Results 281-300 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Be careful now.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not going to be accused like this, namely, by inference.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not going to happen.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are living in "Jurassic Park".Let us get real here. The Government had three choices to make: to pause the project; to retender; or to agree to proceed and continue with probity, which is what we have done. We all accept on this side that the cost is too high and unacceptable. Then again, as Senator Colm Burke rightly said, let us paint a picture that is true regarding the new national...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will make one point about Theresa May. What happened last night was possibly the greatest example of reneging in the history of politics. I wish to take up what Senator Ardagh said about the nurses. I look around at the nurses on strike, their reasons for doing so, the 262 consultant posts that have not been filled, consultants in Irish hospitals who have not gone through the registered...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for their varied presentations but I am a little confused and I have a number of questions. At the Joint Committee on Health yesterday, of which I am not a member but which I attended, they were arguing about the fact that we are spending €1.7 billion on a hole in the ground. I was delighted to be able to tell them, like a pantomime villain, that we were all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: ------because the training has not been there. I am not talking about the training where people have trained since they were a child. A young actor has to get a chance so I am not talking about that. There is something wrong about a national theatre that subscribes to everything to which Yeats subscribed, that has produced international world-class actors, some of whom are sitting opposite...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Abbey Theatre is the national theatre. I am not talking about the Lir Academy, which I know about. I am asking what your opinion is about having a training school in the national theatre called the Abbey Theatre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I disagree with that but that is my own opinion. I do not disagree about the Lir Academy but I disagree that the national theatre, about which we are all making great philosophical statements, has no training aspect to it. Where is its ethos then? This is a private conversation for another day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is its ethos if it starts coming in from the carnivals from afar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my rant. I became an old age pensioner. I am 66 years of age, so I will say what I like now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: To rebalance it where?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does Ms McBride see any link to what I am saying about the Abbey having its own training house?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not saying that. I am asking whether Ms McBride sees any link to what she is saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Ms McBride is effectively saying that the Abbey has just become a receiving house.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is Ms McBride saying that the Abbey has forgotten what its entire ethos or point is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is just another way of saying what I have said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was asking Mr. Conlon that question. Through the Chair, is he confident that this might happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He was about to.