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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: It was amendment No. 23 on page three of the amendment list. The amendment was not moved. My query, a Chathaoirligh-----

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I do not suggest we debate it, except to the extent that I have discussed it now. What I am wondering is whether that will suffice for the purpose of Senator Quinn bringing it up again on Report Stage.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I thank all of the experts on Standing Orders here present. Amendment No. 195 amends section 67 on page 74. Currently, the Bill provides that an advance health care directive is legally binding only when it relates to the directive maker's refusal of treatment. Section 67(3)(b) states that a request for a specific treatment is not legally binding. This means that every decision against...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The amendment I propose is restricted to requests for artificially delivered nutrition and hydration. With regard to any possible objection that this would involve unnecessary burdens for the patient towards the end of their life, it would be entirely possible to add any necessary qualifiers to the provision I propose. For example, it could be indicated that the guarantee to continue or...

Seanad: Charities and Voluntary Organisations: Statements (8 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Tá a fhios agam nach bhfuil mórán ama fágtha againn, ach ba bhreá liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an Seanadóir Ó Murchú as an ábhar seo a ardú sa Seanad ar maidin. Tá sé fíor-tábhachtach go bpléimis é. It is to Senator Ó Murchú's credit that he raised this issue this morning and it is important...

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...