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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: There is no maternity hospital co-located beside the children's hospital. It is a disgrace.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I come from County Galway and I know many people in Tuam. A friend of mine is a local historian there. People have been following the Tuam story very closely and taking the temperature on the ground. One major issue survivors have is with the fact that despite their pleas to the Minister when she met them in Tuam during the summer, they are still getting news of reports and important...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Human Rights (5 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for attending to address this important topic. I am sure he will agree with me that the crisis unfolding in Venezuela over recent weeks has shocked many people with news reports of people rooting through bins to feed their children, a crisis in the availability, as well as a lack of, basic medical care and supplies, along with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Human Rights (5 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I want to reiterate something I said in this House last week. While I welcome the general thrust of the Government's approach to this issue, it would be good if we did not just wait for the EU line on these issues. It is important we give strong moral leadership as a small country that has been known to do that in the past and is recognised and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The situation in Venezuela is going from bad to worse. The leader of that Parliament has had his bank accounts frozen and he has been banned from foreign travel. We are seeing Mr. Maduro putting on the heavy hand to shore up his highly discredited regime. Venezuela is facing a humanitarian crisis and it is endangering the lives of Venezuelans due to severe food and medical shortages as we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Westminster could do with the likes of Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister is very welcome. I thank him for coming to the House. One of the most unhelpful features of the debate on this issue is the continuing discrepancy between official Government statistics on housing and homelessness and the reality as experienced by voluntary groups on the front line. COPE Galway, an excellent organisation working with homeless families, has pointed out serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I am very disappointed by the fact that the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform refused to come before this committee. It is bizarre that the head of a Department overseeing public expenditure does not see it as his role to be accountable in some way for colossal cost overruns on the largest capital project in the health service. I would be grateful to hear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: We are very happy to have Mr. Breslin here, but it is a separate question. Given the projected catastrophic cost overruns, governmental officials should err on the side of helpfulness. If a letter arrives from the committee, it should be taken seriously. The Minister's essential defence is that we are now so far in it would be unthinkable or unconscionable to go back and have delays in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Is it not precisely because of the complexity on the St James's Hospital site that people were not able to cost the project properly? Does the Minister deny that that is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I would have thought it was evident to most people. Perhaps that is why the alternative-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Let us put it this way-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister seems to be in love with reports-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: -----but from the taxpayer's point of view, something scandalous has gone on. As a member of the Cabinet, the Minister received a detailed dossier from the Connolly for Kids Hospital campaign, as did other members of the Cabinet. He was given detailed submissions on why there were problems with the St. James's Hospital site. The campaign still points out, for example, that there is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: They do not come from politicians who are trying to score points but from medical experts, including one person with experience of building several hospitals, Mr. Sheehan, who cannot be said to have a vested interest in the project. What he and others have said is that this really amounts to an indictment of the political class. We can ask hard questions all we like of hapless officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I mentioned the political class because I do not think it is fair to blame any one political party for it. We had mismanagement under Fianna Fáil in the past with massive overruns and the evasion of accountability for the same reasons the Minister is giving today. I am thinking of the Dublin Port tunnel and various motorway projects. Will the Minister give an express commitment that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: That does not sound like a guarantee that it will not go over €2 billion.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I echo Senator Leyden's kind remarks. Perhaps he would go further and recommend that we stay here altogether and use the old Seanad Chamber for such noble purposes. However, that may be a matter for discuss on another day.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Monday's events were very good. It is tempting for us, looking across the water at the chaos our friends in Britain are experiencing as a result of Brexit, to run away with ourselves, start to feel condescending and clap ourselves on the back for how well we do things. Anybody who listened to Jimmy Sheehan, the founder of the Blackrock Clinic, discussing the new national children's hospital...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Night-time mayor.