Results 621-640 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is the Senator talking about? They are not surviving.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are not surviving. How dare the Senator speak to me like that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have never been treated like this before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do the witnesses consider that third-level colleges have done enough to challenge and counteract binge drinking and the drinking culture? We are coming down in this country with third-level colleges. On an island which is 300 miles long, we have seven universities as well as institutes of technology and other colleges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are concerned, but are they doing enough, realistically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wonder how concrete that measure is. Every week, month or year in the universities, there are rag weeks and drink days. We had a drink Monday and a Donegal Tuesday, which had nothing to do with the county but where students were queuing up from 10 a.m. We had people rioting in the middle of a town and hundreds of students trying to get into a place to get shots before noon, when they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is and it is not in the sense that sometimes people have to be frightened into not doing something. We do not do things because they are bad for us----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is an important point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----which could allay a great deal of alcohol consumption. There has been a significant rise in various cancers because of the use of alcohol. This is not my area but I have done a great deal of research on it. Perhaps AAI might be capable of looking into this. We were good to make this link when it came to smoking but we do not make the link with alcohol. It is poison if it is overused.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I find that difficult to accept because it would not happen on an American campus, but even though this incident did not happen on the campus, they are still students and staff of the university. Unless third level institutions stand up in some way to control this and say if one is a representative of a university and is out of one's mind drunk and bouncing off a wall at 11.20 a.m., it will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Faculties must have a standard of application of educational opportunity and response.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Public Order Offences from Alcohol Misuse Perspective: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Young girls do not hear enough about that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Leyden for his compliments on my work on RTE. He is right, I do find a great spirit among Irish people around the country. Sometimes it is above and away from politics because that is how it survives. Sometimes we speak in jam jars around here. I wonder would he have been so effusive had it not been in his own area of Castlerea in County Roscommon. Had it been in north...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think equally-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Leyden. That is where the compliments end. I thought it very sad to be sitting in my room listening to Fianna Fáil Members trying to take on, and get rid of, the most reforming and excellent Minister of this State, for the wrong reasons. It is one thing to try to take somebody out but another to do it for the wrong reasons. It was equally pathetic to listen to Sinn...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are correct. He was an excellent Commissioner and he decided to retire for family reasons. Either he did that or he did not but we are sitting around here in Parliament effectively calling him a liar by saying there was some other reason. That is the reason he gave us, as the Irish people, and that is the reason we are to accept.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is my opinion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are all forgetting that the Garda Síochána did this to itself. Some of its members did this to themselves. I have had the pleasure of meeting the greatest gardaí all over this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister did not do this to them. Some of them did this to themselves and to the State. Targeting the Minister for the wrong reasons is puerile and infantile and extremely weak on the part of the Fianna Fáil Senators. They should come up with a better reason, find the right target and get out their bows and arrows. Lear on the heath will not do it. Maybe they should start...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I told the Cathaoirleach that Lear on the heath would not do it.