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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They pay 8% more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who can be described as a middle income earner? What are the margins?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If Professor Honohan introduces the 20% down payment on a house, we will not need to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to ask Mr. Staunton in what way, if he had a magic wand, he would change the tax system? Is there something that could be done that is not being done or something that he sees that could make it more progressive and fairer? I understand there are a thousand different ramifications of the progressive system as Dr. de Buitléir pointed out. It is a privilege to be here...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is there any way the representatives can do anything about the funny business? Colm Keena wrote some very good articles on this in The Irish Timeswhere he followed some European journalists on that business that has started there where there were all these ghost companies in Luxembourg with knobs on hall doors but nothing behind them. Is there any way we can be influenced to actively spend...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It sounds a bit like Sinn Féin, without the background.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Good luck with that on the hustings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If you are looking for gold, good luck on the hustings with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Good luck with that on the hustings also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This has been a most informative debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That was a good, explanatory and readable presentation. I enjoyed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, but it was very good. Mr. Daly obviously knows his area well, what he has done and what he needs, but I am not sure about his reasons. He stated that there were three "statics" - I do not understand that word - of particular note in the report. First, 40% of students are not using a computer in class even once a week. Second, 45% of students are in schools with weak support for ICT...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I understand. Third, 40% of students are being taught by teachers with low confidence levels in using ICT. I will put a spanner in the works. Where does what Mr. Daly has stated stand as regards our greatest weaknesses in school, namely, numeracy and literacy? This paper gives me the impression that ICT is some kind of saviour. I live in the real world, where the main requirements in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We must be careful, when talking about computers and IT not being available in schools, about saying that the school or the children are therefore weak. There are many thousands of ways whereby young people can be assessed. For me, numeracy and literacy are fundamental to that. Of course, the witnesses are correct, as is everything they are doing. I agree with Senator Craughwell that an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can we use that here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is it being introduced here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: May I ask a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: For how long has Camara Ireland been in existence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Have the witnesses written anything? They mentioned, apropos of the point made by Deputy Jim Daly, what they have learned in that ten years, how their approach and how they do things have changed. Have they written anything about this or about the organisation's plans for the future or is it just ethereal? That is my question and if so, can members read some of it? Obviously, the approach...