Results 2,021-2,040 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am inclined to agree with the Senator. I taught for 34 years at third level and it was always a part of the third level process that the president of the student union sat on academic councils. Perhaps I am wrong but I thought it was a prerequisite that the president of the student union would sit on the academic council, whatever about the governing body, which is different. There were...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a little conspiratorial. The likes and dislikes of a president of a university as an educator regarding his own academic council would not prevent student representation by the president of the students' union. One might say about anybody that one did not like him or him but that one tolerated him or her, just as I might tolerate the Senator in the Seanad. What he suggests is not...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do but I could suggest I did not.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a conspiratorial argument. I agree that there should be some student representative on an academic council. How we bring it about in the Bill is another day's work. In my experience, whether the president of the students' union was liked, he or she was the student representative voted in by the students and he or she sat on the academic council.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does Senator Gerard P. Craughwell accept that a governing body, with its many representatives — external, internal, administrative, academic and student, as provided for in the legislation — has a right to decide how many representatives of the student body it should have on the academic council? It is the experience to do so. Someone's dictating that students not be...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will tell the Senator-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am a firm believer in the idea of doubt. It shows a tremendous intelligence. Absolute surety is probably a male prerogative whereas doubt leaves matters open. Having spent 34 years on the campuses of Ireland, I know that governing bodies do not dictate. There are many representatives on governing bodies, including student union representatives, postgraduates, etc., and I believe there...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, we cannot hear what the Senator is saying.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am very genuine about that.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are well able to fill his space.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think the Lee Harvey Oswald analogy-----
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: You said it.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I fear the Senator is trying to start a riot here.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator's party sold the major one.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Roscommon.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to make a few observations because this is not necessarily my area of expertise. Eir's shareholders are designed to get out every few years and renegotiate. I am not surprised by that because when Eir plagiarised the murmuration of starlings to use in its advertising I knew we were dealing with people who really could negotiate. The ESB is a very well run company and very well...
- Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to make some observations about the Bill generally and I am sorry that they do not speak to the amendment. First, there is not enough included about the registrar. A registrar is an academic reference point for ethos and standards and he or she should be a member of the governing authority. I do not think that is in the Bill. There is also no reference to the university secretary...