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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Both of us are Senators.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to second that. The work being done by the Government to try to get the long-term unemployed back into the workforce is a mammoth task in every way. One of the most important thrusts of any Government is to provide for a work-life balance for its people. Like Senator Moloney, I am very disappointed. Having said that, I am delighted that the tough questions - they were not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just wanted to second what Senator Moloney said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I should have mentioned that the Chairman of the committee is female too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Perhaps we could take a leaf out of the book of the Leader of the Seanad, who does not answer questions at the conclusion of the Order of Business unless the Senator who asked the question is present to hear the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They might furnish me with the details I did not get about the demands on the different schemes. I am thinking of the Gateway programme in particular.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They are less imaginative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. We are two years in the making here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I accept that. I was talking about effectiveness, about the improvement or lack of improvement, and about what is working and what is not working with programmes like JobsPlus, Tús, Gateway, JobBridge and MOMENTUM and with apprenticeship schemes. I have no sense of which one is working, which one has been learned from, which one needs to be learned from, which one could be added to and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have a few questions. I would like to pick up on what Deputy Joan Collins said about Intreo offices. Could I have an outline of where these Intreo offices are geographically located throughout the country? Where will the new offices that were mentioned by Deputy Ó Snodaigh be located? How many of them have been upgraded? How many of them need to be upgraded? I am looking for...
- Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State. There is one element of the budget, which I pointed out to Senator Barrett earlier, which I find deeply disturbing. I am referring to the universal social charge, which we all have on all of our earnings. If one earns between €12,000 and €17,500 one pays 3.5% in universal social charge. If one earns between €17,500 and €70,000...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: And bad teaching.
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the Minister really believes in the power of the artistic disciplines in all our lives, she can make the greatest case for the arts to be equal when it comes to finance. I cannot end without making a reference to Mr. McNulty and the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Any political interference that undermines the independence of the boards of our cultural institutions, or any board,...
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Their plays always concerned a very good person, who was new to a position, an eager, enthusiastic, talented, aware and energetic person, who was brought down by a question of morality. In the 16th century this was usually in the guise of a cardinal or a pope, but of course nothing has changed. This great morality hid behind arrases, large stage curtains, with a big sword and picked off the...
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Acting Chairman now stop the applause of the public audience?
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister to the House for this debate. I wish to speak about why the arts matter to me. I had the privilege to be trained in the arts and education, as well as the privilege of being educated in the arts and performance and the arts in education. I know, through my training and education that the arts are our national legacy, national language and national identity. I have...
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How are they facts? If Senator O'Brien does not know them and he does not know the answer to them, then how are they facts?
- Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator O'Brien can point away.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, I am withdrawing it until after the budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----