Results 1,401-1,420 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- 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 think that is important.
- 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 is also partly that, as people point out to us all the time, we are not really operating the Nordic model. Mr. Creedon has a very good point. Pilots are very good. It is a very good and wonderful use of resources. Creativity, action, outreach and tangents were put into it. Now it has come to an end. Did Mr. Creedon not make a good point? We need to take those tangents and all the...
- 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: That is true.
- 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: We can pick targets.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This legislation is one of the most outstanding Bills to come into the House since I became a Senator because it is a reform of the law. It provides a modern statutory framework that supports decision-making by adults. It enables them to retain the greatest amount of autonomy possible in situations where they lack or may short lack capacity. I...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: You will have to bear with me, a Chathaoirligh. Some people spoke way over their time. Some people had to speak during the train station and we did not have a quorum. I beg the indulgence of the Chair for just one more minute. Let me address very generally some points I feel need to be teased out in this excellent Bill. It is necessary that enduring powers of attorney that are in...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It should report to the Government, the Taoiseach or the Oireachtas. Given its remit and functions, it is not appropriate to have the decision support service as an agency of the Courts Service because it gives rise to perception issues, confines the context and mismatches the statutory functions. I will be bringing amendments in this regard. There is also the question of the deprivation...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Unfortunately, this provision was deleted from the Bill, as amended on Committee Stage. This needs to be reinstated because omitting it is a very backward step.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Thank you. I beg your indulgence. I would suggest that in a Bill such as this, the House should be packed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The train station will just have to stop.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not quorate.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State for her extraordinary work. I also wish to acknowledge Patricia Rickard-Clarke who is in the Gallery and who is encyclopaedic in her commitment and the thrust of much of what is in the Bill. Without her, many of us would not have the language for today let alone the understanding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is not necessarily my area but I want to ask a generalised non-political, perhaps apolitical, question. In certain cases of middle and profound intellectual disability, have we created a kind of rod for our own back by integration? I say that with all the quality in the world. I came from a background of education and as an educationalist - I came to the Seanad as one - but I wonder...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, I fully understand what Deputy O'Brien is saying but I am unsure whether those anecdotes are necessarily the answer in certain instances. It is a fair enough question. With all the resources in the world-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my argument.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a good answer, but I would never separate the quality of education from any child. I did not mean that. I was simply asking the question for those who might not be suitable. Perhaps it is a parental matter. I have seen where parents insist on sending the child to mainstream secondary school, which does not serve many people's needs whether they have intellectual disability. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is he doing now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No computer ever will.