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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Commencing is one way of putting it, because a lot of people are not commencing; they are refusing to do it. I wonder how great the commencement is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Fair enough, but I would really appreciate the outline of those figures in relation to the number of people in education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly what the NCCA is paid is here in the documentation somewhere. It is a huge amount of money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know it does, but I would like to know what was spent on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan and the Minister of State with responsibility for skills, research and innovation, Deputy Damien English, on their appointments. How many people are in education on any one day in Ireland? How many of our citizens attend education from pre-school to adult education? How much money has been spent on the literacy and...
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is sport.
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to extend my congratulations to the Minister on her new appointment to arts, culture, the islands, heritage and whatever else. I appreciate her coming here. She has been very open, honest, clear and concise in what she has said. When I think of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, I personally would not like to appointed to the board because I do not truck with modern art. I am not...
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator. It is very important to speak about the arts. I am delighted we are doing so even though we are speaking about them controversially. We rarely get to speak about them here in the House and it is nice to speak about them regardless of what manner. I will follow with great interest Mr. McNulty's contribution to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Can I tell Senators when...
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know. It is a given that he is going to be appointed to the Seanad.
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is it about?
- Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate the Minister on his new appointment and I wish him luck in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. I welcome the ambassador for the State of Palestine and our other guests. All of us here in the Upper House of the Oireachtas are supposed to be parliamentarians. That is why we are here and why I had the privilege of being appointed here. We are supposed to uphold, create...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I accept that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I commend the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on the coming into law of the long-awaited legislation to protect whistleblowers. He described the new Act as comprehensive and setting a new standard in international best practice in this area. It sends a clear message that whistleblowers' concerns must be listened to and acted upon and that those who make...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We did so as individuals - some of us within this Technical Group would not necessarily vote together under normal circumstances. I opposed the provision in question as serving to restrict criticism of the health service, Health Service Executive and Department of Health. The requirement that general practitioners must give notice and seek approval before voicing any such criticism is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform or the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to discuss the plans by Quality and Qualifications Ireland to charge fees of €5,000 to community educational programmes in Dublin's inner city and elsewhere in the country simply to continue doing what they have been doing?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, to let Senator Mullen know, the Government has significant plans for this in relation to the social welfare and pensions Bill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is pornography and violence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, is it part of the Seanad's remit to promote music promoters?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Is it our place to promote musical promoters? Is that part of our raison d'être?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would be delighted if the Seanad congratulates me when I am next 40.