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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I join my colleagues in condemning the murderous actions of Israel over the weekend. Senator David Norris is right about using drones to kill the Palestinians. I had the privilege of visiting Jenin, Hebron and Ramallah a year ago. I think it was the greatest education the Seanad has offered me, given what I saw and who I met. The Palestinians are a great people, a brilliant people, but a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Chair, can I just make one point? I was interested in what the Údarás was saying about entrepreneurship and that synergy. Perhaps Mr. Ó Tuairisc is familiar with this where a new theatre company such as Fíbín arrives and is supported and where the loss of two or three jobs might be avoided. The loss of three jobs, because the Fíbín application was turned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are restricted by the Arts Council anyway because they only have the €65 million and they have to give it out to 1,000 different organisations. I do not mean that in a bad way. They are restricted and should be receiving €120 million funding so that we could create all of those projects. In the meantime one cannot say that business or entrepreneurship cannot have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Ó Coinn should not row back from his argument at all. His argument stood and it was excellent. It should be on par, not decreasing. I would not row back from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is fine as Gaeilge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was very impressed by the Gweedore example that was given. However, music is a universal language and that sometimes takes over from the fact that the oral arts, literature, the speaking of our language and the understanding of the spoken word and the work the Chair mentioned is equally as important. It is fantastic that the witnesses have done so much work on that, that people are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Gabh mo leithscéal, níl a lán Gaeilge agam ach táim á fhóghlaim agus á labhairt. Bhí mé ábalta an Ghaeilge a labhairt when I was very young, but as everyone was saying, without the use of it, one loses it. One has the language but one does not have the conjunctions and one cannot put it together. If the witnesses do not mind, I will speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: All of our witnesses seem to have very militant voices like our Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The witness can answer in Irish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is no translation coming through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My point was that we are learning while the group is doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Na hEalaíona agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (Atógáil) (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What funding did the company receive this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (9 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As the Chairman knows, there is a matter I would like to raise.

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I attended a conference on Saturday called HeadSpace2018 at Trinity College. It was about how people should use creativity as they grow older, and how creativity can hold onto elders in a way they should be held onto and how their quality of life as they get older can depend more on creativity than on finance and security. In the middle of it - there is a reason I am telling this story - a...

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: When I was in school there was conversion around the way we thought. Shame and sin took precedence over affection and loving. It was all about shame and guilt. Our idea of the Christ or God was to do with pain, purgatory and limbo. Our history was confined to how we were affected as opposed to what we emanated. I do not like the term because it was not until I got to university that I...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the report by Helen Boaden on RTÉ's symphony and concert orchestras entitled Ensuring a Sustainable Future. However, I do not think that is really the problem. In looking through the report, RTÉ talks about how funding the orchestras presents a challenge to its financial circumstances and the fact that, as the national broadcaster, it is legally required to maintain...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----and that they are the pinnacle of what other communities are trying to do through the power, elevation, energy and vitality of music. We cannot argue whether there should be this, that or the other. They must be part of our cultural heritage and musical life - our expressive life.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If they are to be in RTÉ then they are to get the money to be ring-fenced and developed so that the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra can travel. At the moment the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra cannot travel and it has been reduced to 68 players. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra cannot do a lot of things because it does not have the money. It is an outrage that we cannot argue for them on the...