Results 1,561-1,580 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Leader inquire of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act will be commenced? During my five years in the previous Seanad it was possibly one of the greatest human rights Bills to come before the House. Unfortunately, when asked by our national broadcaster just before Christmas what was happening in the House,...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is good to see the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, in the House. The charities legislation has had an outrageous historical journey and this has been going on since the mid-1990s. The Department of Justice and Equality sat on it for years, it next arrived at other Departments and it then came back to the Department of Justice and Equality. The Bill has been...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Tánaiste for attending and assuring me that Part 4 will be commenced on 5 September. The challenge is significant, but there is also a challenge to the Government not to delay or shelve. The 8,000 charities and 12,500 organisations are performing a public service and the Government rightly backs them, so it is up to it to protect the money that it and the ordinary person on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I cannot hear what the Senator is saying with the amount of traffic that is taking place in the House, and I want to hear her point. The Senator is trying to get above the noise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a train station.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the discussions at BIPA are anything like the comments the Senator has just made, they will not get far.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very difficult to hear the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Excuse me, I cannot hear the Leader speaking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Pardon?
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My apologies, unused as I am to this great leadership.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Thank you. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to give Senators a heads up on the Peter Cassells' report. I found the report somewhat fascinating. After two years they could come up with only three elements of how third level education could be funded. This is extraordinary: either keep the current fee system and raise the fees, abolish the fees...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: People's ability to pay and the means testing of what people are actually doing in our universities have been ignored completely and entirely.I would like some proof that the universities need all this money.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a chorus to my left, which was not in my play.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: At the same time-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would just like to know how much more funding they actually need. Could we have an in-depth analysis of that and could we have proper means testing? How come a report like this did not touch on it and how did we only come up with three solutions, two of which were already there? Some 90 young doctors have just qualified from NUIG and they are all going to Australia. The taxpayer has...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Craughwell is seconding the Bill but our second speaker is Senator Ó Céidigh, who is sharing his time.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In a summary of Seanad reform, from 1937 to 2003 we had the O'Rourke report of 2004, the Committee on the Constitution in 1967, the O'Keeffe report in 1997, the Lenihan report in 2002, the Gormley report in 2009, the Crown Bill in 2013, the Zappone-Quinn Bill in 2013, the Fianna Fáil policy document in 2013, the Green Party policy document in 2015, the Constitutional Review Group in...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.