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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: RTÉ could sell that highly valuable property in Donnybrook and move to the centre of Ireland. It would be part of the solution as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I heard what people had to say this morning relating to a court case. We are very good in this House at giving out about things we hear in the media or being said in other fora. When it comes to how a lawyer defends his or her client, we must be extremely careful. We are legislators and if a change in the law is required about the rules of evidence, and specifically what is admissible as...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: It is how we will get to the goal the Senator wishes to achieve. I wanted to address a somewhat vaguely related area, which is the announcement by the Taoiseach and the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, that 45 senior posts in third level institutions would be earmarked exclusively for women. We should debate the proposal in the House...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I am not criticising her. I am mentioning her article. Why is it that anybody critiquing proposals like this, either on principle or because they see unforeseen consequences, be painted as either misogynistic, conservative or rooted in the past, either directly or by implication?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Surely this kind of name calling does a disservice to the attempt that needs to be taken to solve this problem, which is the cause of women in the professions.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Critics like Senator Bacik and others have been quite wrong about where the opposition is coming from. Many prominent women have criticised this proposal, including Ms Geraldine Kennedy, the first woman editor of a national newspaper. I would not describe her as one of the usual suspects. We need to think and talk. It would be a service to all of us if we could debate with the Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: There is nothing gradual about it.

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Are we disturbing the Senator?

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Senator McDowell is very interesting, as Members will be aware.

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise to my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin, for distracting him while he was speaking. He will understand that Senator McDowell is always stimulating. I would never like to prevent Senator Ó Ríordáin from hearing himself think. I have often felt that if he could hear himself think more often, he might not say some of the things he says. Having said that,...

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Indeed. I have apologised.

Seanad: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I have to take my share of the blame. I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate and to address the important issue of parental leave. This Bill proposes to expand the parental leave entitlement from 18 to 26 weeks, which is welcome. I am broadly supportive of the Bill. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection recently announced that she plans to provide...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: A lacklustre presidential election campaign has come to an end. It was occasionally bitchy in the non-gender-specific sense. Nobody's good side came to the fore.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I hope we never have to endure the likes of it again. At least Mr. Casey kept it from being boring at the end.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I want to raise-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I support my President.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I want to raise two separate but connected issues of human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of religious expression that have hit the headlines in recent weeks.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I am talking about something important now. The Irish political class often seems to talk tough about fundamental human rights in an abstract sense, only to be reluctant to step up to the plate when specific violations arise. Two particular issues challenge our sincerity on this issue. As we all know, the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a very brutal way in the Saudi Embassy in...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: He is-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I compare it to the Trojan army.