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- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I also raised the issue of Saudi Arabia's intervention.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: From everything I hear, the Cathaoirleach is much easier to work with than the Speaker of the House of Commons.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: He is also very witty. I would also like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy on the passing of former Deputy Seymour Crawford. I knew Seymour and found him very pleasant company. I extend my condolences to his loved ones. This month we have seen the introduction of an air ambulance service in the south-west area based in Cork. The new service is run by Irish Community Rapid...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: There are lots of subtexts going on there.
- Seanad: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (18 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute on this issue. It is important to recognise that housing and homelessness are more than just issues of bricks and mortar or of the millions or billions of euro that are, or are not, being invested to address the problem. At its heart, this is fundamentally an issue of human...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Many people where I come from, and I suspect many others around the country, feel a great deal of sympathy for former Minister, Deputy Naughten. While we all understand the importance of correct procedures and scrupulousness when it comes to procurement, it is clear to me that the former Minister was very keen to pursue an important policy objective, namely, to deal with the scandal of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I understand the discrepancy was 15,000, but I will come back to the Leader on that. This revelation follows a far more serious discrepancy that emerged last year, when it was revealed that 89 homicides were not included in official statistics for a 14-year period due to what was called a process issue. The IT professionals investigating the matter felt intimidated and stonewalled by Garda...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I would be grateful if we could have an interaction with the Minister on this issue to establish what is being done to look at these discrepancies. We need to be precise about the discrepancies, what has caused them and what is being done to make sure they do not arise again. Can we be sure that in future, the Oireachtas will make fully informed policy decisions based on accurate and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)
Rónán Mullen: With the economy in good health again there seems to be many in the Government and in the cosseted semi-State sector who seem to think public money ought to be thrown around once more like confetti on various pet projects instead of being spent on various projects with people in urgent need or even returned to hard-working taxpayers who earned the money in the first place. Relevant here is...