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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As the Chairman knows, there is a matter I would like to raise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Gabh mo leithscéal, níl a lán Gaeilge agam ach táim á fhóghlaim agus á labhairt. Bhí mé ábalta an Ghaeilge a labhairt when I was very young, but as everyone was saying, without the use of it, one loses it. One has the language but one does not have the conjunctions and one cannot put it together. If the witnesses do not mind, I will speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: All of our witnesses seem to have very militant voices like our Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The witness can answer in Irish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is no translation coming through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My point was that we are learning while the group is doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What funding did the company receive this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Ó Coinn should not row back from his argument at all. His argument stood and it was excellent. It should be on par, not decreasing. I would not row back from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is fine as Gaeilge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was very impressed by the Gweedore example that was given. However, music is a universal language and that sometimes takes over from the fact that the oral arts, literature, the speaking of our language and the understanding of the spoken word and the work the Chair mentioned is equally as important. It is fantastic that the witnesses have done so much work on that, that people are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Chair, can I just make one point? I was interested in what the Údarás was saying about entrepreneurship and that synergy. Perhaps Mr. Ó Tuairisc is familiar with this where a new theatre company such as Fíbín arrives and is supported and where the loss of two or three jobs might be avoided. The loss of three jobs, because the Fíbín application was turned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are restricted by the Arts Council anyway because they only have the €65 million and they have to give it out to 1,000 different organisations. I do not mean that in a bad way. They are restricted and should be receiving €120 million funding so that we could create all of those projects. In the meantime one cannot say that business or entrepreneurship cannot have an...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I join my colleagues in condemning the murderous actions of Israel over the weekend. Senator David Norris is right about using drones to kill the Palestinians. I had the privilege of visiting Jenin, Hebron and Ramallah a year ago. I think it was the greatest education the Seanad has offered me, given what I saw and who I met. The Palestinians are a great people, a brilliant people, but a...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The new deal for post offices has been endorsed by 80% of postmasters and postmistresses. Of the 1,189 post offices, 584 voted in favour. Did any of the postmasters and postmistresses seek legal advice on what they were signing? Incidentally, the documents they signed are not legally binding. They were offered a new contract, which involves taking an exit package of €15,000 or...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They have effectively gone from rural Ireland but we need not worry because the post offices will do the job for them. What job? That is my question for this morning. The post office is going to bolster the immoral failing banks. They tried this in the UK. The UK wanted to bail out the post offices because the banks were making all the profits. Why can we not have the Kiwi community...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know I have gone on a little. What has happened to promote the Private Members' motion signed up to by 158 people in the Dáil on the Kiwi banking system? I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I want the Minister to come in. I would like to ask him to explain these questions. I heard the Minister speaking in the Dáil last evening to Deputy Harty. He did not explain...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, to come in today.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, I do. There were 158 votes in the Dáil for it.