Results 941-960 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, some Senators present in the Chamber were supporting Senator Warfield but may not have spoken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know the gallery, which is stunning. I have been there on many occasions and as such I congratulate Ms McHugh and wish her the best of luck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think we are a visually illiterate country. I do not mean that with regard to great paintings, but about where we live, what buildings we put up and what we think look like nice houses. We are appalling with regard to where we ask people to actually survive for their lives or even where they live when they get old. We have no proper architecture at all. It is all half-copied. Ms McHugh...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----to paint when they were young, because they were working in other areas. What does Ms McHugh think would be her greatest strength, coming to the board as the chair? I know her background is in corporate affairs, taxation and accounting. What does she think her greatest strength is going to be with her board and sub-committees? It is all going to come from her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What does Ms McHugh understand by "participating in cultural life"? People say that, write it in great treatises and put it on the top of reports, that is, "we hope people will participate in cultural life". That is always discussed in politics. What does Ms McHugh understand by that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Forget about the other person. We are talking about Ms McHugh and her passion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How would Ms McHugh go about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a very important point because it will not just happen with a marketing manager. One must sit and think of really creative, imaginative and evocative ways to invite one's own people in and make it a place where they go or think of as a place to be or to engage with. That takes passion and a lot of imagination and thought. It is very exciting because the gallery is asking its own...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My last question is about ownership. I cannot believe the ETB owns the collection - not that it does not deserve it. I do not mean that. Where is that line and how much would it cost to buy it out? How does the gallery get the collection and move it to itself through the OPW? What happens there? Where is the gallery in that process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why has it not happened then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was only a hub.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I might ask Ms McHugh to come back and tell us how the gallery is doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Robert Ballagh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is terribly important an institution such as the Crawford Gallery is completely independent in its ideas, passion, imagination, creativity and artistry. There is a development regionally and rurally but there is a trend towards a Tesco-ising of the arts. I have a feeling about this in that everything will happen everywhere almost at the same time and that we will all believe in this word...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is everywhere I look. We are all singing the same verse of the song.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a bus company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would be delighted and privileged to get one. We were wondering who would get one. We thought it would be the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Please do. We would be happy to pay for them individually.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can I ask a question?