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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: -----he sneered, "Perhaps Irish embryology textbooks." We should take no lessons from these people who purport to be defenders of human rights.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Sir Nigel Rodley is in fact an abuser of human rights. Let us consider our attitude to these committees and their membership in due course and let our Government not be so fawning on them when they meet them in international forums.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Ba bhreá liom i dtosach báire fáilte ar ais a chur roimh mo chomhghleacaí, an Seanadóir Norris. Ba mhaith liom a rá freisin go dtacaím go huile agus go hiomlán leis an méid adúirt an Seanadóir Byrne. Is aisteach an rud é amach is amach gur ceapadh beirt Aire le freagracht ar chúrsaí Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta gan iad a...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Protection of Older People) (Sentencing) (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Protection of Older People) (Sentencing) (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to proceedings in criminal matters to establish rules relating to the sentencing of offences under the main non-fatal offences against the person and the law relating to assault causing harm and serious harm and threats of serious harm and false imprisonment and theft and related offences and to...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Leyden very graciously wished the new Bishop of Elphin, Dr. Kevin Doran, welcome and Godspeed to his predecessor, Christopher Jones. I would like to join with these wishes given that he is also the new Bishop of Ahascragh. Two parishes in Galway are part of the Elphin diocese, Ahascragh Caltra and Ballygar in Newbridge. We could have had a session of the Seanad because the Seanad...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business to have No. 20 taken before No. 1 today. This would introduce my Criminal Law (Protection of Older People) (Sentencing) (Amendment) Bill. I believe it would be appropriate to have a debate on the manner in which we in society, particularly the Government and the Legislature, deal with the laws that have an impact on vulnerable groups,...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I wish to speak briefly in support of the amendment. A number of us raised this issue yesterday on Second Stage with the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock. That the merged entity will be known as the Environmental Protection Agency cannot but be a statement about the relative importance of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Ó Murchú spoke earlier about the impressive rally by Leader groups across the country which took place yesterday outside the House. What he did not say was that he was among the fine, eloquent speakers on the platform, although those of us who know and listen to Senator Ó Murchú will not need to be persuaded as to his eloquence. He spoke very clearly, as did...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the Minister of State and wish him a fair wind as the ship of his political career navigates the waters in the days ahead. This Bill is very welcome and, as the Minister of State has said, it does several useful and important things, it provides for the merger of the RPII and the EPA, and provides the enabling legislative framework to...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I am seeking a debate with the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources regarding his announcement that he has received Cabinet approval to introduce legislation to enable An Post to access Sky and UPC subscription data. We are told that is part of a drive to reduce TV licence evasion, but it seems to me that the Minister is proposing to allow the rifling of private data to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: -----that we need the post office network in Ireland to be available to those in rural areas. Whatever it takes, we must not fall for mere commercial arguments about such matters as competition if there are important issues of local cultural value to be protected.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I sympathise with people who would like to see all the Garth Brooks concerts going ahead. I was surprised, nonetheless, listening to Senator Averil Power and others that there has not been a note of censure for those who made this arrangement and led people to understand that these concerts would take place, in apparent disregard for the requirements of the law or the need to have the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: It was not personal at all. It was a statement of fact about the Deputy Leader's colleagues.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I draw the House's attention to comments made yesterday by four Dublin Labour Party Deputies, Deputies Kevin Humphreys, Robert Dowds, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Brendan Ryan, who tabled a Dáil motion on the local property tax. They stated, among other things, that councils in Dublin urban areas must not be placed at a disadvantage in terms of funding from the central...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I am asking for a debate on the property tax and I am explaining why. These people have injected an element of Dublin versus rural Ireland into the property tax issue, no doubt as a last-ditch effort to save their seats in the face of angry and betrayed constituents, and I find it disgusting. I call on the Deputy Leader to urgently seek a debate in the House on property tax with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator has raised the level of the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: We hope Senator Bradford has a poem of his own.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Abortion Legislation (2 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for his response. I understand from it that the thrust of the Irish Government's position will be in favour of protecting children in that situation and preserving their lives. Will it be possible for us to access the brief from the Irish Government, both at the initial stage and also as the attempt to reach consensus is made? Is it possible for the Minister to furnish...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Abortion Legislation (2 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister, Deputy James Reilly. This matter arises from written question No. 655 submitted on 31 January 2014 to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe by Mr. Ángel Pintado, a Spanish MP, concerning late term abortions and the rights of newborns who survive late term abortions. As stated by him, in a number of European countries which allow late term abortions...