Results 1,161-1,180 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Pardon?
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: My apologies, unused as I am to this great leadership.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Thank you. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to give Senators a heads up on the Peter Cassells' report. I found the report somewhat fascinating. After two years they could come up with only three elements of how third level education could be funded. This is extraordinary: either keep the current fee system and raise the fees, abolish the fees...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: People's ability to pay and the means testing of what people are actually doing in our universities have been ignored completely and entirely.I would like some proof that the universities need all this money.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a chorus to my left, which was not in my play.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: At the same time-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would just like to know how much more funding they actually need. Could we have an in-depth analysis of that and could we have proper means testing? How come a report like this did not touch on it and how did we only come up with three solutions, two of which were already there? Some 90 young doctors have just qualified from NUIG and they are all going to Australia. The taxpayer has...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is good to see the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, in the House. The charities legislation has had an outrageous historical journey and this has been going on since the mid-1990s. The Department of Justice and Equality sat on it for years, it next arrived at other Departments and it then came back to the Department of Justice and Equality. The Bill has been...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Tánaiste for attending and assuring me that Part 4 will be commenced on 5 September. The challenge is significant, but there is also a challenge to the Government not to delay or shelve. The 8,000 charities and 12,500 organisations are performing a public service and the Government rightly backs them, so it is up to it to protect the money that it and the ordinary person on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I cannot hear what the Senator is saying with the amount of traffic that is taking place in the House, and I want to hear her point. The Senator is trying to get above the noise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a train station.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the discussions at BIPA are anything like the comments the Senator has just made, they will not get far.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very difficult to hear the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Excuse me, I cannot hear the Leader speaking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Leader inquire of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act will be commenced? During my five years in the previous Seanad it was possibly one of the greatest human rights Bills to come before the House. Unfortunately, when asked by our national broadcaster just before Christmas what was happening in the House,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I second what my colleague, Senator Craughwell, had to say. This is the Upper House of the State's Legislature. Some people may not view it as that, but I do. I respect it and am privileged and grateful to be here. I intend to use the House in a civil way. It is not a place for the shouting, catcalling and booing that we heard yesterday. It is a place of argument, discussion, debate,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome Bloomsday, which celebrates a great writer. James Joyce's imagination and creativity made him an exile and he chose to live outside of this country. His departure was a great loss to us, although he remembered Dublin. Interestingly, it has been said that if Dublin was laid to waste, Ulysses could be used to reconstruct the city because it is so topographically and geographically...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his election. He was well chosen and brings experience and integrity to the role. He is a great listener and is fair. I would also like to congratulate Senator Jerry Buttimer on his appointment as Leader. He has the qualities to make the Twenty-fifth Seanad, which comprises an elected group of powerful people, come alive...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Would be possible to get answers to some of those questions, which are quite important, rather than having somebody coming in with four more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will there be more responses?