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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not think that -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hold on a second. In the context of a means test, can the Chairman come up with a parallel national disaster? This is unprecedented flooding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I take your point Chairman but it is not a viable comparison.
- 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 viable comparison. A natural disaster and 4 ft. of water in one's house, with everything ruined, is not a viable comparison with what the Chairman is suggesting.
- 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 viable comparison.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is all very well and we understand that but that is not the right kind of balance in terms of providing an example. It is not the right-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are talking about a national disaster, with half the country under 4 ft. of water and people who have genuine needs in their day to day lives. That is not a valid comparison. It is not one or the other. This is an exceptional circumstance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know that.
- 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 fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Ms Faughnan did not say this in her speech.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: She did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: She stated a reduced level of support could be provided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I got that wrong because on page 2 of the submission Ms Faughnan states: “A reduced level of support can be provided in cases where such families have income over €70,000.” Maybe Ms Faughnan said something else earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I cannot find the word "tapered", which I associate with something other than what Ms Faughnan is talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It states:For example, a family consisting of a couple and two children with a gross household income of €70,000 or less will receive 100% of the amount allowable in respect of their application. A reduced level of support can be provided in cases where such families have income more than €70,000. That is the only reason I asked the question. I do not know where the tapering...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I read the printed version before I came in. I absolutely accept what Ms Faughnan says and the work she is doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That should have been in black and white because that is a very important point as the scale rises. It should have been in the submission.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I disagree with Senator Conway. It is very important to reach some sense of perfection, given that human rights is about this. We must start at the top, not half way or three quarters of the way up. Heterosexual men were very good at perfection throughout my life. That is where I learned it. I had grave difficulty believing women were perfect. Men were telling me for years that they were.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Given that the core of the Bill is about human rights, we start at a level of perfection and fall as fragile human beings. We do not start half way up a ladder. I thank some of the experts in the Public Gallery and people such as Mary Farrell. Many of us can be educated and informed by those who live with what the Bill is trying to provide for and whose lives are caught between the devil...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 235:In page 88, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(d) to provide information on the creation of an enduring power of attorney or the making of an advance healthcare directive to enable a person who has capacity to express his or her wishes to be given effect when he or she lacks decision-making capacity;”. We were under the impression that...