Results 2,121-2,140 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Fianna Fáil rained on our parade for 12 years. We are only cleaning up and bringing out a bit of sun.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator O'Brien will not talk about raining on people's parade.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Some 1.2 million people work in the SME sector in this country. Why am I meeting directors, CEOs and heads of business who are not getting working capital from the banks, are being delayed decisions, are being left for months wondering where the next wages are coming from, and are waiting months for negative decisions? Why am I at the same time witnessing the devastation of rural Ireland?...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Barrett might agree with me that the banks are not interested. SMEs have gone off the radar because of the great European stress test. They are all trying to clean up there.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like the Minister to come in here and tell us why the banks have not loaned to those who need it and where the money has gone. We can talk about Google and Kerry Co-op, both wonderful organisations, but we must talk about the 90,000 companies of five to eight people which will be devastated, and which are being devastated, by banks. I cannot tell the House about my anger about the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, I want the Minister of State, Deputy Perry, in here to tell me the facts about what is happening with small businesses in Ireland which are the core of our economy, and without whom, by the way, the banks do not exist. Let us discuss that as opposed to the weather, thank you Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The stupidity of Senator O'Brien knows no bounds.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yourself and your point of order. Sit down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Should we follow the US on its military powers abroad?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have heard it all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Barrett for raising a real issue in the House this afternoon. Sitting in the Seanad talking about the weather is not what we should be at.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What?
- Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I agree.
- Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Gerard Manley Hopkins also wrote a poem of that name.
- Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and thank Senator van Turnhout for bringing this matter to the House. In 1994, 20 years ago, a man called Neil Postman wrote a book called The Disappearance of Childhood. In the opening of his book he wrote:As I write, twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are amongst the highest-paid models in America. In advertisements in all the visual media, they are presented to...
- Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Unemployment of their educated children and a aeroplane trip to Australia will convince them.
- Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sorry to have interrupted him.
- Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State, for whom I have two questions. The first question relates to Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI - I call it "The Bridge on the River Kwai" because it is a way I can remember it. We know what happened to that bridge; it was well built but blew itself up in the end. The question also relates to the education and training boards, the city guilds and...
- Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Wilson raised the matter.
- Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (5 Mar 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Most of us are present.