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- 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: I suggested that before and I was turned down. I was told that the committee should not be getting involved in union business.
- 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: The Senator should have consideration for those of us who are members of the committee, who come to all of the meetings and read all of the documentation.
- 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: I know, but a lot of time has been afforded to Senator Healy Eames. I did not know she was not a member of the committee anymore.
- 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: Even though I would disagree with the Minister on many things, he has answered my question on the impasses and has tried to answer the question on engagement with the unions, to be fair to him. He knows it has to happen.
- 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: I have read it. I was showing off. It is like getting an A in Irish.
- 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: There is a lot I could question about it but anything that breaks down the caste system between vocational education and academic education is a very good thing and anything that is flexible and allows people to move from one to the other and creates a kind of living world and a living education is absolutely marvellous. The Minister still did not tell me whether he thinks teachers have...
- 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: Hold on a minute. I am not talking about the behaviour, which was absolutely reprehensible. What went on was bad mannered. It was ridiculous, disrespectful and appalling. I am talking about re-igniting a conversation and an engagement. When will that happen?
- 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: One cannot say that students who do examinations do not learn.
- 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: I referred to trust, which is very important. Can the Minister regain the trust and the communicative trust in the 55% of teachers in the ASTI and the TUI? Maybe he does not want to regain the trust. There is an impasse. What moves has the Minister put in place to bring about that regaining of trust since the conference? That is the reality and is locked into the timeline we have been...
- 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: Can I ask the Minister about the trust idea? Trust is terribly important, as he will know, particularly trust between him and the teachers and between the teachers and him. Third-level education is one of the best examples of a situation in which people get educated in an organisation, qualify in an organisation, go back into the organisation and stay in it for the rest of their lives....
- 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: The Minister knows I was not talking about that kind of rote learning.
- 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: There is nothing wrong with rote learning.
- 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: I thank the Minister for giving us his time this afternoon. I do not believe rote learning and memorisation warps education or progress in education. I am in favour of it and I am in favour of the formalised mind. Once one's mind is formalised, one can be as creative as one wants. I wish to ask more general questions. I have absolute respect for the Minister and his office. Does he...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to jump the order of rank. I welcome the gentlemen from Men's Shed in Monaghan who are in the Visitors Gallery. They are in the House as my guests. Men's Shed is an extraordinary organisation, which deals with men's learning, health, information, well-being, belonging, skills, development, engagement, talk and reflection. I visited the Men's Shed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was an important afternoon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did WALK make a submission under the youth guarantee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Has the organisation challenged the decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Mason makes a very good point. From where does the 20% figure come?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My question was whether people with physical or intellectual disabilities, or both, were excluded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. What they do and who they are is at the core of what we are supposed to be as a society, in protecting our young, less well-off and less able. I wish to ask a question about the WALK PEER programme, which is a brilliant idea on which I congratulate the witnesses. The witnesses said that almost 20% of those with intellectual disabilities finish school with primary...