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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We should hear more about the area because when I think of digital learning, I tend to think of mathematics and biomedical studies rather than the arts, music and theatre. It could be a wonderful way of educating and informing people about all the trajectories of digital learning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can Professor Mac Craith tell me about this DCU history module? That is not available yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will it be for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does Professor Mac Craith think it could be out for 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Professor Savage would fit in well as a politician, then. He would do very well. If he had training, at least.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Professor MacCraith would probably know my feelings about this. I am not resistant to it. It is highly creative and imaginative and it is something we must do. I agree with everything Deputy Cannon and all the participants said about this. However, in doing this we must always uphold the arts within it. We have decimated them in primary and secondary schools and at third level. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Moran is a musician.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to share my time with Senator Kelly. I will only speak for two to three minutes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not have a great knowledge of finance, barring its language of obfuscation and also what I know because I owe so much to the bank. I want to ask two disparate questions and the Minister may be able either to think about them or answer them. On page A.5 of budget 2015, an outline was provided of the universal social charge, USC. People on incomes of between €0 and €12,000...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State, but I do not think his officials have been listening. That was not my question. I asked a massive question about why somebody on €17,000, €18,000, €22,000, €24,000, €31,000, €33,000, €44,000 or any amount right up to €70,000 is paying 7%. That gap is too wide.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. The Minister of State was not here.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a major gap between €17,000 and €70,000. It is too wide. My point was that surely it should be more progressive.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can I? All right. The Minister of State knows the point I am making. I also asked why the Department of arts, heritage, the islands and the whales was not included in the Supplementary Estimate.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not in it.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Okay.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The massive example is that somebody earning €30,000 is paying €175 a month.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Senator van Turnhout on bringing representatives of the Health Service Executive before the Joint Committee on Health and Children in response to what occurred in the Áras Attracta facility in Swinford. Would that the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection could be so proactive, alive, urgent and relevant. I congratulate the Senator on her achievement. Two or...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, none of that would have occurred if the Government had approached the water issue correctly in the first place. Let us not talk rubbish.