Results 2,041-2,060 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That kind of information is useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It might be interesting to send us a page with all of that together. It is disparate. One must go looking. In looking for the numbers, one does not find easily the Microfinance Ireland funding for entrepreneurship. Mr. McKeon might provide that, within the parameters of the going and the coming, so that members would have at their fingertips how many people are on these courses. As Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It has some of them. I suggest bringing them together. They are quite disparate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: For what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It might give people the opportunity to run their eye over the education, youth, culture and sport document.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is a serious issue because we want to keep young people in training and education with a sense of hope and possibility for the future. I wrote a report on this issue in 2013. What has happened since? Will Mr. McKeon outline what is new? Will he provide statistics for the increases across the schemes, not just Ballymun? By how much has the take-up for JobBridge, JobsPlus, Tús,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is there a crossover? This has a major part to play in terms of the youth guarantee across the board, especially in the context of mainstream education, vocational education and an education for the disabled. It is an fantastic, enormous document, but there does not seem to be a crossover with the youth guarantee scheme. Will Mr. McKeon comment on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Department of Social Protection (28 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: One of the platforms of the youth guarantee is flexibility. Therefore, what is happening to this young man is not supposed to happen. One is supposed to be able to move freely; one is not supposed to be penalised, depending on which scheme one is moving to and from.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I am not aware of what the Senator is referring to. Could he explain what he is referring to?
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Cullinane should examine my voting record. I have exercised independence in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will not be lectured to by Sinn Féin. I was making a general point about the importance of listening to voices in the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have acted independently since I first came through the door of this Chamber.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If we want to see hypocrisy, all we have to do is ring up Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I commend all those who stood for Parliament. What happens within the Labour Party and other parties in terms of changes in Ministries and elsewhere is not my call and I am not here to criticise. However, Ministers will in future have to take heed of what Senators are saying, particularly some of the Independent Senators who are fortunate enough not to be required to display abject loyalty,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know that one is either on a team or not on a team, and I completely agree with the Taoiseach in that regard. However, Ministers have come into this House and ignored warnings from Senators across all parties, Government and elsewhere. They have ignored disagreements expressed by Senators, as well as amendments, judgments and suggestions from Senators. Everybody in the House speaks about...
- Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Judge and jury.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is feminisation. Ding, dong - it's the Avon lady.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Would the Minister not agree that for a primary school teacher things like history and geography impinge more on other subjects than mathematics would?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If we get rid of rote learning-----