Results 301-320 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is Mr. Conlon confident that it will be reinstated? He will be at this meeting on Friday to discuss all the things he spoke about such as communication, open auditions, freelance directors, writers-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This other person is not a member of the committee and has a tendency to arrive late in the evening as another pantomime villain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Politics does not have to be dull.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Nobody answered my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What Ms Pratschke has said is so true. As they were walking down the corridor somebody told me not to go to the Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht because there were no votes in it. It is important because it is the ruin-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What Ms Pratschke has said is completely correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did Mr. Conlon get a good response from the public? Did he feel the public was behind him? We read the letters. We might have been informed in a different way here through The Irish Timesand the media. Did he feel the public was behind his group? Did he get the sense of a wave?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will finish on this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a question, but an observation. I wanted to congratulate Mr. Murray in another way. Some philistines I hang out with, who have never crossed the Abbey door, have been to the Abbey because of the productions that have been staged and they loved it. It is very important to say that we are not here to judge. That is the positive nature of it. Also I note the forces the theatre...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a star turn on "Double Your Money".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am kidding, but he did say it. I used to meet him quite a lot at the theatre before he became Taoiseach. He is very genuinely interested in the arts. The arts are our heartbeat and without them we are lesser human beings, educationally, performance-wise and observationally. There must be a huge surge against these forces to actually make the arts central. Funding is extraordinarily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, that is another speech.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sorry, Chair. It is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Troubadours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Chairman for giving me time. I am not a member of the committee and I bow to the better judgment, knowledge, experience and reading of my colleagues. I want to make an observation. We all know there is huge anger among the public but from an objective point of view, this anger is also about the fact we have nurses who cannot live in our country because they are underpaid so we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Breslin will forgive me if I am repeating myself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not understand Mr. Breslin's answer. Is it on a flat fee or a percentage of the cost? In terms of a flat fee, I am not talking about getting a little drumlin halfway down the road. What is it on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What percentage is it on because I get the impression it is on something?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is possibly the most nebulous thing I have heard for a long time. Is it the same for mechanical, electrical and engineering?