Results 1,601-1,620 of 7,583 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: As have I.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Yesterday I raised my concerns about the apparent lack of interest on the part of the Government and the Minister for Health in having a genuinely independent chair of the committee that is to review the operation of the abortion legislation. Senator Pauline O'Reilly, who I greatly esteem and respect, reminded me the people had spoken in the referendum. As I said, they did indeed but they...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: It was a fix.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: No party in the Taoiseach's office.
- Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Most of these regulations are uncontroversial. It would be stroke of the pen stuff. What is being asked for is that where something serious is involved, such as a curtailment of civil liberties, the House would make a decision that it wanted to have a vote.
- Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Whichever we decide.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The context of the matter I raise today is that Ireland pays more than €300 million per annum towards the cost of running the United Nations. Within that framework of the United Nations, special rapporteurs are regularly appointed and given a remit to examine and report on a specific human rights matter of broad concern worldwide or a...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his response and, of course, I agree with much of what he has said about the need for such special rapporteurs to receive adequate funding and the importance of their role. I question whether they can be as independent as he says when it is a matter of public record, for example, that the Open Society Foundation donated $137,000 to Amnesty International to...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: I was a rapporteur for a report for a parliamentary assembly. It is a very different matter.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: I do not have the same code of objectivity, independence, freedom etc. from all parties. I am a parliamentarian. It is a very different matter. We are political.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: An independent special rapporteur cannot be political in that way.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: I was not concurrently funded by any private body. My only salary was my parliamentarian's salary.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: We are all entitled to our views but we are not entitled to conflicts of interest.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: I have; there are several matters on the public record. I mentioned Mr. Philip Alston. It is a matter of public record-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: He got $600,000 from Soros and declared only $5,000 of it to the UN. Does the Government know about that, and is it worried about it?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State is a distinguished former Member of this House-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: Exactly.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)
Rónán Mullen: And not in the pay of private organisations.