Results 401-420 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I put on the record how sad I was to hear about Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's death this morning. He was an extraordinary musician, a brilliant teacher and an outstanding composer, and he is a great loss to us because he was able to make Irish music like Mozart's music. It is a tremendous loss to the university, his postgraduate students and musical composition...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is true and they will not fill the vacancies. We can go through all of the policy areas on the future of work but if we do not have enough staff to run our hospitals and keep them open at weekends, I do not know what we are thinking about. We are obfuscating policy for practical application. It was the most unperceptive remark on people who are meant to be running this country. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: To think that the powers that be in the Lower House do not have the perception to know the problem-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sick of hearing about policy-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was present for the enactment of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 in spring 2015. Parts 2 and 3 of the Act govern family relationships arising from donor-assisted human reproduction, that is, the use of donor eggs, sperm or embryos to conceive children. They create a legal structure whereby the commissioning or social parents of children born through donor-assisted human...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was set up by the Taoiseach's nominees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was set up by the Taoiseach's nominees.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What about the post offices?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear a word that the Senator is saying.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: A few days ago, while a Senator was rightly berating the Government, probably on the grounds of its talent, ability, professionalism and resilience, he went on to call Deputy Lowry "a criminal." The Cathaoirleach was not here. It is important.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I certainly am.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will be very careful with what I say because I have already-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a good thing for Members of this Senate to stand up calling anybody "Fascists" or "Criminals" regardless of who they are or what their job is. It is bad enough that we come into the Senate and that nobody is listening to us because Members are on their phones, or writing home or whatever but I do not want to be part of a Senate where language such as that is used. If people have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are plenty of takers, but we will let the Chairman go first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome Tania Banotti as the new director of Creative Ireland. I have known her work for the past 20 or 25 years and congratulate her on getting this job, and I congratulate both Departments for being perceptive enough to give it to her. She will play a very distinctive role and make a distinguished career and contribution to the arts in other forms of creativity and imaginative...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. I am getting bowed down in the Doric pillars and what is what and where is what. Perhaps Ms Banotti might answer that and put our minds at rest. Perhaps somebody might write down what Creative Ireland is. We know what it is individually but we do not know what it is relative to the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht or the Department of Education and Skills. I agree...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a matter of points and we are back to mathematics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Creative Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I vehemently disagree with a point Mr. Moran made. Unless we give credence to the arts for children from the ages of nine, ten and 11, which we have not done for many years, and then from the ages of 14, 15 and 16, people will not take up the arts. In terms of young people being able to choose, be it a language or a passion for music or for visual arts, the Department should be far more...