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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Is Mr. Osborne telling me that if there is a conviction for an animal welfare issue, sooner or later the IHRB will initiate a process of its own?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That would be perfectly reasonable if it were the only reason the IHRB would not take institutional action. Is Mr. Osborne confident there has not been a case, a concluded issue in the courts, relative to animal welfare that did not result in the IHRB also taking disciplinary action?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: We can wait for the answer to that because it is an important question. I have received correspondence from people who are concerned about animals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Is it obligatory on the IHRB to conduct such a process, sooner or later, when it is established that a conviction stands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It is more than that; it is protecting animal welfare. Surely there is a higher duty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Ultimately, Horse Racing Ireland is the paymaster. It is fine to say it will work closely with the IHRB, it is great to have co-operation with it and HRI approves of all the good things it is now doing, but there has to be more than that if the IHRB is still falling short.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I know of no such body that enjoys such independence while being composed of a completely closed shop of directors. The quid pro quo from independence is that there are appointees of board directors from different places, especially by the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The IHRB is not doing its job right in the court of public opinion or any other reasonable assessment. Let us say that animal welfare issues are not being relentlessly pursued by the board in certain cases. I know we are talking hypothetically but I will need to go back and check the information I was given about past cases-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Eade could go another seven years like Uachtaráin na hÉireann.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am sure that the chief executive officer is aware that there is disquiet in the sector or in an element of the sector about this matter. I mean what I have said to her today is not news.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am asking whether it is mandatory for it to do so. I put it to Mr. Osborne that it would not be enough to say the IHRB is independent and HRI cannot tell it too much about how it does its job. A much more serious public interest issue arises if there is any possibility that the IHRB is failing to relentlessly pursue an animal welfare issue once it is concluded in the courts and if the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It is telling no secrets to say that many Catholics are concerned not to say terrified by the implications of the 2018 secret agreement between China and the Vatican about the recognition of bishops and the status of the Catholic Church in China. The issue is whether the agreement is leading to more repression of Catholics and more restrictions on their priests and the practice of their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I second what Senator Kyne just said. Every word of that is important, but we also need to broaden this to address the terror many of us feel at what may be facing other parts of the world as well as a result of the threat to the grain supply coming out of Ukraine. We think of the populations of countries in the Middle East, such as Egypt, south-east Asia and north Africa. The populations...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: He will be remembered from town to town.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by US Congressman Richard Neal (24 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte is fiche roimh Richard Neal. Is ócáid iontach é i gcónaí nuair a thagann teachtaí ó na Stáit Aontaithe chuig an tír seo. Tá áthas orm go bhfuil siad anseo inniu agus cuirim fáilte rompu uilig. Gabhaim buíochas leo as an méid atá á dhéanamh acu ar son na tíre seo. I am very happy to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That includes nuclear. We will put the Senator to the test on that very point today.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: When one looks at debates in Britain on Brexit and the protocol, and the behaviour of the British Government around those things, or the behaviour of leading politicians during lockdown and the ongoing craziness in the United States around many issues, we in Ireland might be tempted to think that somehow we have a more objective way of doing politics and looking at issues of public...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I second the motion and commend Senator Keogan for bringing it forward. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The Minister is welcome. We all want the same thing in the sense that we want to protect our environment and reduce our carbon emissions, and we want to do right by the world and by future generations and the less fortunate and more vulnerable people of our world. However, it is vital...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: A good dictatorship is what we need I suppose.