Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the Taoiseach's nominees, myself and Senators van Turnhout, Zappone, Mac Conghail and Mary Ann O'Brien, I welcome Senator Hildegarde Naughton. Hildegarde is a great name. It is romantic like mine, Marie-Louise. I have taken an immediate liking to the Senator, who is from the west. Despite the sense of impending doom and discussion of abolition and the building of senatorial guillotines, I hope the next two and a half years will be everything the Senator wants them to be for herself and her party.