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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why?

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Forget about the other person. We are talking about Ms McHugh and her passion.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: How would Ms McHugh go about that?

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a very important point because it will not just happen with a marketing manager. One must sit and think of really creative, imaginative and evocative ways to invite one's own people in and make it a place where they go or think of as a place to be or to engage with. That takes passion and a lot of imagination and thought. It is very exciting because the gallery is asking its own...

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My last question is about ownership. I cannot believe the ETB owns the collection - not that it does not deserve it. I do not mean that. Where is that line and how much would it cost to buy it out? How does the gallery get the collection and move it to itself through the OPW? What happens there? Where is the gallery in that process?

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why has it not happened then?

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was only a hub.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I might ask Ms McHugh to come back and tell us how the gallery is doing.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Robert Ballagh.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is terribly important an institution such as the Crawford Gallery is completely independent in its ideas, passion, imagination, creativity and artistry. There is a development regionally and rurally but there is a trend towards a Tesco-ising of the arts. I have a feeling about this in that everything will happen everywhere almost at the same time and that we will all believe in this word...

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is everywhere I look. We are all singing the same verse of the song.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a bus company.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would be delighted and privileged to get one. We were wondering who would get one. We thought it would be the Chairman.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Please do. We would be happy to pay for them individually.

Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, some Senators present in the Chamber were supporting Senator Warfield but may not have spoken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is not my area, but I live there and I have a son there. What the witness is discussing is extraordinary information for the future of how we want Ireland to look and how we want to survive post Brexit. Perhaps he would drill down further on this. His theory is that if we put all this into cities such as Galway, Limerick and Waterford, it will have a tentacle effect outside. Perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a question of distance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: So have we.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I ask Dr. Hughes to respond to my point about Naas being so near Dublin yet not alive in the same way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: May I add something? When I was speaking about Naas, I did not mean to undermine the wonderful town that it is. I was really talking about the dumbing down of the shops and the big Tesco taking over the whole life force and pulling it out of the town. That is bad planning. In Naas, McAuley Place is one of the greatest and most creative places for older people to live in the middle of the...