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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is no one in it. It is in NAMA, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: One is for a building. The Acting Chairman's analogy does not stack up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just wanted to make two points. I am in a dilemma here, because sometimes the precarious nature of a job is its creativity. Within the arts, people like to move, change or travel, to get different experiences, work with different directors or writers and so on. That applies whether they are people doing hair or the main director. The witnesses are right that precarious nature is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a philosophical point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was talking about personal creative choice.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Taoiseach. First, I congratulate him on his office. As a citizen of this country and as an Independent Senator, I feel that Deputy Varadkar fits it very well. I am proud that he is there. I say this because of what I have seen and what I have heard, especially in relation to the area of Brexit, which is a powerful force approaching our country. The Taoiseach has grasped...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Maybe. There is the subtlety of a chainsaw here.I will leave Senators with this thought, which nobody has mentioned, that the most important aspect of the next ten years is how people will grow old in Ireland, how they will age and age well, how they will be safe, be of value, be connected and be regarded when they are old. That is a major issue. It is an issue that an independent Seanad,...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hope springs eternal.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I agree with the Minister of State. The amendment is a bit naive. It presumes that colleges, now to become technological universities, would not have a qualitative educational ethos which would be their underlying focus. There would be thousands of radii from that, whether creative, artistic, cultural, scientific, technological, apprenticeships or whatever. It is indicative in the Bill...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, if it was, the sentence would be a contradiction. Universities about education, educereand educate, to draw out and to gift. That is what they are for. They are not about having a profit. That might happen at postgraduate level. I am not saying it would not be innovative. That is the difference with the entrepreneurial language. I think it is indicative. The qualitative education...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It would be better if we put in the words "qualitative education" because that is what this is about.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not want to make it because it is indicative.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Excuse me. Do not roar at me. It is indicative. It is there in the Bill. It jumps out of most of the sentences in the Bill. The Senator could put in the word "artistic", "free" or other words. The amendment is naive because it confines things. It is confining as opposed to liberating.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is. The Senator thinks that a certain wording or language will give it openness. It will not. The words "qualitative education" will give it any language the Senator wants because that is well-defined.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The wording of the amendment is confining.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is the amendment.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thought, because I was listening to the debate in my room up until a few minutes ago, that one of the reasons we would push the amendments to Report Stage was that we would deal with them then rather than hold the Bill back now. I agree that the amendments are not being accepted now but I thought they would come back on Report Stage.Was that what the other Senators wanted? They were going...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, that was the reason some of the amendments were being semi accepted now but to be looked at again on Report Stage. Am I correct on that?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear what Senator Norris is saying. The microphone is low.