Results 1,301-1,320 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I apologise to the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a very reasonable rebuttal. We spend €1,000 every week on one person in a nursing home.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If families had that €1,000, under governance, would they not be prepared to provide care? Perhaps that is too creative. One could ask if there is a right place for legislative measures. I accept the point that the Bill concerns decision making and that if older people want to stay in their homes they cannot be forced out, if they have the capacity and wherewithal. However, where...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We continue all the time to create fragile environments and we put older people into them which makes them even more fragile. It is done in the name of health and safety but in fact it is the closing down of their freedom. Some of them are so healthy and safe they are treated like babies and they are not allowed to think for themselves. In effect, their liberty is taken away from them, for...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Manners will now be put on me by the Acting Chairman.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just-----
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is called passive suicide.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What page is it on?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What page is that on?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He is not raising the amendment. He is back-referring it.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The amendment was not discussed at any level, and it was not even part of an adjacent discussion.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to go back to a Bill that was discussed four weeks ago. Could I do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is not necessarily my area but I want to ask a generalised non-political, perhaps apolitical, question. In certain cases of middle and profound intellectual disability, have we created a kind of rod for our own back by integration? I say that with all the quality in the world. I came from a background of education and as an educationalist - I came to the Seanad as one - but I wonder...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, I fully understand what Deputy O'Brien is saying but I am unsure whether those anecdotes are necessarily the answer in certain instances. It is a fair enough question. With all the resources in the world-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my argument.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a good answer, but I would never separate the quality of education from any child. I did not mean that. I was simply asking the question for those who might not be suitable. Perhaps it is a parental matter. I have seen where parents insist on sending the child to mainstream secondary school, which does not serve many people's needs whether they have intellectual disability. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is he doing now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No computer ever will.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. That is because they are in teacher training colleges.