Results 1,281-1,300 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Could there not be balance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Languages.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes and no.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, but not necessarily ability and quality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why would Mr. Burke not consider that allocating those 25 points to a language of choice, be it German, Spanish, French, Russian or whatever, or to an arts subject on the leaving certificate programme, would be equally beneficial? He could argue for a balance, that we could keep incentivising those taking higher level mathematics, but we could also do the same for other choices. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It has not. Where are the studies that show that? The Senator cannot say that, because we have no studies to show that. We had an uptake. Now we have a downtake and now we have a fail-pass take and a pass-fail honours take. We have a pile of takes on it now. Therefore, it cannot be said it has worked brilliantly because it had an uptake. Ask the University of Limerick. It has done a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is. Everything is within the commission's remit. It is and it is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The State board would come with minds, not just with pens.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Getting 30 points in honours maths is equivalent to 55 points in pass maths. I have never heard rubbish like it. It is not a qualitative argument and could not possibly be. You would get a percentage for writing your name. This is the gradation system and is part of the proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is not right. It needs to be rethought. I accept Mr. Burke's thinking on this, but I believe he could influence policy as chair of the commission. Obviously the Department sets its boundaries, but people are there to influence, see, advise, enlarge and extend these. They are not just there with a pen-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----as Senator Craughwell is here with his phone.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I also wish Senator Jimmy Harte the very best. He was an outstanding Senator who had one quality which some of us, myself included, lacked, namely fearlessness. He was the one Senator who, when I first came here with him, was able to stand up to Sinn Féin and never let them away with a thing. I admired him for that. He never let them away with anything because he experienced it on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The clue is in the verb "may". The inference from Standing Orders is that if the Attorney General decides that she or the Minister of State would like to come in and-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----not be hauled over the coals by a failing, degrading and good-God-give-me-an-issue Fianna Fáil-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator has tried to couch this motion in a benign way as the letter of the law but it is certainly not in the spirit of the law. It is couched in malice aforethought with no-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Might I point out to Fianna Fáil-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Might I point out to Fianna Fáil that the answer is in the "may" and the Senator understands the English language and the inference of that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Attorney General is not here to answer the Senator's partisan and political needs and make him feel relevant, nor is it to answer his need to seek attention now that he is on his way to an election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Taoiseach may have been right-----