Results 2,261-2,280 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- 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: What does that mean?
- 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: So it has not really got off the ground yet?
- 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: How is that being done?
- 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 okay.
- 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: I understand the answer.
- 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: I have raised many issues. Who is in charge of the process?
- 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 there a room with a sign saying "Gateway" over the door?
- 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 only other question concerned the letters, and that has been partially answered. Nobody has refused the offer yet.
- 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: What about the defeatist element of the three-year period?
- 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: I would like to focus on the Gateway initiatives. Like Deputy Daly, I believe this is a brilliant idea. I was not aware it was initiated by Deputy Daly. Currently, people are living in their heads and watching television, with no physicality, which is part of the problem. I do not believe it has been communicated well enough to the public that this initiative is about another way of...
- 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: I accept that, but order is one thing and speeches are another.
- 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: This is not a complaint, it is an observation. Of course we want questions to be answered, but we do not want to sit here listening to nine, 11 or 12 minute speeches from committee members. Ask questions so we can get answers.
- 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: You did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very good to be here this morning and I am very informed by what I have just heard. I will address my questions to Ms Angela Edghill of the Irish Hospice Foundation. I am afraid of dying so having the group here is interesting; we cannot choose when we are born but all must die so it is a major part of our living lives, particularly if we can die well. The submission concerned...
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would restore the arts as a core subject because we do not live in our heads; we live and work with our bodies. Dance is an example of that. I was fascinated that all the Senators were quoting Tom Collins's newspaper article. He is a fine gentlemen. I think that he was the president of Maynooth where I did - I may be showing off in saying this - one of my degrees. It was a fine...
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We could do with a bit of more fun and joy in here. Education is about joy and energy and igniting things. We are sitting around like old men like Methuselah discussing the issue.
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State. I am a "quare" old historical source like Methuselah. I have been an educationalist all my life, so I was arguing a counteraction to this wind of change for change's sake, with not a lot of thought process. My arguments were philosophical and outside the vested interests that I hear sometimes in the Seanad, philosophy may be what saves us. I will let...
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does the Senator know who said it?
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Edmund Burke.
- Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thought the Senator would know that but please excuse the interruption.