Results 301-320 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I insist that the Senator does not misquote the Minister, especially on something as profound as this. I also insist that he puts it in the context of the conversation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In the context of the conversation-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He is not only misquoting the Minister but he is also justifying the facts that suit himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Mullen’s commentary is the type of misrepresentation that we have had to listen to over the past three to five weeks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How does the Senator interpret goodwill?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a clear indication of the Senator's misrepresentation of the facts and his own justification to suit his own facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He quoted incorrectly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was in the wrong context.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, will Senator Healy Eames indicate how many people were surveyed for this research?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister asked if we are moving towards a particular ethos. The question asked by the Deputies is a very good one. Should the State be responsible for religious education or should religious education be something independent of the schools? I understand the Protestant teacher training college, Mater Dei and other such colleges are coming under the auspices of DCU, which is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is the overriding umbrella and these teacher training colleges are coming under it. It has a very secular ethos.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my point - one can parallel the two ethoses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That deals with the Minister's question. It might allay many fears about discrimination.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, as it should be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my point, generally. Each one of these teacher training colleges would have been very independent and somewhat isolated and now they are coming under DCU and a different ethos. However, they also have the tributaries of their own ethoses to hold onto within the new four-year teacher training programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Church of Ireland College of Education Order 2013: Motion (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is about choice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the group to the committee. It is nice to see the faces behind the attack. I am just back on the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection so we have not met before. I think it ran quite a benevolent city. I worked in third level for 35 years so I have some idea of the grant system and what students go through and Deputy McConalogue was absolutely right, there is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not Deputy Collins; I am Senator O'Donnell. I am not a Deputy quite yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a world of difference there.