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Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I am very glad Senator Lorraine Higgins brought up the issue of education. I call for a debate sooner rather than later, with the Minister for Education and Skills coming in and giving an account of the stewardship of the Department of Education and Skills. We have had media item after media item about parents allegedly being told to baptise their children in order to get into Catholic...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Bradford speaks for me 100% in what he has said. The Labour Party on this issue has lost all credibility and any claim to be defenders of human rights has gone out the window. Senator Bacik and others have never expressed opposition to abortion in any of its aspects internationally, which is a remarkable and disturbing fact. I wish to be associated with the tributes to Mr. Bernard...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Of course, it was all about spin and justifying the padded cushion on which they sat because it should not require-----

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: -----exorbitant salaries to give good service to the people they represent.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: We find ourselves in a situation where a series of excellent amendments tabled by Senator Gerard P. Craughwell which I had intended to support have been ruled out of order. We do not have a chance to discuss them because of the overly broad interpretation of the rule that amendments which involve a potential cost on the Exchequer cannot be considered by the Seanad. I know that the Seanad...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: No, it is not agreed.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 9a:In page 11, line 30, after "Society" to insert ", the Honourable Society of King’s Inns". My amendment would insert the words "the Honourable Society of King's Inns" to add that society to the list of professional bodies in the definition section. I should also stress that adding the King's Inns to the list of professional bodies in this section does not...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I am grateful to all my friends. I am sure even if there was not a Seanad election in the offing that I would have a colleague to second the amendment on this occasion.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for that.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to be associated with the expression of best wishes to Jimmy Harte and his family and the welcome extended to Senator Máiría Cahill. I welcome the Senator to the practice of the vocation of politics, which is how the former Taoiseach, Mr. John Bruton, described politics last night at the launch of his book, Faith in Politics. As one would expect from Mr. Bruton, he made a...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: It happens in here too.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Is léir go bhfuil bagairt an-mhór ann do theanga na Gaeilge san am atá i láthair, go háirithe sna ceantair Ghaeltachta. Tá an Ghaeilge i riocht níos laige agus níos leochailí anois ná mar a bhí sé riamh. I second Senator John Crown's excellent amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Caithfear aghaidh a thabhairt ar an bhfadhb thromchúiseach seo agus céimeanna praicticiúla a ghlacadh chun an teanga a chosaint agus a bhuanú. Ní mór sin a dhéanamh go práinneach, ach cén chaoi? Sin an cheist. Creidim gur chóir dúinn é seo a phlé sa Teach seo ach tacaím go mór leis an éileamh a rinne Conradh na...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

Rónán Mullen: There was a very interesting debate in the other House this week on the question of whether members of the Traveller community should be recognised as a separate ethnic community in our society, although it sometimes seemed essentially to be a battle between the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn for the "most righteous...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I congratulate the Acting Leader on his role. I do not know if it has a pensionable aspect to it. I thank him and other colleagues for being present this morning at the briefing session with Aid to the Church in Need, where we learned, yet again, about the crisis facing Christian communities in the Middle East. At a time when numbers of displaced people and refugees have hit an all-time...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Cathaoirleach and I will conclude by stating that the declaration calls for the right to a timely diagnosis of the condition, the right to access quality post-diagnosis support and the right to person-centred, co-ordinated, quality care throughout the illness. It is important that this House should hold a debate on the challenges facing people with dementia and those who care for...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 3:In page 13, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“(c) by the insertion of the following new subsection after subsection (10)—“(11) Nothing in subsection (3)(b) and subsection (4)(b) as amended shall be construed to prevent or invalidate the solemnisation of any marriage, or be construed so as to refuse to register or cancel the...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: He would be speaking in Spanish, for one thing.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for her response. I am not satisfied with it because I do not believe she makes any issues clearer. This amendment was considered carefully by me and it has been the subject of legal analysis. I am trying to do my job here. I do not believe the way this section is drafted meets the standard elsewhere in the Bill. If it leads to problems in the future, on the...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I doubt it and it would be a first.