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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: The Chair rightly made the distinction that I did not make clear when I put the question between those who receive carer's allowance and those who do not. There is a figure of 195,000 carers providing 6.6 million hours of care, an average of 38 hours per carer. Some are getting some kind of carer's allowance and many are not because they fall below the threshold due to their existing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Of those 195,000 carers, how many would get some kind of allowance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests and speakers. Perhaps they could give us some assistance on the figures for all of this with regard to the demographics and where they are going, if possible. We heard earlier that there are approximately 195,000 people giving care at an average of 38 hours per week. It is approximately 6.6 million hours of care. There is a larger number receiving care. In some...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I was listening to "Today with Sean O'Rourke" this morning, which led, not surprisingly, with the fiasco caused by the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy John Halligan, asking a discriminatory question as to whether a woman was married, a question which has cost the State €7,000. Later in the programme the discussion turned to Jane Austen's novel,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: He might ask them the wrong question as well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Absolutely, but pay up when you cost the State is the fundamental principle.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: He is full of Christmas cheer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I would like to indicate interest and I would like to make a comment when the Chairman is ready.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: The Chairman did not see me. Does the Chairman want me to pass up a note?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Chairman. We appear to lack a procedure to allow an intervention at a relevant point because I merely sought and wish to know and request that the Chairman would read the letters into the record, the letters from Dr. McCaffrey and the letter from Both Lives Matter. I think it is as relevant to the work of this committee that people who were invited give their particular reason....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: So may I clarify-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: May I clarify that first, I think it is a matter for any invited guest to determine whether they should attend. The Chairman is now criticising their decision in their absence. That seems to me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: The Chairman clearly is, if she is saying that they should attend. It seems to me that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: It seems to me all the more reason why one should read their view into the record. May I ask the Chairman about the decision regarding what may be read into the record and what may not? Please assist me. Is this laid out somewhere in procedures? Or is this the Chairman making a decision on the fly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I think what is different here, Chairman, is that it goes to the credibility of the committee. The committee did, in my view, impugn its own credibility. The Chairman herself was interviewed on RTÉ about this. There is a clear question mark in the public mind as to why the committee did not wait to hear from all witnesses before moving ahead with a very substantial recommendation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: -----there is an issue with certain invited guests. It is interesting that people outside of the jurisdiction have noted this very irregular approach taken by the committee. It forms the basis for their refusal to come before the committee. On that basis I believe it is in the public interest, and in the interests of the credibility of this committee, that the invited guests, and as I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I will wait for the Chairman to finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: There is more to it than that, with respect. I would submit that the explanation that the Chairman has just given is disingenuous. The Chairman is now saying that when a name was suggested originally, that the Chairman did not take it on. I have always stated at this committee that it is the Chairman's response, and the secretariat behind the Chairman, to propose a list that would test the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: On a point of order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Yes, it is a point of order. Deputy McGrath has made a proposal which I intend to second, which is that the-----