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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is my first time to speak in the 24th Seanad and I do so with a great sense of anticipation, joy and profundity. I say profundity, because I understand, as I know all Senators do, the responsibility and privilege of this position. I am one of the Taoiseach's nominees, or as Senator Crown likes to call us an "Enda-dependent". Such a nomination is an affirmation of 33 years in third...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (15 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to assure Senator Crown, who has gone off to build the guillotine, that there is absolutely nothing-----

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (15 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Let me say then that there is absolutely nothing provisional about me. Let me assure everyone that I have the girth of great permanency. I support the motion tabled by my fellow Senators, Senators Zappone and Mac Conghail. Politicians are always asking themselves questions such as how we can do things differently and how things can be different. My question is very simple but, in essence,...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator was not a student of mine.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If he had been, he would have learned the art of brevity.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would not call it "disowning".

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, to the House. I am delighted she is here. I feel like an innocent saying that because I am a rookie Senator but I am aware she has an extraordinary political career and will be an extraordinary person in that role. I have a simple question that the Minister of State may be able to answer. I listened carefully to the views expressed by all...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: She is right.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, that was covered in the Minister of State's speech - that the doctors coming in would have a language proficiency.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am sorry. I was unaware of that.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No, I was trying to be informative.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I apologise but I did not understand the procedures of a point of order. I thought they were allowed. I was being informative and I would consider that to be extremely helpful to another Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: When I get the opportunity to speak about the greatest transfer of debt from the private sector to the ordinary taxpayer I find it hard to remain calm and calculated. I refer to the Irish banking scandal. It is beyond a scandal and is an affront to ethics, democracy and the morality about which Senator McAleese spoke in reference to another area. I find it even harder because we in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Leader ask the Minister to come into the House and explain why we cannot cut the executive salaries of the Bank of Ireland? I do not want to hear about the illegality of such a plan because there is no problem with illegality in cutting the salaries of the 190,000 workers who turn burgers. I want the Minister to explain why a struggling and incompetent executive of Bank of Ireland...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Unfinished Housing Developments: Statements (13 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Acting Chairman will be delighted to know I do not intend to use all of the eight minutes allotted to me because much of what I wanted to say has been raised by other speakers.

Seanad: Unfinished Housing Developments: Statements (13 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Minister of State is aware of the myriad of problems befalling us in respect of housing estates. I welcome him to the House. This is an interesting House. It is so beautiful, so qualitative, so historic and so magnificent in architecture, which makes it even more poignant considering the subject of our discussion. Some of these housing estates were built without heeding the fact that...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I wonder why Senator Crown asked that question.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We did not hear why he was asking the question.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would be interested in hearing Senator Crown's reason.