Results 821-840 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Which Minister did the witness meet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In that case, why is the matter before this committee? I heard-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was being facetious. The witness did not answer my question. There is an impasse. Does she feel the relevant bodies can come together-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The witness has an answer of sorts because we are discussing it here today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is the Save Cork City group likely to take the issue to Europe to question it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, the issue has been already discussed as a Commencement matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I beg your pardon.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister was in the House. I listened to him speak for 20 minutes on the monitor in my office.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to point out that I was not and do not question anybody's independence of thought. I am also not questioning the order and form generally outside of the bobbing up and down and the repetition. I am questioning the Order of Business and its form and regulation. I am requesting that those who-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know, but I just want to make myself clear. I took the Leas-Chathaoirleach's advice and wrote to the CPP about it. I feel that those who are not part of a group should be afforded the same time as others, on a first come, first served basis, rather than always being at the bottom of the queue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not part of a group. I do not suggest a Senator in a group is not independent of thought, cognition or feeling, but if one is not in a group, one has to go to the bottom of a queue on the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know that and I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Unlike Senator McDowell, I did not have the advantage of Jesuit training in thinking, nor did I gain the confidence the Jesuits have instilled in many people throughout Ireland. I am a Loreto girl and I understand a lack of balance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have experienced this as a woman and I would never question the independence of the Independent group. I am just questioning the format.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I remind the Leader to call on the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, to come into the House to give us an update on the German and Kiwi banking models for our post office system. There has been a report and it is a very important issue. I say to all Independents, "May you well sail in your ship".
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Independent Independents.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator sounds like the badger in The Wind in the Willows.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He does; he pays a Whip.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is he talking about?