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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am against the vote for those aged under 18 years. The Bill will not get my vote. I will not circumvent that. I am against it and I will not be going to a committee or believing in committees. I advise the students to stay away from politics and get on with their lives because they can create their lives quicker than they think when they are over 18 years of age.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was speaking to the section.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Sinn Féin thinks I have no sense of independence. I am not going to stay and listen to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: This morning's edition of "Today with Sean O'Rourke" contained one of the most profound and heart wrenching interviews with a young doctor and her husband. She outlined a story which I will not go through because the point I want to make to Senators arises from it.The story related to the loss of her child at 28 weeks. The child was not going to survive outside the womb and she went to...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It does.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does the Cathaoirleach think it is right that the Leader of the Seanad has to answer accusations from a Senator who is not here and that we go over time because out of his deference-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They were serious accusations about the navy and the Army.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: A Chathaoirligh, the people who do stick to time-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think it is very unfair that Senators sit here and wait, with the grace of the Leader, while other Senators who have actually accused the Government of things that are possibly not true are not here to have them answered.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Mr. David McRedmond, CEO of An Post, for turning the company around to a profit through its stamps, parcels and the post office generally.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I also congratulate him on the development of community banking, which is ongoing. We have had many discussions in here about the importance of a post office in locales, villages, towns and regions in Ireland. I consider the post office to be a place of communication, resource, connection and engagement for people in cities as well as in country towns. His success proves that he was a very...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Excuse me, Senator. I did not hear his cultural heartbeat here this morning.

Seanad: Public Service Broadcasting and Social Media Regulation: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for his paper on public service broadcasting and social media regulation. It cannot be easy for the Minister to sit and listen to Senators, especially today, as the Minister has other things on is mind. It shows something about the Minister's courage and tenacity that he can sit with dignity and do this when he must face other issues later...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the report by Helen Boaden on RTÉ's symphony and concert orchestras entitled Ensuring a Sustainable Future. However, I do not think that is really the problem. In looking through the report, RTÉ talks about how funding the orchestras presents a challenge to its financial circumstances and the fact that, as the national broadcaster, it is legally required to maintain...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----and that they are the pinnacle of what other communities are trying to do through the power, elevation, energy and vitality of music. We cannot argue whether there should be this, that or the other. They must be part of our cultural heritage and musical life - our expressive life.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If they are to be in RTÉ then they are to get the money to be ring-fenced and developed so that the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra can travel. At the moment the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra cannot travel and it has been reduced to 68 players. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra cannot do a lot of things because it does not have the money. It is an outrage that we cannot argue for them on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----that in the leaving certificate we give 25 points for mathematics but we will not do it for music as a subject.I am trying to reverse that argument and come at it from a completely different angle.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I attended a conference on Saturday called HeadSpace2018 at Trinity College. It was about how people should use creativity as they grow older, and how creativity can hold onto elders in a way they should be held onto and how their quality of life as they get older can depend more on creativity than on finance and security. In the middle of it - there is a reason I am telling this story - a...

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: When I was in school there was conversion around the way we thought. Shame and sin took precedence over affection and loving. It was all about shame and guilt. Our idea of the Christ or God was to do with pain, purgatory and limbo. Our history was confined to how we were affected as opposed to what we emanated. I do not like the term because it was not until I got to university that I...