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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I use a smartphone myself; I am not a complete Luddite. I thank Mr. White for a comment he made. I have heard so much at meetings of this committee from people obsessing over faith-based schools and constantly implying they are somehow soft on bullying of a certain kind. It is often due to a misunderstanding over the culture of inclusion in our schools. Sometimes it is anti-religious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests and thank them for their rich insights. I was struck by what Mr. Mulconry said about people having shorter concentration spans these days. I wonder whether it means anything that we are only being allowed six minutes to concentrate our questions to our guests. I was struck by Ms O'Dwyer's comments on the vicious circle of a child being bullied because of his or her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am happy for people to pull from the pie.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We know the good it does but there is clearly something wrong. It is a question of some kind of access.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. There is always a balance to be identified between an agenda to remove what are objectively obstacles to people's equal participation in society and the economy, which one must always support, and where this drifts into the area of social engineering, which I have an issue with, when we start to tell people and families how to live and arrange their lives, identifying...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There are good choices and bad choices.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Having listened to the contribution made by Senator Eugene Murphy, with which I agree, and the response made by the Minister of State, I was reminded of a line that may have been incorrectly attributed to the late Dr. Garret FitzGerald. He was reputed to have objected, on one occasion, to a policy measure on the basis that while it was all very well in practice that it would not work in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Nobody ever said PIAB was a court. I accept that the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, is just a messenger for another Minister of State but, on a previous occasion, when Deputy Michael McGrath asked a parliamentary question on the same matter, the then Minister, Deputy Humphreys, at least stated baldly there were no penalties involved where...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: No, we would not.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: No, it would not. If there are lies-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am doing something unusual this morning; I am opposing the Order of Business. I do so because I object to the Government's disgusting habit of constantly proposing, and implementing, the guillotining of legislation in this House. It happened again on Committee Stage of the Affordable Housing Bill on Friday, 4 June. Many amendments were not discussed, including one of mine. We have been...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I, too, compliment former Senator, Pádraig Ó Céidigh, on the excellent initiative he brought to the House in this legislation, which puts on a statutory footing what was already an offence under common law. This body of work is a credit to him. It is good that the Government accepted it and that amendments were made in the Dáil on Committee Stage. Indeed, at the time...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Very good. I will conclude on this but I want to make the point clearly-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I will. I will just finish the point clearly because the Minister of State is present. I have given him the example of another non-quasi-judicial body, namely, the HSE, and in the context of the nursing home support scheme-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There are stringent provisions against making false or misleading statements to the HSE, with a penalty of up to three months in prison and a fine of €5,000 for knowingly or recklessly giving false or misleading information in an application under the scheme. The point I am making is that the Government has to stop coming into the House and giving cooked-up and on-the-hoof replies to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: It is not extraneous to this extent------

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We are discussing legislation that makes it a criminal offence to give false and misleading information in court proceedings but we have a body that is set up to reduce insurance awards------

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ------and to save money, yet the Government is fatuously opposing or denying there is a need to amend the law to make it an offence to give false and misleading information to PIAB. It makes no difference that PIAB will only determine a matter where liability is not in issue. There can be situations involving conspiracy between the person making a claim and the putative defendant of that...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: -----concerned about the rights of private parties? That is a completely unacceptable state of affairs.