Results 581-600 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Marie-Louise. House of Hapsburg.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator cannot-----
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I am sorry to stop the Leas-Chathaoirleach in full flight but can somebody tell me how we can be making all these decisions when there are only four of us sitting here? We have no quorum.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is exactly what we are doing.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are four of us here, we might as well be standing at a bus stop.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not chastising the Leas-Chathaoirleach nor would I think to do such a thing but there are only four of us.
- Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are like people standing at a bus stop and thinking they are in the Seanad.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Leader for facilitating my request to have the Minister come to the House and thank the Minister for taking the time to do so. I appreciate it. The big question is where lies An Post, the country's national treasure? Does it envisage becoming a full service bank like Kiwibank in New Zealand or the Sparkassen in Germany or does it plan further co-operation with the pillar banks?...
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not going to happen. Commercial banks in Ireland control our markets and our lives and they are predatory. The Minister has known for years that the post office network required investment and creative thinking, and the Government has failed. We have no State or community banks. AIB, Ulster Bank and Danske Bank will not become community banks, while Germany has 1,400 of them. If I...
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Everybody has forgotten what the State owes, what we are being paid back by these banks, what these banks did to everybody and the greed they inflicted on every household and person in Ireland. It is not the way to go. This is certainly not the way to go if it is not, at the same time, paralleled with piloting Sparkassen and-or Kiwibank.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Acting Chairman, but I was the one who asked the Minister in. It is hard to get banks out once they are in. We should pilot those other community banking structures at the same time and give the people choice. I am angry about this. I do not like it and it will not go away.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Which we need.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: AIB will look after us.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In the meantime, commercial banks-----
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear. Well done.