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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: How would our other European partners react?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Let us hear the advantages for saying "Yes" as well. Please can we have an end to this and can the debate start here in the Seanad, the place with the reputation for stimulating debate?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Please can we have an end to anti-intellectual argument——

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: ——such as that we will be the laughing stock of Europe if we do not vote "Yes" or "No" or whatever it is. I am sorry for going on, a Chathaoirligh. I appreciate your indulgence.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I am opposing it.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to add my voice to those of the Minister and my colleagues because this requires clarification. The distinction requiring to be made concerns the situation in which several people hear or read defamatory comments, which is the basis of most defamation cases, and appears to be what the phrase "multiple publication" seeks to convey. There is also, however, a legitimate concern about...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Some natural bodies do not have feelings.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I think the sinking feeling referred to something else of which he was having a premonition.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I never cease to be impressed by the quality of Senator O'Toole's CV. It is fine, however, for Independent Senators to disagree with each other from time to time. On this occasion, I disagree with both my highly esteemed colleagues. I am sure that does not surprise them.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I am strongly convinced of the importance of this section. I suggest to Senator Norris and others that it is not simply a question of feelings nor is it merely a matter of reputational damage, as my colleague, Senator O'Toole, described it. Incorporated bodies have been protected in our laws for a long time. The notion of the veil of incorporation in company law exists for a reason — to...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: If it was true, it cannot have been defamatory.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: He is undead.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I thought the sun shone from there.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: One can say anything about all of them.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: On a sheet of paper distributed in the House, certain sections have been very helpfully grouped together for our consideration. I see that section 12 is linked with section 31. I wonder if it should not in fact——

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise. I was going to say that section 29 is very much connected with section 12. In considering the issue of the Supreme Court having the power to adjust the award of damages, what consideration has been given to the question of whether it should be a jury that awards damages at the level of the High Court, as is provided for in section 29? If one considers the analogy with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: The sins of the fathers will be visited.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: We do.

Seanad: Substance Abuse: Motion (19 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Tá céad míle fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Chomh maith le daoine eile anseo, ba bhreá liom tréaslú leis an méid atá le rá aige faoi chúrsaí drugaí agus alcólachas. Molaim a chur chuige agus a mhodh múinte freisin. While I welcome this debate there are aspects of it I do not welcome. I worry about our tendency to discuss these matters in a frenzied moment when events occur in...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Rónán Mullen: Dexterity and agility alone would not be called into question.