Results 161-180 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Surely that is the place to start. The county councils are concerned with their locale. Members of the Oireachtas deal with many issues, including legislation. Are county councils ignoring beekeepers or are they just being lazy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What does Mr. O'Brien think I should do as a legislator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Did this come up at the doorsteps during the local elections? The Green Party was everywhere, so at least there was a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: That is my first question. What will happen if we have no bees or if they continue to decrease?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: When Mr. O'Brien says "pollinator", what exactly does he mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What do they do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Sometimes people use this language but they do not understand the breadth of what the bee does-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: -----allowing us to come along and eat it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The witnesses referred to a figure of 75%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Give me another example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are destroying our environment. I refer to plastic in the sea and the effluent recently affecting south Dublin where people cannot swim because all the poo is going into the sea, etc. Would I be crazy to say that we need a single Department for the natural environment because of the destruction that would encompass what the witnesses are talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: A driver certainly will not see them on the windscreen, which is where they are usually seen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: People live in a kind of a contradictory environment. They drive across Ireland and think Ireland is magnificent, green, emerald and all of that. They do not lock into the reality of what Mr. O'Brien is saying. They do not really think these pollinators are essential to what and how we eat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Should there be a statutory requirement on all county councils, not only Louth County Council, to respond to what Mr. O'Brien has described?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: If the committee can help our guests to ignite people's interest in order to ensure that what they are seeking to do will happen, that would be good. If, as Mr. Norton suggested, Louth County Council is doing this so well, why can other local authorities not do it too? It is all very well to say that a plan is being adopted; there must also be action. I would be very much in favour of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I will be here.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Over the last weeks we heard the Government asking older people to downsize from their homes and perhaps move to smaller homes in villages, retirement spaces or to spaces in voluntary private and public nursing homes. I raised this issue previously and asked about the possibility of bringing the Minister for Health to this House. I want to discuss healthcare assistants because we need them....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How we are ageing in Ireland is a serious problem. Our frail and feeble elders must be able to age with dignity, either in their own homes or in nursing homes but with care. I ask that the Minister be brought to the House to discuss this. I am sick of Ministers communicating on Twitter and various other social media when I rarely hear them speak here or see them in the corridors or...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I certainly do not see them in my arts committee.