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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will Mr. Purser reply to the questions I asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was elated by the information provided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What about the 20,000 students? Where do they come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The trajectory is very linear there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Perhaps the great Mary O'Rourke put the universities in the wrong place in Limerick - the University of Limerick is a brilliant university - and in Dublin City University. I am not sure that a university is coming to Athlone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is the case all over the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are not incarcerated here either for white-collar crime.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We know it in respect of mortality, deprivation and food. There are many studies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It would be an important study now since a university education does not necessarily lead to a job and our unemployment rate is so high. Does it work outside of the job factor? In what way does it work and keep people alive with possibility, a quality of life and a sense of what the philosophers call "happiness", which is very much a part of what education should have been about, that sense...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a major part of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses. One of the strengths of the committee is to be informed by the witnesses and their research and ethic. We can take this away and I am terribly interested in this. When the economy is discussed, one has to talk about education because they go hand in glove. While Mr. Zhang did not contribute, Dr. Larkin said that without his work ethic, much of this would not have...
- Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and thank him for the history lesson. It was a good reminder of what we all know, to our cost in our hearts and minds, happened to the Magdalen women. I wish to emphasise the word "justice" throughout my speech. I do this because "I emphasise the word "justice"" was the major sentence in an address by Deputy Alan Shatter, who was Minister for Justice, Equality and...
- Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister may define the Act as he wants. I define it in my way.
- Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can we reply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate a Government which will spend €345 million on a benefit and cost system for students in third level education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No. I do not bring telephones in here. I have made my position perfectly clear on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I hope it is not anywhere near me. Can the witnesses comment on the fact that only 2.8% is being spent on postgraduate students? I think the Government has abandoned postgraduate education in the grant system, regardless of the question of whether one can pay. A lot of undergraduates do something like a leaving certificate plus 1. Can the witnesses comment on that? The documentation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It relates to the matters subject to appeal in 2011 and 2012. There seem to be a huge number of appeals relating to a repeat period of study. Can SUSI and the Department comment on that? The figures relating to nationality and immigration status seem to be quite large too. Can they also comment on that? Is there a lack of the right kind of information? What are the pitfalls here? We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The highest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The guardianship situation will change automatically when the Children and Family Relationships Bill is enacted.