Results 1,561-1,580 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is a different argument.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In response to Senator Mullen, probably the greatest example of moral posturing is Diageo's posturing regarding its faith in not drinking. I never heard a contradiction like it. I reiterate what Senator Heffernan said about the post offices and the general secretary and president of the Irish Postmasters Union. I spoke about this in the media last week and I call on the Minister for Social...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Farm Safety: Discussion (23 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not so much have questions. I want to say to Mr. Duffy, "You are the business". He is everything the organisation could wish for, namely, an articulate young person talking about farm safety. I am sure the mantle will fall to him some day. This is exactly what the Seanad Public Consultation Committee is about; it is about bringing in new life, new thought and new ideas and marrying...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I mentioned in the House previously the banking inquiry that is taking place downstairs. It is going great. People from all over the world are coming before it to talk about what happened the banks, why it happened and what we should have done differently, but the banks are still doing what they have always done. They have reverted to type. They are not only throwing people out of their...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Abysmal is the word.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was the greatest lesson in capitulation to the banks I have ever seen.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That Government kicked the can and capitulated to the banks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The party of which the Senator is a member bankrupted every one of us in the country. He should sit down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Such a joke.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, how come there is such inequality in regard to the time given to speakers?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Some of us only got the statutory one minute.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Other Senators did not get time to read a paper on entrance requirements for universities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister is not even listening to teachers, so she is hardly going to listen to the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Why would anybody want to?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is about stupidity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: One does not have to outline what is relevant and what is not relevant.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I shall address my comment to the Visitors' Gallery. The visitors have seen an example of why we should have more women in politics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What the people seated in the Visitors' Gallery have just heard is even more reason there should be more women in politics.