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Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Executive should try to lead.

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I will not hold up the House. Before we move on to a final vote, it is important that we would remember that this is an important piece of legislation. Senator Leyden is to be commended for his persistence in bringing forward this legislation. This legislation has a long back story. I hope Senator Leyden's persistence will be rewarded with a landmark development this evening with its...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Forgive the digression. Apologies. The Government's line on the Bill is pathetically thin. It contends that voluntary registration would offer no proof regarding the existence of a subsequent will or codicil, and is correct in that regard. Indeed, compulsory registration would not offer such proof either. The Minister also made the point that voluntary registration would not be proof of...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: It is the same kind of argument presented when we are told that certain proposals might have unforeseen consequences. If there is a system for the voluntary registration of wills, the public will be informed of what that means and what it does not. As I understand it, it will not mean that there may not be some other will or codicil in existence. A registered will would not necessarily not...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister may see this debate as an opportunity to update the Seanad on the "new children's hospital", to use his words. I see this debate as an opportunity to ask him certain questions that he has not satisfactorily answered. This comes down to two core issues. The first issue, which I asked him about at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health, is whether the massive cost overrun...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I do not hear fundamental concern for the best option, having regard to children's welfare.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: As soon as I think of a better phrase, I will offer it to the House. The question strikes at the heart of the Government in view of the political damage caused by the abandonment of the previous Mater site. Surely any examination of the cost overruns must address whether the choice of the St. James's site is part of what caused the problem.It is certainly possible, if not likely, that the...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I think I am entitled, in view of interruptions.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I am drawing a line between what I regard as the Minister's position on one issue and the cynical dressing up of Government choices as being about protecting the best interests of children in this case, when many experts, people at the coalface of children's medicine, are tearing their hair out at the choice this Government has made. The most cynical thing of all, and I have heard the...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: -----a significant financial cost but the Government has already exposed us to that anyway. I put my questions and I stand over my points. My core questions were whether the financial overrun is connected with the complexity of the site the Government chose, whether in persisting with the site it chose, it is endangering children's welfare into the future, as many medical experts claim, and...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: It is not grandstanding, it is medical experts-----

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I am only returning the compliment to Senator Humphreys.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator does not care about the children.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator has no credibility on children.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: We cannot do so.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: That is pie in the sky.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick calls it pie in the sky and he knows more about it than the Minister and I do.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I agree. They are all in this together. That is why they are getting away so lightly. The parties cannot point a finger at the Minister without pointing it at themselves as well.

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: A benefit?

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (7 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I did not slander the Minister either, by the way. He has an opinion with which I disagree, as many people do.