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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, was the Senator here for, or is he aware of, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill, which answers all his fears?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is the Senator aware of the Bill, which was passed here and in the Lower House and which prevents the very thing he is talking about?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do we have to listen to this drivel?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did, and I had them passed.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I had some of my amendments to the Bill passed and I was here for the whole debate on the Bill, which Senator Mullen was not.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Read the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish everybody a very happy new year. May all their gods go with them, in whatever way they come over the next few months. I support Senator Whelan. It is interesting that it is Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Independent Members who are coming together on this side of the House to find out how we can boil town-wide tankers of used oil in Portlaoise, whose smell has a huge effect on...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, in an effort to be kind. In regard to what Senator Craughwell said, there is no rise in the number of dropouts at second level or correlation between the number and a decrease in guidance counsellors.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a statistical point. The Senator cannot make generalisations like that when they are statistically incorrect.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not correct.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is one of the most unbelievable and absurd Private Member's motions to come before this House. Senator O'Brien has said that it is probably one of the last Fianna Fáil motions to be put to the House before the election but were I in his party, I would have moved something else. I would have asked, for example, what Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thought that would get them going.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my first point but Senator O'Brien is not here to respond to that.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If I were Senator Landy I would have been asking that question. I would have been asking what we should do to restore the peoples' faith in us and how we could communicate that because the party's communications network seems to be very wishy washy at present. I would point to three major elements in the Water Services Act that are very interesting and must be revisited. The first is the...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Fianna Fáil voted against the three core elements of the Bill which hold Irish Water in the arms of the Irish people. That takes some beating. I know that Fianna Fáil is basically not fit for purpose. Nobody has a divine right to water but we do have a right to clean water. That is what Irish Water is about, it is about our streams, rivers and coasts. We polluted them and...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It Members in the Seanad have tabled a Private Members' motion, which equates to them taking their eye of the ball, or the ballcock in this instance. They are not fit for purpose because they have not discussed what is it that we most need to do for the Irish people over the next few months. This certainly is not it. Its members voted against the core principles the Government was trying...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Government was also trying to clean up the pollution in our lakes, streams, coasts and homes in order that people can have access to clean water, which is their right. Fianna Fáil is not fit for purpose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Apropos of what Senator Craughwell said, is there anything we can do? It is so devastating watching it, but there is also something glorious about it - the way people and communities came together. It just shows what can happen with the energy of people - despite politics and bureaucracy, they will still get things done. Do the officials believe the €235,000 the Department has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wonder how far that helps when people face four ft. of water and cannot live in their houses. Is there anything the committee can do to shake up the means testing or make it more generous? I do not suggest those administering the scheme are not being generous or are not trying their best, but is there any way we can help? They have said they have a fund of €10 million or that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a lot and raises the question of the cap of €70,000. That cap is laughable.