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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Higher and Further Education Grants: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and thank him for the history lesson. It was a good reminder of what we all know, to our cost in our hearts and minds, happened to the Magdalen women. I wish to emphasise the word "justice" throughout my speech. I do this because "I emphasise the word "justice"" was the major sentence in an address by Deputy Alan Shatter, who was Minister for Justice, Equality and...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister may define the Act as he wants. I define it in my way.

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can we reply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the delegates and thank them for their presentations. They have given us an extraordinary amount of information. I am sure I have seen Dr. Larkin wandering about Leinster House. Does he work here in some capacity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Barrett is very fortunate to have Dr. Larkin. My first question is for Mr. Costello. Much of what he had to say seemed rather depressing, whereas the contribution from Mr. Purser made me feel elated. That was somewhat confusing in terms of what we should be taking away from this meeting. Mr. Costello referred to the deterioration in the student-staff ratio. Mr. Tom Boland of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was thinking of it at undergraduate level and in the context of the deterioration in the ratios that Mr. Costello mentioned. I was not thinking of it in terms of entrepreneurial skills, learning from it, innovation and having to research matters to move them on. I was thinking of it at a completely different level but I take Mr. Costello's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is our guests' view on the awful debacle which took place recently in the context of students from Brazil, India and elsewhere who came here to pursue English language courses? I accept that this has nothing to do with the universities and relates to private institutions. The Department of Education and Skills took its eye off the ball on this matter and the Department of Justice and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They were also badly affected because we expect the Department of Justice and Equality, when it stamps something, to engage in proper scrutiny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I take on board what the Deputy is saying and I am aware that the level of collaboration that exists with some of these countries in the areas of medical science and biotechnology are phenomenal. Those young people who came here to study had an expectation that they were doing so at a level that had been approved by someone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will Mr. Purser reply to the questions I asked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was elated by the information provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What about the 20,000 students? Where do they come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The trajectory is very linear there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Perhaps the great Mary O'Rourke put the universities in the wrong place in Limerick - the University of Limerick is a brilliant university - and in Dublin City University. I am not sure that a university is coming to Athlone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is the case all over the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are not incarcerated here either for white-collar crime.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We know it in respect of mortality, deprivation and food. There are many studies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It would be an important study now since a university education does not necessarily lead to a job and our unemployment rate is so high. Does it work outside of the job factor? In what way does it work and keep people alive with possibility, a quality of life and a sense of what the philosophers call "happiness", which is very much a part of what education should have been about, that sense...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future of Higher Education: Discussion (11 Feb 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a major part of-----