Results 2,621-2,640 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are two inquiries.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did we ask for the Senator's advice?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: As the Cathaoirleach was not here last week, he may be glad to hear for the first time-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was standing up for the Leader last night.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator very much. I have said that if we are to play and beat the banks at their own game, we must possibly take our business elsewhere. I suggest to the Seanad we start with the post office and credit unions. As a Senator, I cannot accept that the Government is unable to do anything about the pensions of the great, the good and the Gods. Why are we part of a Government that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to invite the Minister for Finance to the House for two reasons. We have all listened to roaring and bawling about the director of the Bank of Ireland, Mr. Richie Boucher. I know I am not allowed to say his name. He is the director and his name is in the public domain. With all of the other bailed out banking boys who have brought us to our knees, he appeared before the Joint...
- Seanad: Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate the Minister on producing what is an outstanding Bill. It is one of the best Bills to be placed before my eyes since I became a Senator 18 months ago. I say this because it goes to the heart of what we want or would like to be as a nation. It is extremely well written, explained, outlined and referenced. I disagree, therefore, with the idea that it is vague. It is perhaps...
- Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Taoiseach to the Upper House and am delighted to see him. I feel I should speak because he gave me the privilege of having a voice, as one of his appointees. However, in doing so, he might have a fight on his hands with regard to the closure of the Seanad because I do not think that is going to happen. I only have one minute but one minute with a powerful voice is worth a...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am pleased the Minister is here for purposes of clarification and communication and if Senator Byrne had spent less time giving out to us about him the Minister would have more time to answer the Senator's questions. I am in deep despair much of the time when I talk about the banks but there is one question I would like to ask the Minster, namely, if the banks are shops, which he rightly...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to share my time with the leader of the Independent group. I welcome the Minister to the House. I compliment him on his work and congratulate him on the evident progress on banking debt and sovereign debt. I want to ask some general questions and make some general observations. As I know very little about high finance and less about economics, I do so as a citizen who just happens to...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Have certain executives fooled Mr. Elderfield as they fooled his predecessors in the past? How are some of these individuals still in place? The State has given â¬3.7 billion to Bank of Ireland, for example, while a Canadian investor has put â¬1.1 billion into that bank. However, the latter's share of the business, at one third, is larger than the State's shareholding of 12%. On what...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to support Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, as a new Senator I find it incongruous and unconscionable that strangers would come in here on Monday between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to debate the abolition or the retention of the Seanad when the Labour Party and Fine Gael were not able to do it yesterday.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, every Senator should come in here on Monday and resume their seats.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the-----
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I support the motion that the future of the Seanad should be part of the constitutional convention. Why would that be so wrong? What is it about that proposal that Fine Gael and Labour do not want to do it? Have Fine Gael and Labour no faith in the Seanad? Have they no faith in its past, its present and its future? What does the Government really want? If it wants the abolition of the...