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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Many Deputies would be thrilled if events were in their constituencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: And know what it is about.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear a word that the Senator is saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: A few days ago, while a Senator was rightly berating the Government, probably on the grounds of its talent, ability, professionalism and resilience, he went on to call Deputy Lowry "a criminal." The Cathaoirleach was not here. It is important.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I certainly am.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will be very careful with what I say because I have already-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a good thing for Members of this Senate to stand up calling anybody "Fascists" or "Criminals" regardless of who they are or what their job is. It is bad enough that we come into the Senate and that nobody is listening to us because Members are on their phones, or writing home or whatever but I do not want to be part of a Senate where language such as that is used. If people have a...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was present for the enactment of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 in spring 2015. Parts 2 and 3 of the Act govern family relationships arising from donor-assisted human reproduction, that is, the use of donor eggs, sperm or embryos to conceive children. They create a legal structure whereby the commissioning or social parents of children born through donor-assisted human...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was set up by the Taoiseach's nominees.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was set up by the Taoiseach's nominees.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What about the post offices?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I put on the record how sad I was to hear about Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's death this morning. He was an extraordinary musician, a brilliant teacher and an outstanding composer, and he is a great loss to us because he was able to make Irish music like Mozart's music. It is a tremendous loss to the university, his postgraduate students and musical composition...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is true and they will not fill the vacancies. We can go through all of the policy areas on the future of work but if we do not have enough staff to run our hospitals and keep them open at weekends, I do not know what we are thinking about. We are obfuscating policy for practical application. It was the most unperceptive remark on people who are meant to be running this country. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: To think that the powers that be in the Lower House do not have the perception to know the problem-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sick of hearing about policy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome all of the witnesses. They are one the most relevant group of people who have come here and I am delighted to see them. I have had the privilege of covering many of the annual heritage weeks as part of a radio programme broadcast by RTÉ. The subjects for the radio programmes have ranged from moths in County Cavan to the sounds of nature at the dark sky park in Ballycroy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, it is just an amalgamation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not mean that the Department would exclude all the brilliant things Mr. Starrett has created himself, I am suggesting that some sort of independence would allow him push forward the very things he is looking for. I suggest that the fact that heritage is amalgamated with culture and arts somewhat closes it down in so far as there is a pecking order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am offering a way for that to become-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sorry, Chairman. I will stop interrupting.