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Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, as a new Senator I find it incongruous and unconscionable that strangers would come in here on Monday between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to debate the abolition or the retention of the Seanad when the Labour Party and Fine Gael were not able to do it yesterday.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (21 Jun 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: With respect, every Senator should come in here on Monday and resume their seats.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish to share my time with the leader of the Independent group. I welcome the Minister to the House. I compliment him on his work and congratulate him on the evident progress on banking debt and sovereign debt. I want to ask some general questions and make some general observations. As I know very little about high finance and less about economics, I do so as a citizen who just happens to...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Have certain executives fooled Mr. Elderfield as they fooled his predecessors in the past? How are some of these individuals still in place? The State has given €3.7 billion to Bank of Ireland, for example, while a Canadian investor has put €1.1 billion into that bank. However, the latter's share of the business, at one third, is larger than the State's shareholding of 12%. On what...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Exactly.

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears, Banking and the Economy: Statements, Questions and Answers (3 Jul 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am pleased the Minister is here for purposes of clarification and communication and if Senator Byrne had spent less time giving out to us about him the Minister would have more time to answer the Senator's questions. I am in deep despair much of the time when I talk about the banks but there is one question I would like to ask the Minster, namely, if the banks are shops, which he rightly...

Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Taoiseach to the Upper House and am delighted to see him. I feel I should speak because he gave me the privilege of having a voice, as one of his appointees. However, in doing so, he might have a fight on his hands with regard to the closure of the Seanad because I do not think that is going to happen. I only have one minute but one minute with a powerful voice is worth a...

Seanad: Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate the Minister on producing what is an outstanding Bill. It is one of the best Bills to be placed before my eyes since I became a Senator 18 months ago. I say this because it goes to the heart of what we want or would like to be as a nation. It is extremely well written, explained, outlined and referenced. I disagree, therefore, with the idea that it is vague. It is perhaps...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to invite the Minister for Finance to the House for two reasons. We have all listened to roaring and bawling about the director of the Bank of Ireland, Mr. Richie Boucher. I know I am not allowed to say his name. He is the director and his name is in the public domain. With all of the other bailed out banking boys who have brought us to our knees, he appeared before the Joint...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did we ask for the Senator's advice?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As the Cathaoirleach was not here last week, he may be glad to hear for the first time-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was standing up for the Leader last night.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Senator very much. I have said that if we are to play and beat the banks at their own game, we must possibly take our business elsewhere. I suggest to the Seanad we start with the post office and credit unions. As a Senator, I cannot accept that the Government is unable to do anything about the pensions of the great, the good and the Gods. Why are we part of a Government that...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, this is outrageous. Two inquiries are being held.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does the Senator suggest the HSE and Galway University Hospital inquiries are not independent?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are two inquiries.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I second Senator Whelan's call to establish an inquiry in to the death of Fr. Molloy. Fine Gael and the Labour Party pledged to order a full review. I would like to find out what the Minister has to say on the matter. I want him to come here to let us know what has happened the review, has it begun or is it happening somewhere that we do not know about. If not, when does he intend to begin it?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister will be aware of the stark examples of extremely high salaries and pensions. Where any organisation, quarter, public service, banking or insurance company is guilty of salaries and pensions outside the common good, I believe that as a Senator I have to ask the Minister to alter that and to viably do so. If I were to give one simple example it would be the 227 people who work...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to speak, if I may.