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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.

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

Rónán Mullen: We are the only ones giving a bit of leadership around here.

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

Rónán Mullen: Some people already need to be reminded that the citizens' assembly is not being called to consider the repeal of the eighth amendment but to consider the eighth amendment. I presume this will mean equal time will be given to the side that holds the view that we should see how the eighth amendment should be kept, what measures are needed to give proper effect to it - for example, should our...

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

Rónán Mullen: The bottom line is - I mention it only in passing - that we should not be in awe of blueprints from bodies which claim to articulate human rights concerns but have in fact a debilitated notion of human rights and would seek to exclude whole sections of the human community from the protection of the law. No detail has been given today about how often people are going to meet and for how long....