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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: If one speaks to people in Teagasc, they will emphasise-----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: -----just how important it is that we get the maximum yield for grass. It is an important issue.Like many people, I was brought up to believe that we should live simply, so that other people might simply live. I might have disagreed with what former President Robinson had to say on other human dignity issues in the past but she is bang on in what she is trying to do in the area of climate...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Manus Cooney (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: We missed our chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise for not being here for the start of the meeting. I welcome Mr. Farrelly and wish him the very best in his important work. We are involved with charities in one way or another, whether it is shaking a bucket at the weekend or visiting a local charity that we want to try to assist in whatever way we can. We are all hearing the impact of the wrongdoing of the few. We hear of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Just to give a case in point, I have a friend who has done good work in Haiti and he came back recently and is trying to fund-raise to send out a few quid for them. I would maybe send out an e-mail to the world at large or to anybody who is remotely connected with me and I would let them know of a golf classic on such a date, but if my contacts wanted to send me a few quid, payable to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I am sorry to put Ms Cahill on the spot, but sometimes it makes a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: If I may, I will ask a supplementary question on that. If an organisation is set up, is doing a normal activity and then weighs in heavily in a political way on a very political issue, does the regulator have a role in accepting and looking into complaints from the public and are there-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I do not know what is meant by the term "contested space". Are there different views as to how it should-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: What is the regulator’s role in getting new charities off the ground?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Rónán Mullen: What is the order? They incorporate and they go to the regulator. Do they still have to go to the Revenue Commissioners in the old way?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I have raised the issue of media partisanship in a couple of contributions I have made in the Seanad recently. I await a response from the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to the specific issues I have raised with him. While we wait for policy makers to take the lead in ensuring more fairness and balance, particularly in publicly funded media, the problem continues....

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Where hurling and history rhyme.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: It is mother's milk there.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Was that "Lay Lady Lay"?

Seanad: Citizens' Assembly: Motion (15 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with every word that Senator McDowell has said. It is no wonder people have such little respect for politicians when we show such little respect for ourselves. We are the citizens' assembly. We are the persons who have been given a mandate to tease through all sorts of issues, difficult and less difficult. One of the most serious issues of our time, one of the most difficult and...

Seanad: Citizens' Assembly: Motion (15 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: It was pre-emptive.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: What does that mean?

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Allowances for Seanad officeholders.