Results 541-560 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I could speak again on the amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I might as well be talking to the footpath every day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, not if I get a guarantee that the debate will take place this week.We will have a major gap because the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill will not come to the House. There might not be a gap in the diary of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten. I will not press the amendment if we can deal with it this week. I want to get an answer. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will withdraw it if I get a commitment. I accept what the Leader is saying but I need a genuine commitment that this is not going to be pushed out week after week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is most refreshing to be around colleagues and what John McGahern called freshwater people. People who work in the arts are always freshwater people - good trout. I thank all the witnesses for being here because we got from them a really tremendous sense of the arts as it relates to youth, education, lifelong learning and the elderly. I will ask a few very specific questions and then...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am looking at and listening to rubbish every day on the television and on the radio. Why do I not know more about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Ms Moran should look at postgraduate students of communications and consider giving them projects and MAs as a communication force or platform for it. The things the programme has done could be given as a project to the school of communications in Dublin City University, DCU, or the school of communications in Cork. I would love to see it. I am not saying to act like a lady of the night,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. I referred to Departments as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It should get funding from a number of Departments, not just the HSE. That is my point. Is there a place for it to be explicit within Departments that arts play a part in everybody's life and that they might not have the problems of this, that and the other if they looked at the arts in the way the witnesses have described?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, it does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the Chairman will indulge me, I have a question for McAuley Place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: But it will be worth it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will McAuley Place mention a few more things, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If we are all still here next May.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The reason I asked Ms O'Neill Collins about quality was to give her an opportunity to comment on it. I was not questioning it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does Professor Jordan think it is evident?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We were paired in order that our absence from the Seanad would not affect the outcome of the votes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would never have voted with the Senator.