Results 5,241-5,260 of 7,643 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State is saying that whatever they want is fine.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State could urge the association. He could urge it-----
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: They have offered to put every penny they have ever got in rent into a rescue plan.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: Did we not say that?
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: They are the ones feeling railroaded.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: Is the Minister of State saying that the closure of Cuisle is part of the reform? Is that what he is after telling us?
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: Choice is being denied here.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: That is what the Minister of State said.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State is taking a Pontius Pilate approach today.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: He does not mind that it wants to close it.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State has indicated no preference today for what he would like to see happen.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: It is deeply disappointing.
- Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State does not have to take lectures from anyone but if he would be open to changing his mind, it would be a decent thing.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, am I, under Standing Orders, allowed to offer Senator McDowell a point or to ask for clarification of what he is saying in the course of his speech?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: Is it the position, as Senator McDowell understands it, that this bar on the appointment of a former judge of a foreign jurisdiction applies to a certain period of years?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: If I may seek clarification from Senator McDowell, the bar is on somebody who practised as a barrister or solicitor outside of the jurisdiction-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: -----more than 15 years ago?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: This may end up being voted on. I am only interjecting to the extent that Senator McDowell is willing to facilitate my understanding of this. If I understand correctly, from what Senator McDowell is saying, a person who practised as a barrister or solicitor in a foreign jurisdiction more than 15 years previously and has not done so for 15 years is not deemed tainted, so it is the equivalent...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: Does Senator McDowell have a view as to why the 15-year bar applies to one category but not to the other?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)
Rónán Mullen: It seems to suggest an ontological change in judges of a kind normally associated with priesthood.