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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: We could all be elsewhere.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I second everything Senator Conway has just said. When the presidents of our universities speak out, we should listen. They are people who are not prone to negative hyperbole. In fact, they have the important task of putting the best foot forward when marketing their universities and colleges nationally and internationally. When the president of UCD warns the sector is at risk, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I will regretfully disagree with my friend and colleague, Senator Flynn, on her reaction to the Government's announcement that it is pulling in its horns, so to speak, on the hate speech dimension of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill. It needs to be understood that every reasonable person in our society is against hateful communications. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Those people who do must be thick, thick, thick.

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Next Monday.

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Acting Chair. Again, I thank the Minister for taking this debate and for her encouraging words and challenging words in respect of the contents of the Bill. I also thank all of my friends and colleagues for their contributions. I learned something from each and every contribution. I would see myself very much as a free speech advocate. I am very concerned, as people in the...

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Gabhaim buíochas léi as ucht teacht anseo don díospóireacht. We are all aware of the increase in sexual crime, including sexual violence, in our society. Some, but only some, of the increase is due to a greater readiness to report such crime. Due to high-profile cases, there is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with Senator Burke's intervention. It would be nice to get a hot roll on the rolling stock, I often think. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that item No. 7 be taken before No. 1. This is to enable the introduction of the protection of children (online verification) Bill. The Bill is in the interests of child protection and would require access to pornographic...

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: First Stage (4 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act, in the interest of child protection, to require that access to pornographic material on the internet be subject to an age-verification requirement and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: First Stage (4 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Next Thursday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Míle buíochas as teacht isteach. I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and my colleagues for allowing me to go first because I have to go to a meeting at 6.15 p.m. I apologise in advance that I will not be around for the full proceedings. My first question may seem a hard one but I do not intend it to be a hostile one. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Should the old system apply until the council has something in place because there is a blockage now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: The other example I gave was of somebody who might have to bump along on the bottom point of the scale because they do not have a formal teaching qualification. What are the options for them? Would they have to sign up for a two year programme that would take them out of the workforce? Is that really necessary? Is there not an emergency response needed here? The council has to regulate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Ramsey for her answers and the Acting Chair for her indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I have no doubt that my questions overlap with colleagues’ questions, so if Dr. Ramsey wants to add anything in the course of her answers to other members, I will check the transcript carefully if I do not get back.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I want to second what my friend and colleague Senator Malcolm Byrne said. I extend my sympathies to the family involved and, indeed, to the Canadian people. It is a scandal that this happened on our premier street. With the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth coming up next year, unless something is done, the best way we could honour him as things stand would be by taking his...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Cathaoirleach. This is my final sentence. When it comes to public service broadcasting, responsibility is not just about the way you use money; it is about the way you deal with matters and about whether the public can trust you to offer impartial and unflinching scrutiny, regardless of whether it is comfortable or not for people to hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: What did I say?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise. I did mean to say "retired" in fact.