Results 641-660 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Blah, blah, blah.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I do not want to get involved in this argument. I have not been to Bahrain. I have read about it and I have listened to my colleagues. Is education not meant to be about, above and outside politics? Is not one of the principles of education to be about knowledge, training, skill and the development of freedom? I agree with Professor Kelly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I never said there were. I said it is a philosophy of education that we strive towards that. In our own country we strive towards that. It is not an "or" or a "not"; we strive towards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wonder if the witnesses would like to respond-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: ----- to Senator Power's contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Right of reply.
- Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move: That Seanad Éireann –- conscious that almost 29,000 people die each year in Ireland and 290,000 people are newly bereaved; - aware that contributors to the recent hearings on palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children identified that end-of-life issues are wider than health care;calls on the Government to put in...
- Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State. I also thank my colleague, Senator David Norris, for seconding the motion and Senators Jillian van Turnhout and Mary Ann O'Brien who were part of the Taoiseach's cabal for speaking to the motion. I thank the Government for withdrawing its amendment which I appreciate more than it knows. It was brave, perceptive and good to do. About one year ago I was doing...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. I have a bread and butter question. Will the witnesses provide four examples of how Travellers are discriminated against? I ask for real examples, as opposed to philosophical, sociological or linguistic examples.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to ask Mr. Rowe a question. He spoke as though Catholic education and schooling was the road to the damned. I felt that was the inference of what he had to say. Is he saying that children of no religion or other religions who happen to be in Catholic schools cannot flourish within those schools? Knowledge - the arts, history, geography, music - supercedes what Mr. Rowe suggests is...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Mr. Aidan Hogan and Mr. Francis Ducie because they said one of the most important things to be said here today, which was about real communication and that it is absolutely imperative that people have a right to proper, understandable communication when so many laws and so much of our discourse is obfuscation and lack of clarity. They raised this point as something Senators...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was on that committee and, as Senator Bacik said, the committee recommended that the age would be reduced to 16 years and made some other very fine recommendations. It is timely.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a suggestion of the independent, Taoiseach’s nominee Senators, taken up and ratified by the Leader.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. What they do and who they are is at the core of what we are supposed to be as a society, in protecting our young, less well-off and less able. I wish to ask a question about the WALK PEER programme, which is a brilliant idea on which I congratulate the witnesses. The witnesses said that almost 20% of those with intellectual disabilities finish school with primary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Chair for allowing me back in. There is one question that I meant to ask earlier which is somewhat sensitive. Those who are born intellectually disabled live in a different world and look at the world in a different way. When does it become clear that an individual is not capable of getting a job? Is that a family decision? I know that many are capable but when does it become...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did WALK make a submission under the youth guarantee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Has the organisation challenged the decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Mason makes a very good point. From where does the 20% figure come?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My question was whether people with physical or intellectual disabilities, or both, were excluded.