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- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Rónán Mullen: In due course we might also have to debate the difference between south Dublin and the rest of the country on other issues.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Reports of disquiet and disunity within the Government aside, I welcome the report that social protection rates, as part of the ongoing discussions between the parties in government, have been ringfenced. There is great fear among the working poor about a property tax which some might find unmanageable. There is also fear about the impact of further cuts in social protection rates. It is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Many are terrified that it would lead to abortion on demand. For this reason, I welcome the Unite for Life rally today. There are people who want to show solidarity in providing the best medical care for women during pregnancy and the unborn child and who wish to protect the two patient model which has served the country so well. I ask the Leader to convey to the Government that it would...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Contrary to what the Senator says-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I hope there will be openness to a rolling on the debate on the expert group's report into the new year, if necessary. There are questions about the way in which the tragedy in Galway is being used. There is also great concern among the public about legislating on bogus medical grounds for what would, in effect, be an abortion on demand regime. There are also concerns about the expert...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I agree with Senator Darragh O'Brien's comments about the unfortunate way in which the expert group report was leaked. I ask the Leader for an early debate in the Seanad on the content of the expert group report. It is very unsatisfactory that this has been leaked and we have not had an opportunity to comment on its strengths, flaws or what has been included or excluded. I share the calls...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I am asking a question on the basis. With regard to the threat of suicide, a psychiatrist has a difficulty in identifying whether a person is suicidal. There is another hurdle if it is to be deemed that a woman is suicidal because a woman is pregnant, and in an opinion of whether an abortion would make the case better or worse. This is not good medicine but rather signing away the life of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Senator Norris for raising the issue. I note the Cathaoirleach did not interrupt Senator Bacik when she made the points she was entitled to make.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I was doing no more than responding to those comments, expressing my deep concern that the Government would be allowed, on the back of a very tragic case, to be manipulated into a swift decision that has nothing to do with good medicine and could open the door to abortion on demand.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: In fact, it will.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Yes. In considering what the expert group had to say, it does not seem to have made any reference to the possibility of consulting the people. On a matter this grave, it would seem that is a very significant omission. That must also be discussed.
- Seanad: Request to move Adjournment of Seanad under Standing Order 30 (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I wish to move a motion requesting the Adjournment of the Seanad for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter of public interest that has arisen suddenly. It concerns whether a person who favours injecting potassium chloride into the heart of a late-term foetus-----
- Seanad: Request to move Adjournment of Seanad under Standing Order 30 (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: -----and who favours abortion for girls under 16 years without parental consent-----
- Seanad: Request to move Adjournment of Seanad under Standing Order 30 (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I have not finished the wording. I ask whether such a person is a suitable person to be appointed by the health service------
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: It is imperative that we hear from the Minister for Health on the inquiry into the death of the late Savita Halappanavar. I have been extremely careful in my utterances in recent days but there are two core principles that we need to discuss with the Minister. The first is the need for independence. Whether the inquiry is public or sworn, the HSE will be seen to have a horse in the race...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: There is a serious-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Yes, I do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I never use my contributions on the Order of Business to do anything except raise issues that are seriously in the public interest.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: I am quoting writings by a person and entitled to draw a conclusion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)
Rónán Mullen: Yes. If an academic talks about taking the life of a foetus, whether alive or dead, after a late-term pregnancy-----