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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Is é tástáil na putóige a hithe.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would like to speak, but thought not at the same length, if I may.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will not speak at the same length as previously because, to some degree, the Minister has answered the question I wanted to ask. On at least two occasions, interestingly, he referred to the provisions that allow for the possibility of giving life-sustaining treatment pending a court determination in relation to an AHD. He envisages that such a determination or court issue will arise where...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I did not see that one coming.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will follow on from that. Is it now the case that in all our future legislation there will never be anything but references to "the pregnancy", when what is meant is the child in uteroor, in Latin, the foetus, which I think means "little one", that clearly identifies the human entity as the child in utero? Is there are any openness to something more precise, following on from what Senator...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Were the Minister kind enough to come back on Report Stage with specific answers to the questions I asked, I would be very grateful. The question I asked a moment ago might reveal my huge medical ignorance, as I said, but neither of us are medical people and it is very relevant. If it were the case, for example, that there were certain kinds of non-life sustaining treatment the refusal of...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Are you saying you would prefer the word "foetus" to "pregnancy"?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister has the apparatus of State behind him. Would he mind addressing the issues I have raised today on Report Stage? Will he address the specific questions I have asked, including the one about non-life-sustaining treatment?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am withdrawing my opposition. I am happy to wait until Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I listened to everything the Minister had to say about Cork Life Centre so I will not ask her to comment further. Having visited the place and met students and their teachers, however, it struck me, and continues to strike me, how particularly unfair it seems. When we have teachers who are giving a very targeted, specific and necessary service to students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response to my earlier questions. When my time came to an end, she was in the middle of talking about the concerns I raised about how some parents I encounter who worry the curriculum is getting a bit political - I might even say a bit "woke" in places - or at least there are moves afoot to push values in schools that might or might not sit well...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It would help if there could be an acknowledgement that there is, across the diversity of characteristic spirits, a similar commitment to ensuring students are equipped to deal with the world in which they live.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: However, values come into this as well. I have not heard anybody talk about not providing information but there is a concern that information can be slanted very easily and that could happen within the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA, as well. Whatever about consultation, which is important, at the end of the day, the Constitution and the law refer to the role of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe uilig. I thank the witnesses for their important presentations on this issue of great concern. It is fair to say that the call for resources would be a significant common denominator in all their presentations. I am sure they would have support from everybody in this room on that. I will throw a few hot potatoes of varying levels of heat at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: We would all want to wish Rishi Sunak the very best as he takes the helm in Britain. Let us hope that his term as Prime Minister will be one where there is a restoration in the quality of British-Irish relations. Let us hope that we are now entering a period of stability and greater rapprochement and understanding. Hopefully there can be important dialogue about issues such as the Troubles...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh agus cuirim fáilte roimh na haíonna uilig. Gabhaim buíochas leo as ucht an méid atá ráite acu. I thank the witnesses for their submissions and presentations. I endorse various things I heard, including what Mr. Honer said about the important work and role of SNAs and the need to put more structure and recognition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Hughes believes the problem is not just an exodus from Ireland but rather people getting through the system in order to train. That might apply in that area, but perhaps the question remains valid for other areas or even in that area to some degree.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Rónán Mullen: One of the most fundamental freedoms we enjoy as citizens of a democracy is freedom of expression. That is one of the things that marks us out from countries like China and many others that disregard human rights constantly. People are free in our society to express their thoughts freely, subject to the minimum of restrictions. The real test of our tolerance as people is our willingness to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I just wanted to put that on the record. It is important that we scrutinise this legislation carefully in the coming weeks-----