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- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I ask the Leader to reiterate once again to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, the call to come to the House and tell us when he intends to establish the people's forum for Irish Water that was promised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I believe we should pay for water and I believe it should be metered, but some of us voted based on the idea of a plebiscite and the setting up of a people's forum, which is provided for in the legislation. I would like to see that established.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is the second time I have asked this question and I would like an answer. I would like the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, to come here and tell the House when he intends to do that. The second question is for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin. I was one of the lone speakers who opposed the sale of the national lottery. When is the lottery regulator...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not ask Fianna Fáil for an answer. I asked the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: All we got from Fianna Fáil was trouble.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am not asking for an answer from the Senator; I am asking the Leader.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That was a good, explanatory and readable presentation. I enjoyed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, but it was very good. Mr. Daly obviously knows his area well, what he has done and what he needs, but I am not sure about his reasons. He stated that there were three "statics" - I do not understand that word - of particular note in the report. First, 40% of students are not using a computer in class even once a week. Second, 45% of students are in schools with weak support for ICT...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I understand. Third, 40% of students are being taught by teachers with low confidence levels in using ICT. I will put a spanner in the works. Where does what Mr. Daly has stated stand as regards our greatest weaknesses in school, namely, numeracy and literacy? This paper gives me the impression that ICT is some kind of saviour. I live in the real world, where the main requirements in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We must be careful, when talking about computers and IT not being available in schools, about saying that the school or the children are therefore weak. There are many thousands of ways whereby young people can be assessed. For me, numeracy and literacy are fundamental to that. Of course, the witnesses are correct, as is everything they are doing. I agree with Senator Craughwell that an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can we use that here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is it being introduced here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: May I ask a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: For how long has Camara Ireland been in existence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Have the witnesses written anything? They mentioned, apropos of the point made by Deputy Jim Daly, what they have learned in that ten years, how their approach and how they do things have changed. Have they written anything about this or about the organisation's plans for the future or is it just ethereal? That is my question and if so, can members read some of it? Obviously, the approach...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Have papers been written about this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Where can one access them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was not saying that. I was arguing about the level of the silver bullet, as Mr. Fitzsimons's colleagues suggested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: One needs literacy and numeracy to be able to read and argue it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not a panacea. It is not the case that without it we are weak, which was an inference in the presentation. We are weak if we do not have the ability to add, read and write. There is a balance.