Results 441-460 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a central point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are outside the pillar banks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Such as community banks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Deputy Eugene Murphy made an excellent suggestion about young people. I will go back again to my point about the pillar banks. A total of 70,000 young people have started in colleges of all kinds and their parents have to spend a fortune on their education. What happens to students is that when they qualify, the banks then put up the interest rate, which is crazy. They carry that...
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No. What about me?
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is outrageous that we are left like this.
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will try. I welcome to the Gallery many of our most distinguished guests about whom we are speaking. I am very privileged to be a Member of the Upper House and to be an Independent one. As legislators, all of us in this House are tasked with upholding, creating and developing laws which value life, equality, freedom, peace and the expectation of hope, meaning and happiness. It is...
- Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He did.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: And the Independent group.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Please.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is worse.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. I have not spoken all day.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will be quick.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I agree with Senator McDowell. The idea of only having a layperson as chair when the chairperson is absent is ridiculous. What the Senator is saying is that legal scholarship, knowledge and rigour are to just sit there and be silent because there can only ever be a layperson in the chair. I cannot believe what I am hearing. I suggest to the Minister that we are calling quorums every five...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not say that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If one is ostracised from being the chair, it is as good as being told to be quiet.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: By way of the National Transport Authority.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who thought that up?