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Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I have listened with great interest and with great respect to the contributions so far on Senators MacConghail’s and O’Donnell’s amendments. There are so many different threads to this issue but I am happy overall that the tone of this debate is one of respect. Hopefully, we can keep that going over the coming days. I certainly will do my best. We ought to because this...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I was and I am sorry if I did not recall Senator O’Donnell had said it.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise for that.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise for that but I did not hear Senator O’Donnell use the phrase “remorseless logic”.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I do not think there is any need to fight about this. The point was that it is not a legal precedent. Senator Norris used the phrase “legal precedent” when it is not. I have difficulties with the term “incompatible with life”. I have myself used the term “fatal foetal abnormality” in preference to it. There is a key point that some seem to be...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I always thought consultants were addressed as "Mister".

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I find myself in agreement with Senators Jim Walsh and Colm Burke in that I have no doubt that, as Senator Colm Burke said, the Bill intends to legislate for the Supreme Court's decision in the X case and to activate or implement through legislation the provisions of Article 40.3.3°, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling that the Bill started out as...

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State should be quoting Bruce Springsteen these days.

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. The State is facing a significant problem of overcrowding in prisons, an issue which the Bill seeks partly to address by way of provision for the construction of another prison. It should be noted, however, that this is not the route being pursued by other countries. It is disappointing, moreover, that because of financial...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, the Minister keeps referring to treatment for suicide. Does he mean suicidal ideation? I think his words are causing a lot confusion.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: That is an awful slur on those of us who object to this legislation in principle. It is mindless.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Harte is not the only one who can think for himself.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: He is not showing any respect for other people's minds.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: What lies before us today represents the first attempt to enshrine in statute law the idea that some human lives are less worthy than others. It is an affront to the fundamental equality of all human beings and the pre-eminence of the human right to life. An Taoiseach claims that in proposing this legislation his book is the Constitution. In reality, it is Labour's way. It is that party's...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: Further, the good faith test does not incorporate a duty to deliver a viable child from the womb alive. In other words, the reasonable opinion required imposes no duty to ensure that, where practicable, a viable child should be delivered alive rather than aborted. This will not really affect the operation of sections 1 and 8. In practice, and as a matter of law, it permits a section 9...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: Suicidal feelings.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator should vote her outrage.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment to the Order of Business kindly proposed by Senator Quinn that Members would have 20 minutes each on Second Stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, I do not believe the Leader is in order in specifying the time permitted for each speech under Standing Orders. I raise this point having asked last week that we have the same amount of time per speaker on Second Stage as was allowed in the Dáil, which I believe was 20 minutes. Like others here, I do not intend to engage in any long-winded contributions or...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: I might ask for your ruling on this issue, a Chathaoirligh. The relevant Standing Order is Standing Order 16 which establishes the right of the Leader to propose, at the commencement of public business, the business for each sitting day and the order in which it shall be taken. It is true that in the Dáil the Taoiseach may propose speaking time limits, but the Leader does not have the...