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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is extraordinary, is it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Ms O'Grady.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a very difficult process and takes a long time. There is a place not for a subcommittee but for a get together. We could think of something we could bring together because this has so many elements. It is a big circle with many radii. Given that the Government might get through two budgets, we could get it on the floor of the Seanad. It will get through two budgets under the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am nailing my colours to the mast. We could probably get something on the floor of the Seanad or get some legislation in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How we do it is up to the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: To follow the Senator's comments, all artists need formal training to be artists, rather than doing it on a Saturday because there is nothing else to do. I completely disagree with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Indeed he did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He was formally trained at DramSoc in University College Galway. He was bilingual and a natural actor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Tough rubbish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Nothing as artistically interesting as here anyway.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Craughwell is seconding the Bill but our second speaker is Senator Ó Céidigh, who is sharing his time.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In a summary of Seanad reform, from 1937 to 2003 we had the O'Rourke report of 2004, the Committee on the Constitution in 1967, the O'Keeffe report in 1997, the Lenihan report in 2002, the Gormley report in 2009, the Crown Bill in 2013, the Zappone-Quinn Bill in 2013, the Fianna Fáil policy document in 2013, the Green Party policy document in 2015, the Constitutional Review Group in...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not quorate at the moment.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not quorate at the moment. We do not have enough Senators in here for a quorum. Maybe we do not need a quorum for something like this but I would consider it very important. I would point out that legislation was passed by the Seanad in respect of a franchise for graduates of third level institutions and universities to have a vote. Unless I am wrong that legislation was passed by...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, we are not quorate.