Results 1,521-1,540 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We have a Minister who is rewarding failure.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have done all the evolving that I intend to do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate all those who were involved in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Irish people are remarkable because they will always follow the truth if the truth is authentic. In this instance, they followed the truth. Our common humanity can never be undermined. The referendum was about our common humanity, and that influenced how the Irish people voted. I congratulate them on voting the way they did. I wish to inform Senators Norris, Zappone and others that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to alert Senators to the fact that UPC is ending its relationship with An Post. The company will no longer allow any citizen in Ireland to pay his or her UPC bill at a local post office. The relationship in this regard is all over and UPC is walking away. One must now have a credit card or a debit card and a bank account to pay one's UPC bill. Many elderly people do not have any of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want the relevant Minister to come before the House to explain the position regarding this matter. New social welfare forms have arrived in post offices, but the Government is recommending that people should use the services of banks. That is disgraceful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: UPC is going to have to answer for this. How is it being allowed to do what I have outlined to the people? Many older people do not have bank accounts, credit cards or debit cards. This is because they do not use the services of the banks. In fact, An Post is their bank, and the reason for this is that it never let them down. I would like the Leader to provide an explanation of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement: Department of Social Protection (13 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Senator Craughwell for using the word "desert". I must have been an abandoned child because both of my parents worked every hour that God sent morning, noon and evening. It is an extraordinary use of the word to suggest that a child would be deserted if his or her parent went to work in the evening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement: Department of Social Protection (13 May 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will ask two general questions. I bow to the ability of Senator Moloney in dealing with this on the ground. Mr. Egan said that the family income supplement payment "effectively preserves the incentive to take up or remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if they were claiming other social welfare payments". Could he talk to me...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Cassells for a most informative presentation. Like Deputy Charlie McConalogue, I would like to know what reports were available before the expert group began its work. There has been significant repetition, rightly so, in the first phase of its work in dealing with the role, value and scale of higher education. We already know this and could talk about it until the cows come...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The delegates might not answer the Senator's questions if he is not present. I would not do so if I were them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: And the committee's indulgence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is right. It is the backfoot of administration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: And the evidence on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The area of apprenticeship is being developed. I think apprenticeships are third level. The idea that to be academic one lives in one's head and that is the only way one can judge academia is ridiculous. The Chairman mentioned ideologies and boundaries, but my general question is whether the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education is to be allowed to stray into the area of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Deserving to be considered as important
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Another apartheid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Union of Students in Ireland (22 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the USI representatives very much. I admire them greatly because many people come in here with incantations of awfulness, but do not come up with solutions. Well done to the USI for coming up with solutions that are reasonable, achievable and well laid out. They are good examples of what the witnesses are talking about. I am sure they have many such examples and picked out very...