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- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Bravo.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Only 50%.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear the Senator.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is great legislation.
- Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister of State is a formidable opponent. I am not surprised that more colleagues are absent. I do not mean this is an accusatory way but this is a profound issue and it will be the major issue of the decade. It is more profound than water charges or arguing about, or because of, territory. I know Margharita Solon who imagined and developed the McAuley centre in Naas, County...
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is always great to speak on the arts, given that, as Senator Ó Murchú said, we get so few opportunities to do so at any level here. I was on the board of the National Concert Hall for two terms.
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator. Given what happened a few boards later, they should bring us back. I was on the board in the early 1990s and into the 2000s. I was the only dissenting voice on a board of 15 members against the National Concert Hall moving. At that time, there was the beginning of the sloshing around of money. We were going to move from Fenian Street to a green field site. I was the...
- Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a very good place at the time. There was a tremendous urgency about it, like when Dublin City University became a university in the late 1980s. We had a great outreach programme, which other cultural institutes might look to. We were the first board to get the National Symphony Orchestra to get into buses, trains and cars and go to places such as Sligo, Mayo and Galway. It is not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear a word Ms Whelan is saying. I am not prepared to put up with this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Was it not set up under the Youth Guarantee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a pilot programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for their interesting presentations. Is Mr. Power aghast at what he is hearing from the Department? It is not so much that there is a contradiction but there are huge gaps which Mr. Power outlined in his summary report. However, according to the summary report there is 22% for very satisfactory, 36% for satisfactory and 11% either way. That is 69% which would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator has stated that JobBridge was totally and absolutely abused. If something is totally abused, the abuse rate is 90% or 95%. Can the Senator give members, at this committee, examples of the 95% of abuse?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is Senator Craughwell actually talking about? Is he talking about a totality of abuse or instances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are instances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, well, the Senator should not be making up generalisations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, but making up generalisations is extremely dangerous when people are trying to do great work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am here most days. Moreover, I have been here for four years, whereas the Senator has been in the Seanad for about six months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What about the 900 people over 50?