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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.

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

Rónán Mullen: Is that a nightmare?

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

Rónán Mullen: It sounds like a nightmare.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am intrigued.

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

Rónán Mullen: I would welcome an invitation.

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

Rónán Mullen: I do not get out much.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with what Senator Kieran O'Donnell has said. It should also be pointed out that Irish agriculture is extremely sustainable and clean by international standards, which is a point that is not highlighted regularly enough. Like many Senators, I am contacted frequently by people who are in need of life saving drugs. I welcome the availability of the Pembro drug to women undergoing...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I will conclude shortly; this will not be a Second Stage speech. I believe I heard Professor Michael Barry, the head of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, say on "Morning Ireland" yesterday that the decision was made at ministerial level in what he hoped was a one-off process. He said that he would ideally like to see the drugs coming on-stream via the normal process. At the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I am happy to keep listening. I have some questions but I am continuing to formulate them in the light of what I am hearing from the various participants-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I am happy to begin when the Chairman wishes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the witnesses for attending, for their presentations and for answering questions. It is probably not unjust to characterise our two guests on the left as fundamentally opposed to much of what is in the Bill because they see it as fundamentally in breach of a child's rights in principle, given that a child is losing a genetic connection by being separated from at least one of his or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: In that case, is Professor Hayes generally persuaded by what our two friends from the National Infertility Support and Information Group are saying, that is, that there is a fundamental breach of child welfare when this practice happens at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Is Dr. Rose conflating two issues? I have problems with it from an ethical point of view. If I understand it correctly, however, nobody is being deprived of the opportunity to pass on his or her genes. The question is whether one is to be allowed to know the person whose genes have been passed on? Are they not two different matters? If what Dr. Rose is talking about is a provision that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Deputy Harty is the Chair but I am conscious that our two friends on the right, Ms Barnard and Ms Keegan, might WISH to contribute as well. I have other questions but I am happy to wait.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I will not tell the Chairman how to do his job, but I believe Dr. Rose wanted to respond on the research. If he is happy to allow her to do so, I am happy to give way to her on that issue as I have something to say about research.