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Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: If taxpayers want those services and there are taxpayers in the country who would want those services-----

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: -----then why should they, as taxpayers, not have a State that pays for some of those services some of the time?

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Galway made a final back in 1998.

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I was raising the 1998 final for the benefit of Senator Wall.

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Will it be okay if I share time with Senator Victor Boyhan?

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. I was walking down Grafton Street the other day and saw a man staring at me. As I walked by him he looked at me and said, "Deputy Robert Troy?" and I said, "No, Senator Rónán Mullen". He looked crestfallen, almost as crestfallen as the Minister of State looks on hearing that story. I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister of State for bringing...

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: It is all in the hair dye. I better put paid to that rumour.

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Bill is welcome. There has been a lot of talk about it for a long time, but it has been a long time coming. I understand that in 1998, the year Galway beat Kildare - there were probably ticket touts around then - Young Fine Gael proposed it. There have been many calls for and promises and proposals on this Bill. To paraphrase "Bleak House", the young person who was promised a new...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (6 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to raise the issue of what are called patient private property, PPP, accounts. These accounts are administered under section 2 of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. Essentially, they are accounts that are administered by the HSE on behalf of vulnerable people who are in long-term residential care facilities run by the HSE or on its behalf. In the main, it applies to elderly...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (6 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. We have seen from attempts to deal with the Covid crisis, particularly in the context of nursing homes, that it really makes no difference whether people are being cared for in the HSE sector or in the private sector when it comes to certain responsibilities the State has to keep people safe. People who go into private nursing homes often do so...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: It is time we had a debate about the problem of human trafficking and how we are dealing with it in this country in light of the latest Trafficking in Persons, TIP, report, which was published by the US Department of State recently. As colleagues will know, this report monitors international standards on combating human trafficking and is viewed as the most comprehensive analysis of trends...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit arís go dtí an Teach. I broadly support this Bill, as I did the recent Affordable Housing Bill. As I said then, the scale of the housing problem is such that the Oireachtas should be willing to make serious direct interventions to tackle it, and to give the Government the benefit of the doubt when it seeks to do so. The Bill establishes...

Seanad: Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I wish Robert and Aideen a long and happy married life together. I hope everything goes well on Thursday. I have no doubt that it will. I support this Bill. The proposals contained in it stem from a 2020 Company Law Review Group report, but I recall there were calls for legislation along these lines during the 2009-10 period when so many companies were failing for so many reasons, which...

Seanad: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome this Bill in that it gives businesses and particularly small and family-owned firms, some clarity in relation to the reopening post-Covid. Earlier this afternoon I welcomed the introduction of the Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill, and this Bill provides some welcome supports which will hopefully help to minimise the number of businesses that are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Gabhaim buíochas mór leis an gCathaoirleach. There are two Bills on the Seanad Order Paper on the problem of gambling. One is Senator Wall’s Bill which would ban broadcast and non-broadcast advertising and then there is Senator Ward’s Bill which would ban betting on the national lottery. Both of those are very welcome. It was a happy coincidence that President...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Indeed I am and I was speaking about the separation of powers even while referring positively to his comments.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: That reference was proper. In conclusion, the Government has promised legislation on this issue and Senator Wall has welcomed that. He is right to do so but we need to be careful as to how the vested interests might act in the interim. The figure from 2019 is that some €90 million is being raised in gambling advertising revenue which is double what came in the year before. As we...

Seanad: Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There would be no guillotining of proceedings then.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (15 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Curim fáilte riomh an Aire Stáit. It is not an exaggeration to say that the increasing care needs of our growing elderly population are probably one of the most urgent social crises looming over the Irish State in the next 30 years. Our ballooning national debt may be at dangerous levels, but it can be inflated away and renegotiated. Climate change, for all the attention it gets,...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister is welcome, but I oppose the Bill. The time has long passed since the Government could seek to get the benefit of the doubt over its Covid-19 measures. Ministers have consistently shown such rank contempt for both Houses that any request for new powers ought to be flatly denied. As usual it will be nodded through by Government Senators as was done by Government Deputies before...