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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I am not confirming anything that Senator Buttimer has just said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Public hearings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I do not know that the Senator is making any particular point involving me because I was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Leave me out of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests and thank them for an extremely informative presentation. I would like to say that, in my view, there was certainly nothing tendentious about their presentation, and would that more had been like them in recent weeks in coming before the committee and laying out the facts very clearly according to Ms Donlon's experience and remit. I would like to ask about that remit,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Can we tease this out? Are the terms themselves defined in the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, or indeed anywhere else. The requirement is there, but is what the terms mean defined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It seems to me that so much of what the programme does is determined by the witnesses' understanding of what non-judgmentalism and non-directiveness actually require. Let me put it this way: we operate within a constitutional framework where the unborn baby is another person to be protected by Irish law, the second human being involved in the equation. In other areas of our culture, we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Donlon's reply seems to beg a question, however, because she uses the word "directive" as though directive is defined. I infer from what she is saying that she has a notion that what current counselling practice regards as directive would be that kind of behaviour that is, for example, suggestive of a better outcome. I put it to Ms Dolan, however, that is not necessarily the only case...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Chair for her indulgence. Before I conclude, I wish to say that there are many other important issues, including the question of whether the IFPA engaged in rogue activity, which I would like to have raised-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I only wish it would happen. My time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests. It is estimated that 195,000 carers provide a minimum of 6.6 hours of care per week. I think that was the metric cited. Does that include people who are receiving the full or partial carer's allowance? Is that how the statistic is measured? What is the number of people cared for? I presume that in some cases more than one person is being cared for in a particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is there a reason the Department has not attempted to put a value on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It is important in doing budgets and it would justify things.

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.