Results 741-760 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am a great believer that Government has to be led from the outside by people who know what they are doing. I am a great believer in those working on the ground from the writer right down to the rigger because Governments and Ministers change. Does Mr. Hickey see that Screen Training Ireland would have any connection with the Department of Education and Skills in the development of highly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will carry on. The whole area of building skilled apprenticeships is exactly what Ms McGrane is talking about in another way. The permanency and non-haphazard level of skilled apprenticeship is not coming out of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Its seat and its well is finding its way creatively, industrially or agriculturally, within the Department of Education and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is Ms McGrane's solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: So there is a progression.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It has always fascinated me that we have got to the stage where we are thinking and living in our heads. I have watched the university system over 30 years and it grew into a place that one would go to university to learn how to make a film. A person went to learn the sociology, the philosophy or the psychology of film or the brilliance of film and learn about the literature and writing of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is good. I am a great believer in that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is no one in it. It is in NAMA, is it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: One is for a building. The Acting Chairman's analogy does not stack up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just wanted to make two points. I am in a dilemma here, because sometimes the precarious nature of a job is its creativity. Within the arts, people like to move, change or travel, to get different experiences, work with different directors or writers and so on. That applies whether they are people doing hair or the main director. The witnesses are right that precarious nature is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a philosophical point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was talking about personal creative choice.
- Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have written down what I want to say because it is very short. I favour the repeal of the eighth amendment of the Constitution. However, this is a very profound, powerful and personal issue. It very much depends on the legislative and constitutional proposals that will arise from repealing and replacing the provision. Repealing the eighth amendment puts more than one cart before the...
- Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator should be allowed to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Ms McBride for her excellent opening statement. While I acknowledge that part of being a member of the committee is to be educated and informed, one could have read her statement in a pamphlet. As for decision-making, accounts, plenary councils and peer panels and application processes, I am aware the Arts Council does things absolutely correctly but I would have liked more funding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a very important point because it seems contradictory for the Arts Council to spend 70% or 80% of its time on dealing with applications and getting the funding out. It does not have the same emphasis on who and what it is, as Ms McBride described it, dealing with disability, children, age, for example, the Bealtaine Festival for older people. Is that changing and if so how quickly?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That would be interesting because it seems to undermine who and what the Arts Council is and the good work it does, that we do not hear enough about what it is doing because 70% or 80% of its time it is bogged down in reading the applications and making governance decisions based on quality. Would Ms McBride agree with that? How does the council get out of that?