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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I wish to return to the CervicalCheck scandal and then I have two questions on abortion prompted by the Minister's comments. To go back to the issue of mandatory disclosure first, I was particularly impressed by an article by Pat Leahy in The Irish Timeslast week, which the Minister may have seen, in which Mr. Leahy gives some deserved criticism of us all as a political class about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I do not know. The jury is out on this one. We have not heard from the Minister yet. It is not just broadcasters who decide, by the way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: The Government solicits coverage for issues, sometimes at taxpayers' expense, as we all know from the recent debate. It is not just broadcasters who decide.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: No. The spending of money would be illegal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: There could well be a Government campaign, and there certainly is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister is wrong on facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: It is respectful challenge. That is all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I will tell the Minister what I said. I have always disapproved of such posters but I am asking him if there is a disconnect between disapproving of the posters and being in favour of the killing of children in that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Is that not what happens?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: With respect, Chairman, I would have thought it is part of the Minister's brief to give an account of his stewardship, including the Government's participation in campaigns to change the law. However, I am happy to leave it at that. I would like an answer to the question about the precise debates that will happen, and also to my question about mandatory disclosure. I am conscious that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. Mary Holohan has a position too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: We are in agreement about those pictures, but I would have to say that miscarried babies suggests an element of denial.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Understood.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Is it not a pity that it takes that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I thought I misheard the last time. Last week at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, I welcomed the commitment to going down the route of mandatory disclosure. It is an idea whose time is long overdue. Any more information on the when and the how of that will be welcome. I know there is legislation planned in that area. I am concerned about those women who have not been diagnosed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Here we go again with the points of order, a Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. Boylan got a mention but I think Ms Maria Steen did not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: She mentioned Dr. Boylan in particular but she did not mention Ms Maria Steen. I bring that up because a very eminent person not aligned to either side, Dr. Mary Holohan-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: -----is a former dean of professional-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Oh dear.