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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Give me another example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are destroying our environment. I refer to plastic in the sea and the effluent recently affecting south Dublin where people cannot swim because all the poo is going into the sea, etc. Would I be crazy to say that we need a single Department for the natural environment because of the destruction that would encompass what the witnesses are talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: A driver certainly will not see them on the windscreen, which is where they are usually seen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: People live in a kind of a contradictory environment. They drive across Ireland and think Ireland is magnificent, green, emerald and all of that. They do not lock into the reality of what Mr. O'Brien is saying. They do not really think these pollinators are essential to what and how we eat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Should there be a statutory requirement on all county councils, not only Louth County Council, to respond to what Mr. O'Brien has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: How much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the committee can help our guests to ignite people's interest in order to ensure that what they are seeking to do will happen, that would be good. If, as Mr. Norton suggested, Louth County Council is doing this so well, why can other local authorities not do it too? It is all very well to say that a plan is being adopted; there must also be action. I would be very much in favour of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will be here.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It should be me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am never down the list.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yesterday, we had the first hearing of the very delicate Bill on the rights of adoptive parents and adoptees that involves trying to strike a balance regarding a full and frank disclosure of people's identity and who and what they are. I would like to ask where the Fianna Fáil Members were, particularly the women, because this is a serious women's issue - both women who have children...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Leas-Chathaoirleach was in the Chair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator was in the Chair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am talking about the women. Men do not have babies; well, not yet anyway. I was very disappointed because every time I listen to Fianna Fáil on radio and television, it is talking about the high moral ground and how the Government is not doing this and that and how Fianna Fáil is holding us all together with a great moral chain link. Well it was not holding any moral chain link...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, this is true but she was whipped to within an inch of her life and the leader of Fianna Fáil in the House was not here.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Fianna Fáil either believes in women or it does not.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to extend my sympathies to the Cathaoirleach on the death of his sister and to Senator Coghlan on the death of his mother. I think that as one gets older, it is even more difficult to lose a parent or a sibling because one might not have youth on one's side to get through the terrible grief. I ask the Cathaoirleach and Senator Coghlan to accept my sincerest sympathies. I agree...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, could I ask the Senator where he was when we were arguing this last week for three hours?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Where was he? We all know what he is telling us. It is as if he is giving us new information. He is not.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator is not here if he does not come into the House.