Results 381-400 of 7,640 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Senator O'Donovan appears to be worried about eggs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: He may wish to break free from the yoke of Europe completely, if Members will pardon the pun. I hope we will not do so because we need Europe and need to be good Europeans. I also hope, however, we now will have the courage to have a debate in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I am finishing now. There should be a debate in this House about exactly what measures we must agree with our European partners in order that Ireland can be fully integrated in Europe but also with the independence it needs to guarantee equality of life for its citizens and the right to determine certain matters which it regards to be issues for itself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I do not have that option. Would Fianna Fáil oblige me by bringing it forward?
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, I also asked for a debate on Europe. Can that provide for?
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2008)
Rónán Mullen: What about the debate on Europe I requested?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I congratulate my colleague, Senator à Murchú for raising a pertinent issue and speaking about it with his usual eloquence. I rise to ask for a further debate on human trafficking in light of the disturbing new statistics available from Ruhama, which, as everybody here knows, does excellent work accompanying people involved in prostitution. Ruhama reports a two thirds increase in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I wish to raise the issue of Zimbabwe. I welcome what Senator O'Toole has said on the matter. I was in Ãras an Uachtaráin recently. On my way out I saw a tree that had been planted, the inscription on which stated gurbh é Robert Mugabe an duine a chur an crann sin. That was in the good days when this man may have represented a beacon of hope.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Since then this man and his bestial regime have not been planting trees but have been pursuing a scorched earth policy in human terms.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Why does the international community look on impotently while he does it? When will we act?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: It is material to the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I wish to be associated with the expressions of relief at the release from captivity of Ingrid Betancourt. My question to the Leader relates to another person in captivity in Ireland and the need for a debate on the functioning of our laws against trafficking which were recently passed in this House and the Dáil. A young Nigerian woman was arrested and brought before the court for failing...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: In fairness, no one from Fine Gael demonised them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: It is relevant becauseââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: My question is for the Leader. I ask him to use his good offices. The media rightly portrayed how divisive and negative campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s were on various sensitive social issues. If we are going to go back to the politics of demonisation, which involve calling people "dinosaurs", as happened in this House yesterdayââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I do not and will never use abusive language but we need to try and set a lead so that we recognise the sincere convictions of people of all shades of opinion and treat them with the respect that is due to them, not just as public representatives but as human beings.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Dinosaurs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: The Cathaoirleach needs an egg timer. It is the only mechanism that will solve the problem.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)
Rónán Mullen: In light of the Cabinet's meeting today to approve cuts in Government spending to save approximately â¬400 million, it would be timely that we would have an urgent debate on how in a time of crisis and cutbacks we would order our priorities. On an international level, it is estimated by most informed commentators that the money promised at the Gleneagles summit by the G8 in 2003 â â¬50...