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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the Arts Council were to be given a gift of something what would that be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is separate insofar as it costs €6 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will they lose their autonomy when the Department - like Tesco - brings them all together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As long as it does not become a control mechanism where everyone must come together like a supermarket and stock the shelves in the same way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is something about that. We will see; it is a new initiative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Artists have to have freedom and the bringing together is not necessary in that they do it in any event. I am not sure about that parallel. I know there are great artistic things happening around the country and I wonder about the bandwagon element of what the Department is at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Deputy Michael Collins will have no problem now because he is going to get €5 million from Creative Ireland and the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is going to filter down to west Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am somewhat out of my depth here because I live in what RTÉ calls the capital, whatever it means by that. It is as if we were living on a Continent. From my background in the west, I concur with all my colleagues that this is an agricultural country. We forget it at our peril. We had a group of visitors in from the Czech Republic, led by Deputy Collins. They had travelled from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Would anyone like to respond to it? The discussion was quite interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was just a comment that it could be seen as an excuse or obfuscation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My point about health and safety may have sounded flippant. I was arguing it on the ground that it was rolled out all of the time when we should be discussing farmers' livelihoods and the use of energy and common sense. It is almost like a ritualistic rant - "It cannot be done because of health and safety" or "It must be done because of health and safety". It must be done for a thousand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for taking the time to come in. Perhaps it is my age, but even with all the governance in the world, if the behaviour of people in power structures is out of order, that is what it is. I am loath to get into more legislation, as Ms O'Loughlin said. I thought the survey was very interesting. It was very simple and concise. The witness complained that it was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I take that point. My point was that we are here because it is a highly controversial matter. My question was more general in nature. It is a very serious question. How does the Arts Council see it in more general terms? I would put the same question to the Department. It was not just in respect of this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The reason I asked the question is because I agree with Ms Pratschke that there is not enough conversation about the genius of the arts in our society. It happens only at times like this when gender quotas or controversial issues arise. We do not really infiltrate it. It is not even infiltrated through the Departments. It is not infiltrated thought education as a statutory and absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very important to say this in front of the witnesses. We rarely get representatives from the Department, the Arts Council and Equity appearing before the committee in one group. This is an opportunity, therefore, to say that there are members who really believe in the arts and who see them as fundamental to our heartbeat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: In isolation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are not respected.