Results 1,761-1,780 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the chairperson and the director of the museum and the other witnesses for being here. I consider the museum to be the language of who we are, what we are and what we can become. I am delighted to meet Ms Heaney and Mr. Ó Floinn. I was just reading Culture 2025, which will play such a major part in our lives. I wish to ask the witnesses two questions. First, are they looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know it is a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a creative question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sure she would like to answer my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Ó Floinn to respond to my question about the most interesting object in the museum's collection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Museum of Ireland: Discussion (11 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are a few necks we could plunge it into around here.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can I ask a question?

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can I?

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am genuinely losing faith in all of this. I would like to be reassured by the Minister. The reason I am losing faith is that when I travel around the country, which I do regularly, and look at the hedgerows all along our motorways and our roads, they are hacked to death. Leaving out the internal and external hedges of farms and those internal to every county, when I travel on the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are hacked to death. Now that our pilot scheme is gone and this scheme is gone and there is a general free-for-all, I wonder where we are.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just want assurance from the Minister about our county councils. They are not even using the right instruments.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Am I wrong? Is it a stupid thing to say?

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is disgraceful.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: According to National Geographic, if all the human beings left the planet it would flourish but if the bees left it would die. It is very interesting. I remember reading that years ago as a young person, but it is coming to fruition. Two weeks ago I saw hundreds of beekeeepers gathered outside the Dáil. I knew instantly that the Bill was flawed. Otherwise, they would not have...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I asked this question earlier. Who is responsible for hacking hedges along a motorway? If the county council, the Government or some State agency is responsible, God help us in the free-for-all when it comes to other hedges. I agree with everything Senators Grace O'Sullivan and Alice-Mary Higgins have said. The eye is off the ball. Bringing in the issue of road safety is crazy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know the gallery, which is stunning. I have been there on many occasions and as such I congratulate Ms McHugh and wish her the best of luck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think we are a visually illiterate country. I do not mean that with regard to great paintings, but about where we live, what buildings we put up and what we think look like nice houses. We are appalling with regard to where we ask people to actually survive for their lives or even where they live when they get old. We have no proper architecture at all. It is all half-copied. Ms McHugh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----to paint when they were young, because they were working in other areas. What does Ms McHugh think would be her greatest strength, coming to the board as the chair? I know her background is in corporate affairs, taxation and accounting. What does she think her greatest strength is going to be with her board and sub-committees? It is all going to come from her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What does Ms McHugh understand by "participating in cultural life"? People say that, write it in great treatises and put it on the top of reports, that is, "we hope people will participate in cultural life". That is always discussed in politics. What does Ms McHugh understand by that?