Results 1,541-1,560 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to take up something Deputy Crowe said. Why is the Department doing it? I do not understand; perhaps there is something wrong. They are protected in section 28 of the 2002 redress Act. That section prohibits the disclosure and publication. Why are we doing it? It is after the fact here. Have the witnesses read the submission from the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity and their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The issue of protecting the right to a good name raises a very important point. Information in those records, such as allegations of abuse, may potentially read as statements of legal fact, rather than a statement of testimony and evidence from victims of abuse in those institutions. Some allegations of abuse were never contested but may be denied. To what extent can it be made clear in 75...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Who was it? Anyway, it is a little off the point. History plays a major part. Seventy-five could be the age of one's father, not necessarily one's grandfather. The institutions, such as the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity and the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, have legitimate points to make. We should be very much aware of them. We should also bear in mind the points of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Nobody is saying that should not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They may be held and not destroyed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In regard to the phrase "Lest we forget", I think that sometimes we have to forget because we are not able to live with the abuses of the past. We have to do that from an imaginative point of view at least as otherwise we would not get out of bed in the morning. The people who gave these most harrowing and appalling testimonies about their lives did so in the knowledge that they would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: To add one sentence to what Deputy McConalogue has said, some of the stories are about familial abuse, parental neglect, psychiatric and learning difficulties and drug and alcohol abuse, so it is not just about abuses by institutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They gave their names confidentially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are arguing at cross purposes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a good argument and I am convinced by it.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, will Senator Mullen repeat the last paragraph? I lost what he said. He said something about a man. What was the last sentence?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is counter-opinion.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It may be common sense, but it is not common reality-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----if we are speaking about common reality in 2015.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What exactly does the Senator mean by common sense?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is just one generalisation after the next. It is very hard to sit and listen to this.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Disingenuous Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: You better be up in the morning for Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I hereby second it.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Maybe in the 1960s.