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Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The first person I would like to thank this afternoon is Deputy Enda Kenny. The reason is that he appointed me to the Seanad in 2011 and then reappointed me in 2016. That is possibly the greatest affirmation one could ever have. Most of us need affirmation in our lives. Sometimes one gets it in the strangest places. “Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power”....

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: In perpetuity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to make two points. I have been following the farmers who have been standing outside the distribution areas of factories, conglomerates and supermarkets in the hope that they will be given a fair deal. They are still not getting a fair deal. Visas for workers with essential skills are being given to people who are going to work in these factories as animal boners, but such...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is nothing wrong with that. The blowing of wind has a certain verb attached to it. Senator Ruane made a very good speech on drugs. She knows exactly what she is talking about in respect of young people and drugs. The greatest abuse of the Seanad is the guillotine. It is far more abusive, in fact, than lengthy arguments or arguments which go on and go nowhere. It is an absolute...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: And Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not hear it. It was not loud enough.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is no need to call anybody an idiot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the witnesses for attending and for a most informative presentation. I tried knocking on the door of the expert advisory group as an independent but could not get in. As Mr. Falvey said, there is a significant element of creativity and imagination involved and I thought that I could have brought something to that but I was not in the right territory to be allowed onto the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does Dr. Manning think that has fuelled how the committee would like to see the next celebration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As a backbench Senator, I ask the advisory group to communicate a little more on the specifics of what it is doing. I sometimes feel that we do not know what is going on. I would welcome a little more openness on the communication front, although I am not saying that the group is clandestine. Perhaps the group has not started that work yet but I feel that I do not know what is happening-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What is happening today is so important. Communicatively, generally, we could have the prospective outline of what will happen. The idea of a virtual Public Record Office of Ireland is brilliant. That archive is wonderful. Things like that, which have a tentacle, will stay alive after the curtain has come down. The Department representatives may wish to respond to some of the points I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Then the Department hijacked it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Department should have been doing it for years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was a great teacher for the Department. Was it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It taught well what to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is where it should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think Mr. Falvey wanted to say something about opening up the purse strings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, it is wonderful. When we rely on the community - we are delighted with our educated community at all levels - and then we hand out €10,000 to community projects it seems a little contradictory. I am not suggesting that the Department would not double that figure for a particular project or idea. Sometimes we rely on the people so much and expect so much of them. They give so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Government Plans for Commemorative Events 2020-23: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am aware of that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yesterday, I spoke about the brilliant organisation, CareBright, and I mentioned that I had been in Bruff in County Limerick and had visited one of its centres for adults with dementia. I spoke of how extraordinary the centre was insofar as it had tried to create a family atmosphere where people could live independently but in a community, in what was a village within a village. They had...