Results 2,441-2,460 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What Ms Pratschke has said is so true. As they were walking down the corridor somebody told me not to go to the Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht because there were no votes in it. It is important because it is the ruin-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What Ms Pratschke has said is completely correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did Mr. Conlon get a good response from the public? Did he feel the public was behind him? We read the letters. We might have been informed in a different way here through The Irish Timesand the media. Did he feel the public was behind his group? Did he get the sense of a wave?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will finish on this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a question, but an observation. I wanted to congratulate Mr. Murray in another way. Some philistines I hang out with, who have never crossed the Abbey door, have been to the Abbey because of the productions that have been staged and they loved it. It is very important to say that we are not here to judge. That is the positive nature of it. Also I note the forces the theatre...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a star turn on "Double Your Money".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am kidding, but he did say it. I used to meet him quite a lot at the theatre before he became Taoiseach. He is very genuinely interested in the arts. The arts are our heartbeat and without them we are lesser human beings, educationally, performance-wise and observationally. There must be a huge surge against these forces to actually make the arts central. Funding is extraordinarily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, that is another speech.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sorry, Chair. It is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Troubadours.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: All that has been said about the €1.7 billion hospital has probably been said except that when we say "€1.7 billion", we should really say "€1.7 thousand million"-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----in order that people can get into their heads the year of magical thinking in which we are all involved from a monetary point of view. I ask the Leader for an explanation of this, or perhaps the relevant Minister might come in and tell us about PwC. I would like to have outlined to me what its expertise is, since the first thing it did was to telephone England and find some other...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, in this instance, under a particular scheme. I think other businessmen could avail of it too. I want to know what the story is in that regard. I ask the Leader to provide an update on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, in particular sections 3 and 8, which I do not want to see, as I know the Leader does not either, remain on a top shelf. I would like a response from...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not understand the effect we are supposed to be having in the Upper House.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is it? Will somebody tell us what it is because I do not know what it is?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is €1,700 million.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is loads of it in here.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is true.