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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It takes four hours to get to Mayo.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yesterday, I pointed out that outside our gates were members of our older generation who had lost pensions, phone, light, heat, VHI and bereavement and funeral expenses. Individually, these were small amounts, but they add up. These people were outside protesting yesterday. Young second time mothers have lost money, young families and the jobless have lost money. At the same time, and it...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I referred in particular to the construction industry.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator is not over here anymore.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is a different point of view. It is as follows: I personally would like to thank the plain people of Ireland for the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, for the budget. Because without the €405 million from the lottery, there would be no budget. That is what the Government got from Camelot and An Post for the lottery licence - €405 million. Over the past 25 years the lottery has made €12,000 million and every year it has given €232 million after it has paid out to good causes. Camelot got the lottery on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am. First, I want a Minister to come to the House to answer the question. As I listened to the budget I felt as if I was becoming like a larger lemon every five minutes because we gave €10 million to Priory Hall, which was the right thing to do for those people who were in that situation, but in spite of all the Priory Halls and ghost estates around the country, not one builder,...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The people who work for Intel are not unwell.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a spurious example.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a remedial comparison. The people who work in Intel are well; the people in hospital are unwell.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I mean the Senator's argument, not himself, unless he wants to be tied to it.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I said Senator MacSharry's example was remedial. This is completely over the top.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to come to the House to explain to us the details of the sale of the lottery licence. What are the details surrounding the €405 million we are to get upfront? Who is repaying what? What are An Post and Camelot putting in and what are we paying back for the upfront payment? What is the interest rate on the figure of €405...

Seanad: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney: Statements (3 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would first like to acknowledge Marie Heaney in the Gallery. I have always felt that Marie and Seamus Heaney were an ageless union. I know that her loss is profound and I am very grateful today to have the opportunity to hold her in our hearts and in our thoughts. In The Cure at Troy, which is a dramatisation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles's "Philoctetes", the chorus of elders speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Some 62% of them are leaving voluntarily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is this part of the youth guarantee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is the Department looking for funding within that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Department is not specifically targeting this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (2 Oct 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is fair enough.