Results 81-100 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move: "That Seanad Ãireann: notes the decision of the Government to conduct a competitive process for award of a licence to operate the National Lottery over a 20 year period; considers the National Lottery one of the most valued resources owned and funded by the Irish people; and therefore calls on the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to make proposals to Government to...
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The electricity grids may be, aspects of Coillte may be, gas basins may be, electric cables may be but the lottery is not. Everything about the national lottery is fuelled, furnished, finance, stocked, sourced, owned and possessed by the Irish people. It is ours. In every way it can be defined and in every which way we can argue it, it is ours. It belongs to us, lock, stock and barrel....
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It does not make any sense to put the lottery up for sale. It is our greatest and most valuable worthwhile resource, and why sell it? I put it to Senators that we would be better selling the Book of Kells. If we were to sell the Book of Kells to some museum in Australia, Canada or London for â¬500 million, we could come home and put that money in our pocket. We might have fewer Americans...
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I do not believe it is the Senator's place to judge my contribution or make an adjudication to the effect that there was nothing in it.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is an extremely weak way to begin an argument by stating that there is nothing in someone's contribution.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I never said that.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Correct.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is very nice to see the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry, in the House. I have not had the opportunity to speak to him as a young rookie Senator. Having spent one year in the House I have very broad country shoulders. I have never before received a swipe such as the one I received from Senator Jim D'Arcy and it hurt because he had taken my words out of context, recontextualised them...
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I mentioned the transfer con idea which was really an idea about privatisation, where the banks privatised losses were put on the backs of the public. I want to thank the Minister of State for being here and to thank Deputy Howlin for his presence earlier. I understand that the licence is for tender but by tender it means that it is for sale for 20 years because if somebody is going to give...
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Correct. Over and above the national lottery's own profit at â¬50 million a year. I want the profit to stay with us.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (23 May 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I want it to stay with the Irish citizen, the Irish State and the Irish Government. I also consider it a different kind of asset. I do not consider it a grid or a bog, which I nearly broke my shoulder on last week, or like electricity or pipelines. I consider it to be personal, private, people and voluntary, and to be euro being taken out of their suits, trousers and purses. My argument...
- Seanad: Seanad Report on the Rights of Older People: Statements (13 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I also welcome the Minister of State in whom I have great faith. The Taoiseach's nominees imagined the notion of the Seanad Public Consultation Committee. We might not have been the first to imagine it because "there is nothing new under the sun", as John Donne said, but it was brought about by the Leader and the House itself. The first consultation was on the rights of older people, and...
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the-----
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I support the motion that the future of the Seanad should be part of the constitutional convention. Why would that be so wrong? What is it about that proposal that Fine Gael and Labour do not want to do it? Have Fine Gael and Labour no faith in the Seanad? Have they no faith in its past, its present and its future? What does the Government really want? If it wants the abolition of the...
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----is a sad reflection not on what they really feel but on what they are prepared to accept.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to support Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order-----