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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Byrne should not presume, perceptively or otherwise, that I have not read the document.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Byrne presumed that none of us had read it. His speech was based on that presumption.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements, Questions and Answers (27 Oct 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister. Will he clarify his plans to avert the impending staffing crisis in mental health services caused by the loss of 1,000 posts in 2009 and 2010 and the inability, owing to the public sector moratorium, to replace any of up to a further 1,200 staff who are retiring?

Seanad: Health Services: Statements, Questions and Answers (27 Oct 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister is very perceptive.

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I propose to share time with Senator Fiach Mac Conghail.

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am delighted to welcome the Minister to the House. His Ministry is the most important, because without education we will make no progress. Last week I had a lengthy meeting with the president of DCU's students union in the course of which we discussed education, research, the way forward, teaching, fees and so on. Although we are talking about reform of the second level junior cycle...

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would point out to Senator Daly that it ill-behoves him to be talking to me about democracy. I can tell you, with respect and affection, that I will not listen to it. Our democratic structures were levelled in 2008 when your leader was in a room signing our lives away.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do not lecture me about democracy.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Daly, I will not be lectured on democracy by you. Pick another subject.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would also like to point out to Senator Reilly that she should temper her language. When she is talking about young people in primary, secondary or third level education, she should not use words like "targeted" and "butchered".

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Senator Thomas Byrne. I think he is extraordinary. The members of the Fianna Fáil Party have become psychotherapists, turning around everything the Government got wrong. They did not turn anything. Backbenchers and outsiders turned things.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On the question of the Seanad, it is entirely pointless for Members to be talking in the conditional tense, what could or should have been. We should be talking in the present and future tenses. When I was appointed to the Seanad I said initially that we could be an epilogue or a prologue. It is not up to anybody else to tell us whether we are going to be an epilogue or a prologue. It is...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly, centralise the means test.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Jan 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am very pleased to second the motion proposed by my colleague, Senator O'Brien. The motion recognises the need to protect and maintain disability services. We need to do this in order to enhance the participation and inclusion of people with disabilities in Ireland. I will speak in particular on two elements of the motion, the first being the Lunacy Regulation Act 1871. It is astounding...