Results 481-500 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Lest we be in any doubt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: As I have said a 1,000 times here, mobile phones should be banned from meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: When I hear Deputy Danny Healy-Rae speaking, I am reminded of the great plays of John B. Keane. I think I am listening to the Hiker, I really do. It is beautiful to hear him. People were giving out about his voice the other night on a stupid television programme but it is liquid gold because one is brought right back into the great plays of John B. Keane because he speaks with such melody...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a huge venue there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What authority does it have to stop it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why mention it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why mention it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to make two points. I have been making the first one here most afternoons. It is about the fact that we now have a new poor in Ireland. If one earns anything between €30,000 and €60,000 in Ireland and if one happens to be in the area of trades, teaching, health, retail or services, one cannot afford to live in one's own country if one is young. One cannot afford to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They also had a condition attached to their support. They said they would vote with the Government if the sentencing guidelines were included in the Judicial Council Bill 2017.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is happening to the Bill now is that it is collapsing. Senator Michael McDowell and the Independent group are entirely correct, as is the Labour Party, in respect of the GRECO report. We will see the report and if it is clean and freshwater, which it is, we will vote accordingly on the Bill itself, in which there are many good things with which I entirely agree. Generally, however, it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not relishing it today.
- Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was privileged to be part of the Bill. Senator Colm Burke led the way legally, parliamentarily and in every other way, language-wise, with the Bill.I learned a significant amount. The Minister is correct that Senator Burke, among others, has been waiting for two years for the Bill to be progressed. In the meantime, I wrote a big report for the Government on dying, death and bereavement...
- Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want to congratulate Senator Colm Burke because it is his Bill and we were privileged to be part of it. I thank him for including me. There were some marvellous speeches made on Second Stage, which ignited the Bill and encouraged the Government to prioritise it, which I was glad to see. I thank the Department and the Minister most sincerely because the amendments tabled were excellent...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Cathaoirleach who caught me unawares, which is unusual for me. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business again today because I am anxious the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, comes into the House to discuss community banking. I may be going on about this but there is not a Senator in this House or a Deputy in the Dáil who...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Norris will.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Keep them in our country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was not talking about jobs.