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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: How does one marry that with the natural, temporary nature of the work because of its creativity and the moving on to different films? Is it through a holding company to which Ms Walker referred? How does one go about creating that security of tenure when, by its very nature, it moves all the time and it changes all the time like an actress in the theatre? We do not have any permanent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who are the organisations in dialogue with? Why does Mr. Ward think this is not happening? I ask that to be informed; I am not making an accusation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I refer to the dialogue impasse. The Chairman suggested that a representative could be appointed to the Irish Film Board. Where does the impasse stand in respect of those the representatives need to dialogue with? Do they have a part in that falling down? That is a non-accusative question based on my information. Why is there an impasse?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who would the IFWA be dialoguing with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The workers are falling between stools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not know if I am angry or confused now. There is part of me, listening to Mr. Arkins, that wants the Government to commit to the tax incentives past the year 2020 for the film industry, and there is another part of me that wants what the Government gives to the world of film to be held on to, and to maintain the current format. I want that to happen yet at the same time we have this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: How good is the momentum behind Mr. Arkin's organisation? Is there much momentum or force behind him in terms of names and numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Are the other 77 grades listening to him? Are the other unions, or other parts of the unions, listening?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I agree with the Minister of State. The amendment is a bit naive. It presumes that colleges, now to become technological universities, would not have a qualitative educational ethos which would be their underlying focus. There would be thousands of radii from that, whether creative, artistic, cultural, scientific, technological, apprenticeships or whatever. It is indicative in the Bill...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, if it was, the sentence would be a contradiction. Universities about education, educereand educate, to draw out and to gift. That is what they are for. They are not about having a profit. That might happen at postgraduate level. I am not saying it would not be innovative. That is the difference with the entrepreneurial language. I think it is indicative. The qualitative education...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It would be better if we put in the words "qualitative education" because that is what this is about.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not want to make it because it is indicative.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Excuse me. Do not roar at me. It is indicative. It is there in the Bill. It jumps out of most of the sentences in the Bill. The Senator could put in the word "artistic", "free" or other words. The amendment is naive because it confines things. It is confining as opposed to liberating.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is. The Senator thinks that a certain wording or language will give it openness. It will not. The words "qualitative education" will give it any language the Senator wants because that is well-defined.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The wording of the amendment is confining.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is the amendment.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thought, because I was listening to the debate in my room up until a few minutes ago, that one of the reasons we would push the amendments to Report Stage was that we would deal with them then rather than hold the Bill back now. I agree that the amendments are not being accepted now but I thought they would come back on Report Stage.Was that what the other Senators wanted? They were going...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, that was the reason some of the amendments were being semi accepted now but to be looked at again on Report Stage. Am I correct on that?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot hear what Senator Norris is saying. The microphone is low.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am inclined to agree with the Senator. I taught for 34 years at third level and it was always a part of the third level process that the president of the student union sat on academic councils. Perhaps I am wrong but I thought it was a prerequisite that the president of the student union would sit on the academic council, whatever about the governing body, which is different. There were...