Results 1,881-1,900 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Good. I hope it is big enough to fit me in.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Before I raise the point I want to make, I ask the Leas-Cathaoirleach to reconsider how the Order of Business is done. It should be on a first-come, first-served basis. The Leas-Cathaoirleach is not listening to me. The Order of Business should be ordered on a first-come------
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: ------first-served basis because, whatever about the rights of parties and groups in regard to legislation, it is very unfair when the Order of Business is what it says it is------
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is compiled in relation to groups and those who are not------
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am suggesting a change in that procedure.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will do so. I thank the Leas-Cathaoirleach. I ask the Deputy Leader to request that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, come to the House to tell Senators what exactly and definitely is happening with An Post. I raise this because it is a very big national issue in which the Seanad should be involved. Can the Minister tell us about the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a profound tragedy that there was such loss of life yesterday as a result of the storm. I offer my sympathies to the families involved. I happened to be on a train yesterday for approximately ten hours. We were treated with absolute civility by Iarnród Éireann. Without the guys with the chainsaws, we would not have moved anywhere because they were ten hours on the tracks...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am just letting the Cathaoirleach know since he was not here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is not the point I was making.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, I am questioning the rules; I am not questioning the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not the fault of the trees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The roads were built incorrectly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Or Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is about the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, the issue has been already discussed as a Commencement matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I beg your pardon.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister was in the House. I listened to him speak for 20 minutes on the monitor in my office.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to point out that I was not and do not question anybody's independence of thought. I am also not questioning the order and form generally outside of the bobbing up and down and the repetition. I am questioning the Order of Business and its form and regulation. I am requesting that those who-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know, but I just want to make myself clear. I took the Leas-Chathaoirleach's advice and wrote to the CPP about it. I feel that those who are not part of a group should be afforded the same time as others, on a first come, first served basis, rather than always being at the bottom of the queue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not part of a group. I do not suggest a Senator in a group is not independent of thought, cognition or feeling, but if one is not in a group, one has to go to the bottom of a queue on the Order of Business.