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Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Seanadóir Ó Domhnaill as ucht a chuid ama a roinnt liom. I would like to add my voice in support of this excellent Bill and commend Senator Daly on bringing it forward. I also welcome those from the coalface, the experts and the members of the deaf community who have joined us here today. Like others, I too was impressed to be contacted by so...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: There were a number of very interesting contributions on the Order of Business. I was very taken by what Senator Daly had to say about the important challenges facing tillage farmers and what Senator Mulherin had to say in her reference to former President Mary Robinson's comments, in which she urged people to go vegetarian or vegan as far as possible. Like a lot of Irish people from a...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I am not talking about-----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I am not talking about the kind of grasses that have worried people like this man in the past or the legalisation of grasses for other uses that bother other parliamentarians.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rónán Mullen: I might surprise Senator Buttimer some time.

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.