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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 are all going on the hoof here. I ask the Minister to give me some credit.

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: I am not trying to-----

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: Now, now. The Minister is trying to get away. That is what is-----

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: It was an interesting half-question and it was not meant to put the Minister in any kind of a disadvantageous lie.

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: My point is that the Minister said earlier that he is not open to looking at the points system and that way of access on the basis that the CAO is the best show in town until he sees another one. Okay, then. I would like a more reassuring answer as to whether he would be open to further discussion and examination of the Athena SWAN Ireland charter and how it is operating in light of the...

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: I am hoping for the Minister's vote.

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: Gabh mo leithscéal.

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?