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

Rónán Mullen: The idea of human dignity can unite people coming from disparate backgrounds, including people who come from a strongly feminist persuasion who approach this issue through that philosophical or ideological lens. As everybody here probably knows, the origins of Ruhama are rooted in the good work of certain religious congregations that have been focusing on the issue of human dignity. Human...

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

Rónán Mullen: Nonetheless, it got people tweeting quite a lot. I mention this because it is closely related to the point I am making in so far as it shows how quickly a tipping point can be reached that results in the exploitation of others. The exploitation of others - and it is mainly women who get exploited - is at the heart of prostitution. I was very impressed by a column written by Breda O'Brien...

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

Rónán Mullen: Will there be a time extension?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Last week the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Mr. Michael Donnellan, told the Committee of Public Accounts that Irish jails had become modern asylums, with many inmates suffering from severe mental health issues. One aspect of the problem concerns the welfare of prisoners discharged from the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum and transferred to prison. They may have posed a...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Will they keep denying Catalonia independence also?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In the House yesterday I strongly criticised President Trump's executive order on immigration and the manner in which it had been introduced. However, I am very conscious that it is easy to criticise President Trump; in fact, it is something of a global pastime. What worries me is that we do not seem to challenge other elite people in authority in the same way. Perhaps it is time to have...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The poor man.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The Leader should tell him to bring his umbrella.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I think the Leader was looking for the word "comprehensive".

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: That is the whole problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: People who are conditioned by the media do not hear the hard questions at all. They are living in a bubble.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I am sure the Leader was very glad.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I, too, regret President Trump's executive order relating to immigrants and refugees, and I certainly think it is a retrograde step in terms of promoting solidarity with some of the world's most vulnerable people. However, there were no protests against the Obama Administration's already mean and ungenerous approach to the admission of Syrian refugees, if the United States is compared with...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Táim ag súil leis. Tá Ard-Rúnaí nua ceaptha ag Roinn na Gaeltachta. There is a new Secretary General in the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. We wish Ms Katherine Licken the very best.Ní Gaeilgeoir í. Níl Gaeilge aici, bíodh go bhfuil an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht mar chuid dá freagrachtaí. In...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In conclusion, I am very disappointed with my own alma mater, NUI Galway, or UCG as it was in my time, whose governing authority took a decision recently that the Irish language would not be a requirement for the next president of the college. This went through on the nod. Fair play to Deputy Catherine Connolly, who raised it in the Dáil. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, shrugged his...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Fair play also to Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, who brought forward legislation on this very point that would make it a requirement that the person appointed to such an important job would have Irish. The Government did not oppose it at that point. It seems to me that a lot of lip service is paid to the Irish language. However, when one considers the amount of goodwill towards NUI...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He will not hear this praise again until his retirement.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The issue is the requirement for the appointment . It is not the person but, rather, the requirement.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He could do what Deputy Eamon Ó Cuív did and introduce legislation.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I want to clarify a matter. The Leader and I had a lively exchange yesterday and I want to put it on the record that I have the height of respect for him. Perhaps part of the misunderstanding arose because Pro Life Campaign is a specific organisation. I am certainly in a position to say that the organisation is not - as the Leader said yesterday - well able to get money from abroad and to...