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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: A report commissioned by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has shown declining levels of public trust in RTE. It has fallen from 68%, to 61% in 2015. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, has expressed concerns about this, and I share those concerns. This warrants further investigation and monitoring. It is essential that the State...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Does the Deputy Leader still have hers?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Haunted bread and circuses.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The level of bias shown is the more serious issue.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Go raibh maith agat.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Last week, Senator Landy raised some pertinent issues regarding the Harold's Cross greyhound racing track. A number of other issues of great concern arise concerning the operation of the greyhound industry. I believe the relevant Minister is the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Andrew Doyle, who has responsibility for food, forestry and...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I hope we can get a particular focus on it because it is sadly the case that a gentleman who was found by the Australian greyhound authorities to be using live animals for baiting and who was barred from working for the industry in Australia, and who I believe was barred in England also, is back working in a kennel in Ireland. I wonder whether the Minister...

Seanad: Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. There is unanimity that this tribunal is important, necessary and welcome. I have been a critic of the choice of tribunals as opposed to commissions of inquiry. Let me put it another way. I have welcomed the emergence of commissions of inquiry as an alternative to tribunals. However, I am prepared to believe the circumstances in this case are so serious and...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Tréaslaím leis an Seanadóir Keith Swanick as an méid a dúirt se maidir le cúrsaí árachais agus an cás a tharla i gContae Liatroma inar d'fhulaing fear a chabraigh le duine eile. There is a real issue regarding the good Samaritan case that arose in County Leitrim. I commend Senator Swanick on raising it. I had planned to intervene in it myself....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: -----are supporting Irish Aid packages. It would be prudent, to say the least - I will conclude with this - to accelerate diplomatic contacts with coalition forces involved in the Yemeni war to prevent further suffering among the civilian population. We should certainly respond with money but we also need to use whatever bit of influence we have diplomatically.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It was not only women Members who were involved.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I was the first to mention the issue in this House.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: That is altering the fact.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Senator McDowell has raised a very important point and I commend him on his tenacity in insisting on raising these issues. I would appreciate further clarification. What Senators McDowell and Bacik have had to say is very interesting. Am I right in thinking that the questions of the standard the defendant must reach to access his or her defence and the different definitions of persons with...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I would be grateful if the Minister of State could further address the question of the level of proof that the defendant, under a section 21 offence, must reach. How is it less than the burden placed on the person in authority under section 22?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: With respect to Senator Bacik, it is not appropriate to be talking about wrapping up the debate until the issues are sufficiently clear. Some very important points are being ventilated here. The nub of this appears to be that there is a category of vulnerable people in respect of whom it would be an offence for a person in authority to engage in sexual activity, but it would not be an...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Design good.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I fail to see how the Minister of State's argument that some cases might involve consent proves the case that the maximum sentence should be ten years as opposed to 14 years. We are not talking about mandatory sentencing here. We are talking about a range of options that are open to the court in a range of circumstances, and if there is not consent, the ceiling is hit at ten years, whereas...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I was not one bit disturbed by Senator McDowell’s comments. I commend him for making his case with passion and to the best of his considerable abilities. I listened carefully to what he said and read his article in The Sunday Business Post. In fact, he made his case so well, he almost convinced me on occasions. What I do not like, however, is the parliamentary trolling that goes on...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Roughly speaking, we can talk about three categories of people who will be affected by this legislation, the first of which comprises those who avail of so-called sexual services by purchasing them. Those who provide such services fall into the other two categories. Everybody agrees that pimps and controllers, who comprise the second category, should be criminalised and they will continue...