Results 3,181-3,200 of 7,582 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Saying it on the floor of the Seanad is much cheaper than buying newspaper space.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: The Government has the free platform of the Houses.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Just give us a debate on it. That is all I ask.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I believe that is what is called "a false dichotomy".
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: There is a happy medium between overload and nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: No, that is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Let the good news tell itself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I agree.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Please.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I think a lot of people would make a lot of interesting contributions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Yes, which is a hell of a lot of public money to begin with-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: -----before we start counting the price of putting ads in newspapers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I not having a go at press officers. I am just saying-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I did not criticise the unit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)
Rónán Mullen: The spending is my beef.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Arrah, sit down here beside me, David, why don't you?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)
Rónán Mullen: Two weeks ago I referred to the emerging concern about the over-prescribing of certain drugs. I indicated that the prescription rates for some opioid painkillers had increased by over 200% between 2006 and 2016. I am talking about drugs use to provide pain relief, anti-depressants and sleep-related drugs, some of which are habit forming. Questions about finance and for the Exchequer also...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I have listened to several colleagues speak about the sale of loans by Permanent TSB to an investor, a so-called vulture fund. I was particularly taken with what my colleague, Senator McDowell, had to say as he got to the heart of the matter when reflecting on his professional experience of cases of people losing their homes. He spoke to the heart of the moral problem in this area. We know...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Rónán Mullen: -----so that the homeowner could have one last shot at negotiation? Alternatively should we be thinking of something bigger? Should we be thinking about some kind of instrument or some kind of body that would be given access to privileged information about the deals on offer and which would then be able to intervene and to deal with individual homeowners? Those are the kinds of solutions...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)
Rónán Mullen: I raise an issue that Senator Colm Burke raised the other day that I think is very important. I am not sure whether a specific response was given, which can happen, and I apologise if I am mistaken. I refer to the emerging issue of the troubling over-prescribing of addictive and habit forming drugs. Those of us who have been to the United States have often noted and a been a little...