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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We all have taken our eyes off the ball.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not paying attention to the real issue, the biggest issue in the country, the greatest issue in every house, the only issue for every worker in the country and the most pronounced for every business, that is, the behaviour of the banks. We have gone crazy about it and into a kind of silent stupor. We spend three weeks talking about a shopkeeper in Kilcar and the Irish Museum of...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will Senators please attend to the issue of the banks?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We re-enact it as we speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are the Upper House.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are all the same.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I spent last night reading Mr. Honohan's report from the Central Bank on the 20% to be imposed in terms of loan-to-value and loan-to-income requirements and I think it is a great example of obfuscation. It is endemic and extraordinary because nowhere in the document, which all Members should read, does it actually state that the banks are at fault. We are all at fault but they are not...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. Will somebody second it?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, it is difficult for us on this side to hear that side of the House. We could not hear the Senator's argument. I am not being smart about this. We could not hear the argument.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, is the Senator suggesting that we are not allowed to challenge the two great pillar banks? I am surprised at that.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: She said we must live with this reality.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My apologies.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, the Senator did not.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That does not mean we cannot challenge the arrangements.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, I am withdrawing it until after the budget.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: How are they facts? If Senator O'Brien does not know them and he does not know the answer to them, then how are they facts?

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator O'Brien can point away.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister to the House for this debate. I wish to speak about why the arts matter to me. I had the privilege to be trained in the arts and education, as well as the privilege of being educated in the arts and performance and the arts in education. I know, through my training and education that the arts are our national legacy, national language and national identity. I have...