Results 981-1,000 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He should not do that. I am extremely aware of the difference between the privatisation and public ownership of water. I have watched Nestlé walk through Africa and, as I told the House, bottle African water under the guise of Pure Life and sell it all over the world. I am extremely aware of what happens when vulture funds take over, in whatever capacity, especially in respect of...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Some 83% of one’s lungs and 93% of what we eat is water based.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am right. Water is us; we are water. We come from water and we are water. The idea that it is important is insufficient as one cannot find a word to suggest how important it actually is. I suggest to Fianna Fáil, because it has been thumping at us over here all morning-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The slings and arrows. The reason we are here is that Fianna Fáil abolished water rates.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The general election-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I ask the Senators to allow me to finish.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The party drew up a manifesto which offered the electorate a string of financial and economic sweeteners, encouraging them to vote for Fianna Fáil. Some of the promises that were offered included the abolition of rates on houses, the abolition of car tax and the promise of reducing unemployment, and the abolition of water rates.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Thank you, thank you. Not only did it do that, but it heralded in Mr. Bertie Ahern, Mr. Seán Doherty, Mr. Pádraig Flynn, Mr. Mark Killilea, Mr. Liam Lawlor-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will I go on?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am talking about-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can I get to my point?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will get to my point.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On the plebiscite, the Bill as originally published was so wanton and loose about who could in the future own Irish Water, that I actually felt that it was nearly a ready-up for privatisation. I just need a little more convincing on the Bill as it stands. I ask this question of the Minister and of the Senators. Section 2(1) states:A Bill providing or allowing for the alienation of any share...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: However, everyone is forgetting the second one.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The section continues:(b) a proposal to provide or allow for such alienation is submitted by Plebiscite for the decision of the PeopleI am a selected Member of the House. However, are other Senators, as elected Members of the House, saying they will not know the force, thrust, ideas, belief and values of the people? Is that what they are saying?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Are those Senators, who go home to their local areas every evening, saying they will not know that? Are they separating the dancer from the dance? Are they saying they would do something in absolute contradiction of what the people want, feel and value? Is that what you are saying? It that the way you are saying that people elected in the future will act and ignore the what the people...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: You cannot because you are elected as the voice of the people. That is why you are here. That is why you will be here in the future when I am long gone through the revolving doors to the delight of many and the despair of others.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is what you will be doing. Are you saying you will ignore that?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, but you ignore that.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is that what you are saying?