Results 2,141-2,160 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a vote. Does Mr. Walsh have the fan? There is a fan for everybody there? There is the example of the fan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: And a big fan. Does Mr. Walsh agree that a caste system between vocational education and what one would deem academic education has built up? I think what everybody is saying is absolutely wonderful but I want to know how QQI is going to address that. How will we go about addressing that in middle school? I believe a person can do the leaving certificate and go on to be a forester, a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is as if all these stakeholders are starting a new department of education. I enjoyed Mr. Sheridan's excellent, relevant study which locked right into the chief inspector's report. One of the most negative findings of the latter report was exactly what all these young people are saying in the summary about a lack of information about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It has the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome Ms Pratschke and wish her the best of luck as chairman designate of the Arts Council. She may be a somewhat inspired choice, having come from the background in film writing and international culture. I am delighted she is to take up this position and wish her the best of luck in the role. I have found this meeting quite joyless. The arts is about joy and it was a bit too...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----but it does not make me weaker. The arts has sometimes played a second, if not a third or a fourth, role in education and the Arts Council has a huge part to play in perhaps developing the role of the arts in education. What are Ms Pratschke's thoughts on that? I am delighted to hear Ms Orlaith McBride is working alongside the Department of Education and Skills on a new charter...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not get an answer to the question I asked of Ms Doreen McMorris. I was told what the inspectorate did with its Northern Ireland equivalent but not what it learned. Perhaps the witnesses might revert to me on that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There were a few other questions too. However, I will send them to the inspectorate, if that is all right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In one way the chief inspector is right to have self-assessment of the system in the schools yet the internal assessment within the subject practice is weak. It is a gap, and I saw it in the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: None of my questions has been answered so far.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Or generally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Or Irish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Or maths.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am in no hurry to get to the Seanad Chamber for the debate on greyhound racing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I can ask my questions now if Dr. Hislop wishes to take them all together and if Deputy Charlie McConalogue does not object.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality and Standards in Schools: Chief Inspector at Department of Education and Skills (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is evaluation ever of any use if it is announced in advance? What lessons have been learned from the experience in Northern Ireland and will Dr. Hislop provide one or two examples in this regard? In the context of what Senator Mary Moran stated, why are there so few inspections of the teaching of the arts? Some 783 inspections took place of the teaching of Irish, 700 of English and 800...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Progamme Fees: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would not like Mr. Vaughan to think for one minute that even though I might agree with QQI and its fee structure, I would not lean towards helping those who are furthest away from possibilities and furthest away from getting an opportunity in the main game. My argument was about people who may be pre-school, that we are back to that level and the efforts by the Government to raise that bar...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Progamme Fees: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The issue is very young.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Progamme Fees: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We shall hold Ms O'Brien to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Progamme Fees: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (19 Feb 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a problem.