Results 2,341-2,360 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: These women are not here in evidence and Senator Healy Eames cannot interpret this and call it fact. That is my point.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Okay.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not suggesting Senator Healy Eames is. I am suggesting-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I have already gone through this. Was Senator Mullen listening?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have already gone through this, yet Senator Mullen is speaking about it as though I had not and putting my name to his thoughts.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We will have to wait for the Blacks.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was in my speech earlier.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister for his answers. I know that it is a profound issue and is very difficult. When I interrupted Senator Healy Eames, I only did so on the grounds that if we talk about happiness for one group and unhappiness for another group, we just need to provide examples. I was not trying to browbeat at all. According to the European Court of Human Rights, the foetus was viable in...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is her opinion.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, they presented to the Senator as happier, but not necessarily to the world.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not right to make those kinds of assessments or judgments.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Let her express a personal opinion, but not make it universal.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“ “fatal foetal abnormality” means a medical condition suffered by a foetus such that it is incompatible with life outside the womb;”.I spoke about the issue of fatal foetal abnormality last year, in respect of the D case in the European Court of Human Rights in 2006, which was...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Perhaps we could have a debate without seething anger. It would be a start.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We should not have any anger.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Every year, 4,000 to 5,000 Irish women go to England or other European countries for abortions. Those are the ones we know about as they provide their names and addresses. They are single, married and divorced women. They are of all ages and come from all parts of the country. They go for 4,000 to 5,000 individual human reasons. Over the last 30 years, at least 120,000 to 150,000 women...
- Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No.
- Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My look of surprise is because-----