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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: So it is no longer the parents' right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: That is interesting.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Is breá an rud é go bhfuilimid anseo. Is traidisiúin é ag an pointe seo go mbíonn plé i nGaeilge go mór mór faoi chúrsaí Gaeilge agus cúrsaí Gaeltachta sa Seanad ag an tráth seo den bhliain. Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite ag mo chomhghleacaithe faoi na rudaí...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He reads it for Twitter.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I commend Senator Victor Boyhan for the way he spoke about the Tuam baby story. He spoke with great conviction and compassion. We have a lot to lament in the way we treated the living and now it seems our dead. Let us remember and learn from what happened. The lesson for us all in this and other cases has to be that every child deserves life, respect and, ultimately, love. That applies...

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?