Results 1,361-1,380 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Has the Ballymun Job Centre had an answer to these suggestions and evaluations on the part of the Department? Did Mr. Creedon present them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Has Mr. Creedon had an answer to what he has presented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think that is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is also partly that, as people point out to us all the time, we are not really operating the Nordic model. Mr. Creedon has a very good point. Pilots are very good. It is a very good and wonderful use of resources. Creativity, action, outreach and tangents were put into it. Now it has come to an end. Did Mr. Creedon not make a good point? We need to take those tangents and all the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We can pick targets.
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is always great to speak on the arts, given that, as Senator Ó Murchú said, we get so few opportunities to do so at any level here. I was on the board of the National Concert Hall for two terms.
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator. Given what happened a few boards later, they should bring us back. I was on the board in the early 1990s and into the 2000s. I was the only dissenting voice on a board of 15 members against the National Concert Hall moving. At that time, there was the beginning of the sloshing around of money. We were going to move from Fenian Street to a green field site. I was the...
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a very good place at the time. There was a tremendous urgency about it, like when Dublin City University became a university in the late 1980s. We had a great outreach programme, which other cultural institutes might look to. We were the first board to get the National Symphony Orchestra to get into buses, trains and cars and go to places such as Sligo, Mayo and Galway. It is not...
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move:That Seanad Éireann notes the ratification by Ireland in 1999 of the United Nations Principles for Older Persons which include: - Article 6: “Older persons should be able to reside at home for as long as possible”; - Article 12: “Older persons should have access to health care to help them to maintain or regain the optimum level of physical, mental and...
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear Senator Gilroy-----
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----and I want to hear him.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senators O'Donnell and van Turnhout.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Bravo.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Only 50%.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear the Senator.