Results 1,801-1,820 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why have there not been moves to create a rail line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Surely that would be central?
- 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 thank Deputy Healy-Rae for giving me the constituency of Dublin. I do not have the constituency of Dublin but I appreciate it. As a Senator I look at things more nationally, and I have to say the word "ugly" comes into my head. When I drive around the country, my first reaction is to ask how did that happen, who gave permission for that and what is that about. I say it because I may be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Monstrosities
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That was my point. We are forgetting them.
- 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 do not.
- 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 was going to mention Westport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is the Department responsible for ensuring that local authorities are up to scratch? How come local authorities are up to scratch in Westport, Clonakilty and other places but appalling in other places?Is such work not part of the Department'sraison d'être? Should it be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Department should use its powers on local authorities that do not have the same talent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do we close all the towns now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are helping them by putting Tesco at the top and Lidl at the bottom.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: When the witnesses were coming in, I do not think they thought it was going to be like this. It was awful really.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What people?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The people were not asked about reform.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: As was the Senator-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----considering people were boiling water for 20 years in Senator Leyden's constituency.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish Deputy Enda Kenny a great amount of luck in the future. In his poem "Beowulf", Séamus Heaney, whom we have commemorated in this Chamber, wrote:Behaviour that's admired is the path to power. I think Deputy Enda Kenny was admirable. I know we might have differed. Many people in this House and in the Lower House might have differed with him in relation to argument, but his...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: His retirement, not his demise.