Results 161-180 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is completely pointless and useless to talk about yesterday. It is a point of order. We are dealing with the Social Welfare Bill

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We never used the word "care", we just said it was a bad decision.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Follow that.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Report Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Tá an tiománaí ag teacht.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There are 150,000 of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is rather extreme.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP, to the House. I am delighted we are represented so brilliantly in Europe by a female Fine Gael member. My question may be an innocent one to which Ms McGuinness may have a general answer. Ms McGuinness stated that in 1973, 263,000 people were working on farms or in the farming industry and that this reduced to 85,000 in 2012 and in the same breath used...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am surprised to be next to be called. I wish to alert the Seanad to something we may be unaware of going on under the radar, which is the selling of the national lottery licence and the selling of Coillte's harvesting rights. It is an outrage.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: When I became a Member, I thought that this was going to be an independent open-thinking objective Seanad and we were going to act as a great check on the great Executive. I do not see or hear any checks and I believe the Seanad must stand up because we are selling our State assets under the radar. We are being advised by people from New South Wales. I suggest that this island should float...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is wrong with us that we have to sell everything to New South Wales? I did not become a Senator in order to sit under the radar while our State assets are being whipped from under us and nothing seems to be happening about it. I do not want to receive any more e-mails about golf classics in The Gathering when we are selling our State assets under the radar. I wanted to alert Senators...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: My questions are to the leaders of the House, the Seanad, who are all around me.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, what I had to say to the House this morning was about the selling of State assets, not about gardaí.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: For 100 years.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Reform-----

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Our hands are not tied behind our backs. We are independent thinkers.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is not true. We did not sign up to the sale of State assets with the troika.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Then do not say things that are not true.

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move: "That Seanad Éireann:considers the National Lottery one of the most valuable resources owned and funded by the Irish people; understands that the National Lottery Licence which is held by An Post National Lottery Company is due to expire in 2013; notes the legislative intent of the National Lottery Bill 2012 and notes the decision of the Government to conduct a competitive process...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is the selling, not the renewal, that is the problem. I am surprised many Deputies and Senators have not seen this. I could try to get the money to build the children's hospital through a dedicated draw, perhaps on a Wednesday night, over five or six years. If we had done this for road construction we probably would not have paid a ¤10 billion overcharge for work not done. The Minister...