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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the announcement by the Government about the establishment of a commission of inquiry into allegations of historical sexual abuse in Irish schools. In particular, I welcome that this is going to focus on all day and boarding schools. I was particularly concerned about the narrowness of the remit given to the previous scoping inquiry. In focusing on all day and boarding schools...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: We learned in recent days that the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, has recommended that we rerun the referendum on Article 41.2 of the Constitution that relates to women in the home. In our Constitution, the State recognises that woman, by her life within the home, gives the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved and the State...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Last week, I spoke about the ridiculous report of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, and how it wants us to rerun our care referendum on mothers in the home. That committee was not satisfied with the overwhelming rejection by the Irish people of tired modernist thinking and thinks we should try again.I now draw attention to that same...

Seanad: Draft Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (16 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. I welcome the inquiry and wish the judge well. I hope the process will contribute to the processing of pain from past injustices by survivors and to their getting the justice they deserve. I am glad this commission has a broad remit to include all schools. I understand the scoping inquiry grew out of the brave testimony by the Ryan brothers and so on, but it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I spoke yesterday about my concern about the religious orders' interactions with the State and the need for them to be very careful about being bullied by the State in the context of future redress arrangements concerning not abuse in schools, which is a very separate thing, but what happened in mother and baby homes. I do not suggest that there is not a case in some cases for redress but I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: They must not be planning on travelling in the coming days.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Think of all the money you are saving on hotels in Dublin.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I might need more than five minutes. I may come back in after the Chair with a supplementary question, if that is okay. I thank our guests for being with us. I am very concerned about the term "age assurance". As I have said previously, I worry that this is something that is less strict than age verification. Will the witnesses give me an idea of what exactly is meant by age assurance...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Does Coimisiún na Meán have the power to influence how platforms police it? If they take a laissez-faireapproach, is it all the same to Coimisiún na Meán? Is it left up to them to decide what their standards are?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Platforms are held to their own standards, not to those of Coimisiún na Meán.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Okay.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I am still not clear what doing their best means or why it is left to them to do their best. Where is the age assurance? What does that mean and how far do they have to go? What are they required to do to stop children from being able to access their stuff?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: What does Mr. Kenny mean by frictionless?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I think you will admit, Chair that it is in a good cause.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: The witnesses are completely ILWA - in love with acronyms. I wish to ask about two things - malinformation and pornography. The Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, recently defended the need for a national approach to combat what he called online misinformation, disinformation and malinformation. Malinformation, as I understand it, refers to information that is accurate but which might be shared...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Let us say one had information that was true but likely to cause annoyance, unrest or hostility. It could be about crime statistics and particular cohorts. I do not want to get into inflammatory examples. It would not be misinformation or disinformation.