Results 101-120 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lusitania Museum and Related Matters: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Does it?

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 9, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3)any regulation made by the Minister under section 24shall not have effect unless a resolution approving such regulation has been passed by each House of the Oireachtas within 21 days on which those Houses have sat after the regulation is laid before it.”. I will...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: He would not add fuel to that fire.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 3:In page 24, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following:“(11) When imposing sentence upon a person, a sentencing judge may impose a specified period during which that person shall not be eligible for parole, to include any sentence that the court may determine over and above the minimum period as set down in subsection (1)(a)above.”. I thank the...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is right.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: No.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is all I know.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I do not want to give the impression that I think we should be closing down the Irish Penal Reform Trust; I am not at all, it is a wonderful organisation. I was just very angry with it for some of the things that it has suggested about victim impact statements and the controlling of such statements, particularly when I am trying to stand up for victims of great grievous, heinous crimes....

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, and in that case they would not all have this mandatory life sentence. The whole area of consecutive and concurrent sentencing also needs to be looked at. It is enormous. If two people are burned or killed, which life sentence is the prisoner doing? There are many families of such victims in AdVIC. I will not stop and I will continue to stand up for victims in whatever way I can but...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That was Senator McDowell.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State for his excellent explanation. I learned a long time ago that if one wants something to change or to get it done, one has to keep at it. Members know this as politicians. I have learned this in the House and have tried in every way possible for the past three years to highlight the victims within the law and what happens to them. I know that many changes have...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----for people who have influenced me greatly. I am not just influenced by AdVIC but by the society in which we are becoming very violent. We are entertained by violence and communicate through violence wrongly. We are trying in the best way that we can, starting with young people in education, and in 1,000 different ways, to look at who we are. We are not the monkey shaved; we are...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I did not mean at all that people from disadvantaged areas are criminals. It is a fact that many of our prisoners would not have had the thousands of different advantages that others have.If one looks at lots of the research in the area that is what I was speaking about and the meaningless of that. I will not call for a vote on this.

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State. I thought that I would be delighted to have the Parole Bill here but I am not delighted at all. I do not agree with Part 3 of the Bill. It addresses eligibility for parole, which has been radically altered. Section 24 is gone or is certainly unrecognisable. Certain sections of this Bill as I read it a week ago have been erased and a very serious aspect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank Ms Duggan and her colleagues for coming in. I do not know whether I am happy or depressed to have heard what Ms Duggan just said. I will ask a number of questions and I invite any of the witnesses to answer them. They might give partial answers here but they might give more specific answers because I know they have to run through something for seven or eight minutes, which does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What does BirdWatch Ireland think of the idea of a Department of natural environment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Environment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to ask Deputy Eamon Ryan, who is here today, what he thought of my idea of a Department of the natural environment. I know he leads the Green agenda. "Agenda" is the wrong word.