Results 321-340 of 7,648 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: All of these sections are important and I have a couple of questions for the Minister. This is the section that sets out, in the context of domestic surrogacy, who may be intending parents. The section provides that a surrogacy agreement may be entered into by two intending parents, jointly, or by a single intending parent and that any intending parent shall have attained the age of 21...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: This does allow it through celibacy, now that you mention it. We have this bizarre situation where high-profile people have been able and enabled to have children through surrogacy. We have had the stories about wanting to bring them in from Ukraine in the context of the war and so on. All of that is stuff we can readily sympathise with, within the facts as they are. The problem is there...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Does the Senator make-----
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I still am.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for that important clarification.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Senator Ruane was not in the room. She has not been doing her homework.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If she paid more attention, she might have a point to make.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We are at 4 o'clock and the Minister still has not got to the contingency.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Most of the time we cannot even get one.
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I wish everybody here well. Senator Keogan and I have sought to make the case that there is another side to this issue. The happiness of people here today will make other people sad as a result of the denial of human rights, the exploitation of surrogate women and the denial of certain children of their rights. Every child is welcome and nobody should ever be stigmatised. However, I...
- Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We have to respect each other's sincerity and the sincerity of each other's aspirations. When I used the term "those people", I always said it, as the Senator knows, with the deepest of respect for people, even when I disagreed with what they were doing or had done. Everybody deserves to be loved and cherished at the end of the day.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I dtosach báire, déanaim comhbhrón le muintir Mhíchíl Uí Mhuircheartaigh. Tá laoch ar lár inniu. Fear mór Gaelach, galánta, a bhí ann agus ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. I think the first time I met Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was when I was a student of journalism.He was very kind to me when I was doing a project on the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: -----and then let them talk about protests.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am not aware of that rule. He is not accountable to us in the Chamber. I am not aware of a rule that he is not to be referred to.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: He is often right, but when he is wrong, he is badly wrong and he should call himself aside on this issue.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I look forward to seeing that rule in writing, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: If I may say so, as I understand it, there is a separation of powers and we respect the separate legitimacy of other roles. However, to say that in the national Parliament nobody can be the subject of critical comment, respectfully delivered, is not a rule that-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We would not and should not comment-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We would not comment on matters that are sub judice, but-----