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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will there be more responses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will go last so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Begg’s paper was excellent, very comprehensive and frightening about Europe in ways. I would not necessarily agree with his statistics on population growth. He has had a marvellous and extraordinary career. I want to ask some questions left of centre. Outside his 30 year career, which began in 1985 as a member of the board of Trócaire to being director of Think-tank for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is. Creatively, I want to know what Mr. Begg would have done there. We sold our lottery for €460 million to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Why, if there are 150,000 pension schemes here, were we incapable of holding on to that or would Mr. Begg see a place where that might happen in the future? What was wrong with us that we did not have the facility to buy that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Chair, please do not control my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have not finished. Is Mr. Begg’s book part of the PhD? There are rumours in the press that Mr. Begg will stand for the Seanad. He might like to scotch them here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We were invited in here to talk to Mr. Begg. Some of us are more informed about pension schemes and what happens in them and the Pensions Authority and some of us are pretty creative and would like to ask creative questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not going to be told how we can ask them and when we are to stop asking. What is the point of being here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: People can answer a question and can also tell us things about themselves in the answer that we might not have known before and they are equally interesting for such an extraordinary job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Begg does not have to answer them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The person comes in here as a human being. That is why the person comes in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Chairman is raising the conflict. The person comes in here as a human being. We are asked to respond to the person, not only as one who is going to take over a job but also as a human being who is capable of doing that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am within my rights to ask questions about a person as a human being, and his background and future in the job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is called creativity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was just speculative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Begg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish Mr. Begg well in his role. It is a very challenging, interesting and brilliant role. As he said, one of the greatest challenges is that pensions will not meet the costs of growing old. We are not dying of cancer and disease so much but of old age, and we are getting older. This is the major challenge, as I have learned here politically over the past five years. I wish Mr. Begg...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his election. He was well chosen and brings experience and integrity to the role. He is a great listener and is fair. I would also like to congratulate Senator Jerry Buttimer on his appointment as Leader. He has the qualities to make the Twenty-fifth Seanad, which comprises an elected group of powerful people, come alive...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome Bloomsday, which celebrates a great writer. James Joyce's imagination and creativity made him an exile and he chose to live outside of this country. His departure was a great loss to us, although he remembered Dublin. Interestingly, it has been said that if Dublin was laid to waste, Ulysses could be used to reconstruct the city because it is so topographically and geographically...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I second what my colleague, Senator Craughwell, had to say. This is the Upper House of the State's Legislature. Some people may not view it as that, but I do. I respect it and am privileged and grateful to be here. I intend to use the House in a civil way. It is not a place for the shouting, catcalling and booing that we heard yesterday. It is a place of argument, discussion, debate,...