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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 thank the Chair for allowing me back in. There is one question that I meant to ask earlier which is somewhat sensitive. Those who are born intellectually disabled live in a different world and look at the world in a different way. When does it become clear that an individual is not capable of getting a job? Is that a family decision? I know that many are capable but when does it become...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a suggestion of the independent, Taoiseach’s nominee Senators, taken up and ratified by the Leader.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was on that committee and, as Senator Bacik said, the committee recommended that the age would be reduced to 16 years and made some other very fine recommendations. It is timely.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Mr. Aidan Hogan and Mr. Francis Ducie because they said one of the most important things to be said here today, which was about real communication and that it is absolutely imperative that people have a right to proper, understandable communication when so many laws and so much of our discourse is obfuscation and lack of clarity. They raised this point as something Senators...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to ask Mr. Rowe a question. He spoke as though Catholic education and schooling was the road to the damned. I felt that was the inference of what he had to say. Is he saying that children of no religion or other religions who happen to be in Catholic schools cannot flourish within those schools? Knowledge - the arts, history, geography, music - supercedes what Mr. Rowe suggests is...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. I have a bread and butter question. Will the witnesses provide four examples of how Travellers are discriminated against? I ask for real examples, as opposed to philosophical, sociological or linguistic examples.

Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State. I also thank my colleague, Senator David Norris, for seconding the motion and Senators Jillian van Turnhout and Mary Ann O'Brien who were part of the Taoiseach's cabal for speaking to the motion. I thank the Government for withdrawing its amendment which I appreciate more than it knows. It was brave, perceptive and good to do. About one year ago I was doing...

Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move: That Seanad Éireann –- conscious that almost 29,000 people die each year in Ireland and 290,000 people are newly bereaved; - aware that contributors to the recent hearings on palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children identified that end-of-life issues are wider than health care;calls on the Government to put in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wonder if the witnesses would like to respond-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: ----- to Senator Power's contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Right of reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I do not want to get involved in this argument. I have not been to Bahrain. I have read about it and I have listened to my colleagues. Is education not meant to be about, above and outside politics? Is not one of the principles of education to be about knowledge, training, skill and the development of freedom? I agree with Professor Kelly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I never said there were. I said it is a philosophy of education that we strive towards that. In our own country we strive towards that. It is not an "or" or a "not"; we strive towards.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Leyden for his compliments on my work on RTE. He is right, I do find a great spirit among Irish people around the country. Sometimes it is above and away from politics because that is how it survives. Sometimes we speak in jam jars around here. I wonder would he have been so effusive had it not been in his own area of Castlerea in County Roscommon. Had it been in north...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think equally-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Leyden. That is where the compliments end. I thought it very sad to be sitting in my room listening to Fianna Fáil Members trying to take on, and get rid of, the most reforming and excellent Minister of this State, for the wrong reasons. It is one thing to try to take somebody out but another to do it for the wrong reasons. It was equally pathetic to listen to Sinn...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are correct. He was an excellent Commissioner and he decided to retire for family reasons. Either he did that or he did not but we are sitting around here in Parliament effectively calling him a liar by saying there was some other reason. That is the reason he gave us, as the Irish people, and that is the reason we are to accept.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is my opinion-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are all forgetting that the Garda Síochána did this to itself. Some of its members did this to themselves. I have had the pleasure of meeting the greatest gardaí all over this country.