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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh na haíonna ar fad agus gabhaim buíochas leo as ucht a bheith linn agus as ucht na bpáipéar a chuir siad chugainn. I will address my first question to the ASTI. I have read its submission and I note how it recalled the recommendations of Professor Áine Hyland on options such as the decoupling of the leaving certificate from higher education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: On that point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: On the question of career progression, we all frequently encounter parents and students who say they do not know what to do or what course to go for, etc. I often find myself saying one thing to remember is that people should be less worried about getting it right or wrong from the get-go at third level. People are much more mobile between courses, and between work and courses, throughout...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Austick spoke about the goal being to reduce the competition of the points race and to support students to have an equal opportunity to attend higher education, with which I am sure everybody would agree. She talked about addressing the unacceptable inequality of outcome which is perpetrated under the current points race system. Does she mean inequality of outcome or opportunity? I ask...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I would like to follow up on and commend Senator Ned O'Sullivan on what he had to say about anti-Semitism and the decision by author Sally Rooney to refuse permission for her novel to be translated into Hebrew. Perhaps somebody needs to remind her that Israeli people are normal people as well. Perhaps this is an example of when virtue signalling can actually turn quite vicious, wittingly or...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: That is true. We can always call out foolishness or, at least, I hope we can in this House. There is a lot of it abroad in the culture at the moment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Agreed.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There is a big difference.

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: This will not do. The Minister of State and Senator Cummins sounded like they wanted to scream but they would not dare to do so. They are like two flight stewards who have discovered that the pilots are taking the flight to London and on to Paris and they want to shout and scream and tell us all they are crazy but they are afraid that they will panic the passengers. It is obvious that...

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I know that, but the Minister of State's tones are measured. Does it not want to make you scream? This is a bizarre, crazy and irrational situation. We need to hear the Minister of State say that. The old phrases about selling ice to Eskimos, sand to Arabs or bringing coal to Newcastle spring to mind. Importing peat to store it next to a bog would be laughable were it not so serious an...

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: You might as well throw in “grotesque” as well.

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thought the Senator had said "national school" there.

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Senator McDowell will lead. With the agreement of the House, we will share time.

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Like the philosopher of old who heard the fine speech that went before, I think I should just tear up my notes. It is very hard to disagree with anything Senator McDowell has said. One of the things that makes me uncomfortable about hate crimes legislation, as is proposed, is that it in some way creates a hierarchy of victimhood, suggesting that some crimes are less serious than others and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Codail, a laoich dar thugas grá, codail go sámh i m'bhánbhaclainn, tusa mo rogha fear Fáil, thatr rí na bhFiann is a chóir fairis - Codail, codail, a chúl na lúb, le faobhar na hoíche, codail, a rún. As Senator Ned O'Sullivan said, Máire Mhac an tSaoi - and Brendan Kennelly - represented the best of our tradition, writing and...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This is a simple, one-issue Bill which deserves support from any Senator who has a genuine interest in solving the student accommodation crisis. It would prohibit, for 15 years, any application for the change of use of student accommodation to either residential accommodation or to a hostel, hotel or any other kind of tourist or short-let...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with what Senator Kyne has said. Perhaps Passport Express should be renamed "Passport stopping at all stations". I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for mentioning the mass for the late Sir David Amess today, to which people of all faiths and none are welcome. It is no harm at this point to thank all those who made this possible, including the British ambassador, who will address the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh ár n-aíonna agus gabhaim buíochas leo as a bheith linn. On that last point, I agree with Professor Hegarty there is certainly much more we can all be doing to try to generate a love of our first language in the country. We all understand incentives as well. Perhaps if a certain mastery of Irish were a requirement for progress within academic...