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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...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: They are entitled to go to law, just like any other constituent. Whether they are right or wrong is another matter.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: From listening to the debate so far it is clear to me that everybody wants to see the speedy passage of this legislation so that we can move on to this new era which offers so much promise to many of our students. It is not going to be compulsory, but some colleges have done a huge amount of work with a view to merging and enjoying university status as technological universities. It is also...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: People who were students in Galway in the early 1990s generally look back on the period as a golden era. Quite a bit was written about the Mullen presidency. I had a lot to learn about the media though. I remember leading 2,000 students on a demonstration against overcrowding on campus, which was pretty bad at the time. People were sitting on the floor eating their lunches beside the...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I remember turning up at the RTÉ studios expecting to get on the news that evening.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I was not aware that there were things like press releases which had to be sent in advance so that the media had an idea what one was about. To return to this issue, it might be the case that some change of wording here would, in an ideal world, be desirable but I am not sure that it is critical. The question of whether one would include the word "autonomous" or talk about students' unions...