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Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: On the specific question I asked-----

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I asked the Minister of State about the dissolution-----

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: As the Minister of State rightly says, it is the few. Unfortunately it is the few we have to legislate for. My problem is that the Minister of State is putting the patron under an obligation to ensure something they do not have the power to ensure without dissolving the board. This is prior to the section 37A process. Leaving section 37A aside, if a board of management is not complying...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That is not the question I asked.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: What is the problem with my amendment?

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I appreciate the Minister of State's efforts but she has not responded to my specific question. She says she is not seeking for the patron to seek to the dissolution of the board where they fail to comply. That is not my question. Given that she is putting a legal obligation on the patron to ensure something which the board may not comply with and which may, in turn, trigger a section 37A...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with Senator Carrigy's sentiments. The origin of this debate lies in the unacceptable situation of a lack of school places for nearly 100 children in September, but there is a process that has to happen for everything. If I ring a board of management and tell it that it should provide a special needs class, it will ask me who I am, whether I know a class is needed, whether the...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: This legislation would amend section 37A of the 1998 Act, as amended.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I came across some very wise words in recent days. I will read the quotation: It is not the new inventions which are the difficulty. The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery. They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will finish with this. I refer to the use of the quotation "trans rights are human rights". I am sure I agree with that if I could be sure what it fully means. I hear it used almost with the same frequency that politicians fob in at Leinster House. I worry that we must not just seek political success through the use of slogans. We have to try to interrogate the issues carefully-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: -----to interrogate the issues carefully-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will just finish my last sentence to all sides. We need to interrogate the issues with care and compassion with a search for truth and seek to distinguish between the things that are inalienable human rights and those that are claims that may be contestable or that may be subject to debate. That is our role in here, not the constant repetition of phrases which cause more confusion than...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Would Senator Clonan like to speak to the issue in the section? It is his opportunity to do so. I also wish to speak to the amendment, but I am happy to give way to Senator Clonan as it is his amendment.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would also like to speak to the section because of the particular issue Senator Clonan has raised. Once again, we find ourselves in a situation whereby the dreaded Standing Order 41 interferes with the ability of Members to put down substantive amendments which deserve to be considered. It would have been appropriate that Senator Clonan's amendment be dealt with because it relates to a...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am in full agreement and I commend Senator Clonan on bringing forward the amendment. I agree with everything that Senator Seery Kearney said as well. I came to know of a particular case a number of years ago where a large award was made. The retired President of the High Court, Mr. Justice Kelly, addressed people at the end of the case. He said to them that this was a very large sum but...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would be grateful if I could tease this out with him. I defer to his knowledge of the Bill as he has been with it for a long time. The amendment specifically goes to an area where a person is making decisions on behalf of another person as a decision-making representative. Is that at the higher level of intervention and support where person A is...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: This is another amendment that I am happy to support. I listened to the Minister's response and there is a certain logic in it because the last thing one would want to see is some kind of a conflict between the contents of an advance healthcare directive and the contents of an enduring power-of-attorney arrangement. One of the concerns would be that the EPA is something that is very well...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am not a member of the joint committee and others Senators will have engaged with this matter much more than I have. I wonder about it at a human level, however, because I imagine there are people who would rather not have to get into all the specifics. I certainly know of families where a person is quite clear who he or she would want to make the necessary decisions for him or her when...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to speak on the section. It will take a few minutes. I am opposing section 73 of the Bill, which amends section 85 of the 2015 Act. That section, as it stands, allows for consideration of the interests of unborn children in a very rare set of circumstances. In summary, the existing section 85(6)(a) provides that where a woman lacks capacity and is pregnant but her AHD does not...