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Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to add my voice to those of the Minister and my colleagues because this requires clarification. The distinction requiring to be made concerns the situation in which several people hear or read defamatory comments, which is the basis of most defamation cases, and appears to be what the phrase "multiple publication" seeks to convey. There is also, however, a legitimate concern about...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Some natural bodies do not have feelings.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I think the sinking feeling referred to something else of which he was having a premonition.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I will second Senator Norris's amendment to the Order of Business because like him, I agree that we should be discussing the Defamation Bill on Second Stage and not on Committee Stage. I greatly regret, despite all the lip service that is paid to the quality of the debate in the Seanad Chamber, that in many ways, Members are being frustrated from considering issues in the way they might. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: ——I do not call the Commissioner a moron but the argument is certainly moronic. To suggest to people that they will be the laughing stock of Europe if they reject the treaty is no substitute for good argument. Rather than hearing from dignitary after dignitary such as Commissioner McCreevy and the Dutch Minister for European Affairs, Frans Timmermans, who was in town to tell us it would...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: How would our other European partners react?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Let us hear the advantages for saying "Yes" as well. Please can we have an end to this and can the debate start here in the Seanad, the place with the reputation for stimulating debate?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Please can we have an end to anti-intellectual argument——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: ——such as that we will be the laughing stock of Europe if we do not vote "Yes" or "No" or whatever it is. I am sorry for going on, a Chathaoirligh. I appreciate your indulgence.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I am opposing it.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Very often matters raised on the Order of Business involve a degree of criticism and negativity and, in that context, I was very pleased to hear the contributions of Senator Quinn and others on the heroic example of active citizenship shown during the night. I am pleased to raise another good news story. Reports in yesterday's newspapers outlined the great progress being made in stem cell...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Lord Norris of North Great George's Street.

Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Can we all come?

Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Famous last words.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Given that she is the patron saint of music the Senator may wish to sing her contribution.

Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Ba bhreá liom i dtosach báire fáilte a chuir roimh an Aire. Ba léir ó bheith ag éisteacht léi go bhfuil barr-feabhas bainte amach aici. Tá máistreacht aici ar gach rud a bhaineann le cúrsaí oideachais sa tír. Ní ionann é sin agus a rá go bhfuil an ceart aici an t-am ar fad, nó ag an Rialtas. Glacaim leis go ndúirt sí an-chuid atá thar a bheith ciallmhar. Ba bhreá liom...

Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: He may not have said "gun" but that is the word I prefer to use in this House. There has been more than a whiff of that strategy in the air as certain politicians tried to up the ante in the debate about school patronage and the governance of primary schools. I am concerned by the language from experienced elected representatives and from other quarters. The shortage of school places in...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: The Health Service Executive is seeking a 10% rise in the excise duty on alcohol. We know now Irish adults are the third-highest consumers of alcohol in the European Union and people such as Archbishop Seán Brady are calling for a break in the link between alcohol advertising and sporting events. Three years on from the report of the strategic task force on alcohol in 2004, which was...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I hope it will be a discussion that does not confine itself to platitudes about how terrible alcohol abuse is. It is time for us to recognise mixed messages, such as talking down alcohol abuse but simultaneously taking no serious and adventurous measures against it. Such measures could include forcing people who make much money from the sale of alcohol to fund some of the public health...

Seanad: Pension Provision: Motion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Rónán Mullen: That is an ageist comment