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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It will be a reversal of fortunes; I have been 37 for so long, but there you go. I call on the Leader to invite the new Minister for Education and Skills to the House to answer the Larkin Unemployed Centre, which is involved in community education in north inner-city Dublin. When one hears the word "community" in Ireland one thinks of devastation, as community projects, leaders,...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to welcome somebody very special to the House for two reasons. A young man named James Kirwan is seated in the Visitors Gallery, he is from Shankill and he is a liver and kidney double transplant patient. Since 2006 he has never looked back after his transplant operation. He is on the youth advisory council of the new children's hospital which is only right. His attendance...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Might I mention to the great Whip that the smallest rhododendron in the world is in the Botanic Gardens. Also, the Botanic Gardens is interested in conservation and preservation and 400 endangered species are being kept alive in its herbarium. I also welcome the conservation and preservation work that is taking place in Killarney. I welcome the platform that has been brilliantly created by...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The National Botanic Gardens are.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Some €3,000 per week.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----on our streets. I am asking a question. Punishments must fit the crime. They must be a deterrent to crime - they must be at a level to be a deterrent. There is one murder a week in this country. We have had 62 violent murders in the past year. I request that the Minister for Justice and Equality come into the House. A conversation must begin, through politics, about what we can do...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the Senator is confident, why do we need a big speech?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Like my colleague, Senator Mac Conghail, I lament the passing of the poet and novelist Dermot Healy. When such people pass away, a pulse of the nation is gone somewhere into the ether. We do not cherish our poets, playwrights and artists half enough. Their contribution to the country can be greater than and above politics. I lament it even more when I see what is happening to the arts in...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Can the Minister take supplementary questions?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Of course you can.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will raise it on Committee Stage but I was just-----

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister to the House. The first visit I made after coming to Leinster House as a Senator was to the Department of Social Protection, which confirmed my view that this is a very benevolent country. That benevolence is clear in our treatment of people who are poor and needy, people who lack education and have not had the same opportunities as others, and people who are not able...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As I see the situation, the problem is that one cannot maintain two campuses; one cannot keep paying for roofs. It is my opinion, as I live beside the mosque in Clonskeagh, that they picked the wrong campus for the solution, and that the negotiations for the right campus were not made in the timeline as suggested by my colleague. I think the two or three people who made the decision looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do we have to ask the Archbishop's permission to talk to the De La Salle Brothers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That was my question. I was wondering if we could visit the schools. Will the Chairman agree to that? Is there a possibility of our speaking to De La Salle Order to find out the position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin (25 Jun 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: An architect went to examine the Dominican campus. Did he cost what it would take to renovate it or realign it to take on the extra students that would come to it?