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Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am not one of the people who generally condemns Éamon de Valera or de Valera's Ireland. De Valera was a very gifted man and did many things that were good. It is generally accepted that perhaps a low point was when he called on the German Embassy at the end of the Second World War, when Hitler died. To give de Valera his due, he waited...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Check against delivery. I am not faulting the Minister of State personally-----

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The Government has a case to answer-----

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will have it checked.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I very much enjoyed the time he and I spent together on the parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe. I understand he is not opposing this Bill. I commend him on his own proposal to introduce legislation on the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. If the Government is minded in...

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am just a humble small-time plumber.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his very comprehensive reply to my Bill and my proposal on this matter along with all my Seanad colleagues for their contributions. The Minister of State deserves great credit for the work he has been doing to date. I certainly look forward to his wider set of PIAB-related proposals in the legislation he promised to bring forward this evening. I also...

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I too welcome the visitors in the Gallery. Of course, I do not agree with them or with what they seek but it is politicians who should primarily be held responsible for bringing forward legislation that is neither constitutional nor necessary and for doing so on the basis of claims about decent, harmless people that we already know to be very untrue. It is about honesty. There are deeply...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am asking people to be very careful about taking claims and using them for political purposes, claims that may in fact be fully mendacious and untruthful, and may be lies. If they are true, then there is a breach of personal data that must be investigated. It is not those people who are witnessing to the dignity of the unborn outside the clinics who need to be investigated-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would not want to say that-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Absolutely.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am certainly happy to clarify that because, as I have said, I get on well with personally with Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I think what I said - and I am happy to check the record - but I think that what I said was that he had failed to draw attention to the House that the information on which he based the legislation, the claims about intimidatory behaviour that were contradicted by the University of Limerick Hospital Group, was actually shown to be untrue. I think that I also said, or communicated in such a...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will conclude with this. The Minister said he would advertise openly. Not only did he not do so, but he never put it on the record that he was not doing so until it was dragged out of him by parliamentary questions in recent times, when he revealed that a small number of people were invited to express interest in the role of independent chair. He then appointed somebody who had engaged...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am not. I think the issue is-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That being said-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am finishing up. All I would say is that is the latest spin. That is the first I have heard of that new definition of independent.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: So we are being told.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am concluding. This is important because what I am putting on the record is that claims that we know to be false in some cases, and may well turn out to be false in the case of the most recent claims that have been made, are being used to bolster legislation. The Minister is not standing athwart those claims. In everything he is doing, he is seeking to facilitate and express clear...