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Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Jun 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I appreciate the Minister's response but it is extremely important to have this on the record because, although I know that it cannot be inserted into the Bill, the records must come under the remit of the National Archives. It must be thought of in that way. There is an urgent need to bring it forward under the National Archives Act. I know it cannot be inserted into the Bill but I wished...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was privileged to be part of the Bill. Senator Colm Burke led the way legally, parliamentarily and in every other way, language-wise, with the Bill.I learned a significant amount. The Minister is correct that Senator Burke, among others, has been waiting for two years for the Bill to be progressed. In the meantime, I wrote a big report for the Government on dying, death and bereavement...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to congratulate Senator Colm Burke because it is his Bill and we were privileged to be part of it. I thank him for including me. There were some marvellous speeches made on Second Stage, which ignited the Bill and encouraged the Government to prioritise it, which I was glad to see. I thank the Department and the Minister most sincerely because the amendments tabled were excellent...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why mention it?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why mention it?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to make two points. I have been making the first one here most afternoons. It is about the fact that we now have a new poor in Ireland. If one earns anything between €30,000 and €60,000 in Ireland and if one happens to be in the area of trades, teaching, health, retail or services, one cannot afford to live in one's own country if one is young. One cannot afford to...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They also had a condition attached to their support. They said they would vote with the Government if the sentencing guidelines were included in the Judicial Council Bill 2017.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is happening to the Bill now is that it is collapsing. Senator Michael McDowell and the Independent group are entirely correct, as is the Labour Party, in respect of the GRECO report. We will see the report and if it is clean and freshwater, which it is, we will vote accordingly on the Bill itself, in which there are many good things with which I entirely agree. Generally, however, it...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not relishing it today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the delegates for attending. Some of them are in the throes of their work, with events taking place in a few weeks; therefore, we appreciate their attendance. This is the culture and heritage committee, but I do not know why we do not call it the arts and culture committee or why we wiped the word "arts" from both the name of the committee and the Department. It is extremely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Where is Deputy Healy-Rae?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My question is not even about keeping us informed. It is more about conviction and bringing us in because one can be informed every day. I am talking about going further than that. It is a bigger influence like we have here today. It should be far more definite and everyday. We are not getting it. We are getting it from all other angles but we are not getting the brilliance of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does the festival make a profit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Creative Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Absolutely. This is the core of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Government is writing tomes, some of which are on my desk and shelves, about the need for community and how community needs to be acknowledged, developed, enlarged and aligned. The very people who are doing this are the festivals and the arts organisations, including the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Listowel Writers' Week, the Galway Film Fleadh and the Earagail Arts Festival and so on. These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Death-defying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Are we getting away from the arts?