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Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jun 2018)

Rónán Mullen: It should be common practice. Copies of statements are always requested.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jun 2018)

Rónán Mullen: We would not be asking the Minister for a script if he was not using one. I just want to make that clear.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jun 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The Minister is very welcome. I am sorry for being awkward earlier on the subject of scripts, but everything that the Minister had to say was very interesting and there were points in his speech that I would have liked to have been able to refer to, word for word, but cannot. I would make the point again that it is very useful to have Ministers' scripts....

Seanad: Report on Children's Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I join other colleagues in congratulating Senators Freeman and Coghlan and all those involved in the creation and bringing about of this thorough and thought provoking report on child and adolescent mental health services. It has been said many times in this House, and is restated in Senator Coghlan's introduction to the report, that mental illness should be treated no differently from...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I am not the only person in this Chamber to have been saddened by the result of this referendum. I must say, on behalf of the one third of the voting population who voted "No" on Friday, that I am very sorry for all of those children who will lose their lives in the future as a result of this decision and for the many women who will be hurt by the decision to have an abortion, as often...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I thought I misheard the last time. Last week at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, I welcomed the commitment to going down the route of mandatory disclosure. It is an idea whose time is long overdue. Any more information on the when and the how of that will be welcome. I know there is legislation planned in that area. I am concerned about those women who have not been diagnosed...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Here we go again with the points of order, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Dr. Boylan got a mention but I think Ms Maria Steen did not.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: She mentioned Dr. Boylan in particular but she did not mention Ms Maria Steen. I bring that up because a very eminent person not aligned to either side, Dr. Mary Holohan-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: -----is a former dean of professional-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Oh dear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you. I was thinking of Dr. Holohan, a former dean of professional competence and a current practising obstetrician in the Rotunda, who says "the medical needs of the mother do not require the removal of the Eighth Amendment". It is a really strong statement from somebody in her position, as she regrets that "there appears to be a campaign strategy" to suggest otherwise. That is very...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I have no interest in calling the man a liar but he has serious questions to answer at this stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of order-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: In the Sunday IndependentI saw the Minister stress the point that the entirety of this scandal concerned people who had already been diagnosed with cancer. That has been the entire focus of our discussion. However, it prompts my thinking about the many women who have had cervical checks and are wondering whether there is information which, because of a lack of test accuracy or human error,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: What is the breakdown of those three categories among the almost 12,000 calls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to return to the CervicalCheck scandal and then I have two questions on abortion prompted by the Minister's comments. To go back to the issue of mandatory disclosure first, I was particularly impressed by an article by Pat Leahy in The Irish Timeslast week, which the Minister may have seen, in which Mr. Leahy gives some deserved criticism of us all as a political class about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I do not know. The jury is out on this one. We have not heard from the Minister yet. It is not just broadcasters who decide, by the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: The Government solicits coverage for issues, sometimes at taxpayers' expense, as we all know from the recent debate. It is not just broadcasters who decide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: No. The spending of money would be illegal.