 not voted in.

Votes by year

  • 202644 of 11126 Tá · 18 Níl
  • 202532 of 11116 Tá · 16 Níl

Vote history

A bill is usually voted on in two kinds of division. Amendment put is a vote on a proposed change to the bill or motion; Question put is the vote on the bill or motion itself, as it then stands. Two rows can therefore share a title: the count beside each result and the official record show which vote was which. The record does not publish the amendment’s wording here.

  • Tá (yes)
  • 2025
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DateDivisionVoteResultOfficial record
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost13 Tá · 30 Níl
Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost12 Tá · 27 Níl
Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost12 Tá · 27 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost14 Tá · 28 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost15 Tá · 27 Níl
Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee StageAmendment putTá (yes)Lost14 Tá · 27 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost15 Tá · 35 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost11 Tá · 21 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost14 Tá · 27 Níl
Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)Amendment putTá (yes)Lost14 Tá · 26 Níl
Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining StagesAmendment putTá (yes)Lost14 Tá · 33 Níl
Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee StageAmendment putTá (yes)Lost6 Tá · 39 Níl
Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second StageAmendment to amendment putTá (yes)Lost16 Tá · 26 Níl
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report StageAmendment putTá (yes)Lost19 Tá · 26 Níl
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report StageAmendment putTá (yes)Lost18 Tá · 26 Níl
Special Education Provision: MotionQuestion put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to."Tá (yes)Carried36 Tá · 14 Níl