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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I am not sure I would call it progress but I will report it anyway.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (22 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: The European Court of Justice will not have to give any decisions for the rest of the month.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I also welcome the students from St. Tiernan's and I encourage the fifth and sixth years there to take part in our annual Oireachtas essay competition - oireachtasessay.ie. They could win €1,000 for the best essay in Irish or English so I look forward to seeing their entries. I also welcome the Estonian ambassador. Taking the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn and visiting the Irish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I join Senators in extending my sincere condolences to the family of Michael O'Regan, The Irish Timesand his friends and colleagues in journalism. May eternal rest be granted to him. Michael was a very pleasant man and it was always nice to deal with him. He had a lovely voice and interesting things to say. Like every good journalist, it was not just a matter of him telling war stories....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Can I not get it now?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, it is standard.It is not genuine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: You need to beat them at both tiers.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank Senator Chambers.

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The phrase "An Irish solution to an Irish problem" is in many ways much abused. Any derision about it denies our capacity for ingenuity and creativeness when it comes to trying to deal with certain problems that inevitably arise in Government and administration from time to time. Far from offering us even an Irish solution to an Irish problem...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: -----whether it is farmers worried about forestry, turf cutters or people who wonder at the amazing expectations other people have for cars on the road by a certain date, for certain amounts of carbon sequestration or for the end of fossil fuels, which we would all like but which cannot be achieved easily or in the short term. It would be timely for Green Party members in government to show...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: There are 70 operational turbines the Minister of State does not want to give a chance to. If I was writing the Government's school report, I would be saying "Can do better". Maybe I would add in another couple of words: "Can do an awful lot better." I invite Government Members to have a rethink. The lack of imagination and the arrogance underlying it has led to a "Computer says no"...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Ceaucescu-style pillboxes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (15 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. What is the purpose of a university? Is it to explore, research and engage in debate and the open exchange of ideas, as most people would expect and have always believed, or is it to ensure that everyone thinks the same, believes the same things, adopts the same ideological approach to topical issues, discounts the latest evidence-based research,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (15 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of his State for his reply. As I would not have him down as one of the most woke members of the Government, I regret that he has been shackled with the job of responding to this matter. I would like to face the Minister, Deputy Harris, directly on this point and I would like him to face me. What we have here is an explanation that it is all right, the law is fine and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank our guests for coming in. Reading between the lines of Dr. Ní Bhriain's statement, one might sum up page 1 by saying, "Don't do it", sum up page 2 by saying, "Please don't do it" and sum up page 3, as a lay reader, by saying, "Oh God, please don't do it." The clear subtext of this paper is to point to the many concerns we, as members of the committee, have heard about week...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Is Dr. Twomey confident that safeguards could address what is, let us face it, a long list of risk issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Has Dr. Twomey a professional view as to whether, if assisted dying were to come in, it would be better to keep medicine and medical professionals out of the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Proponents of assisted suicide from other jurisdictions have suggested that this can be done as part of palliative care and it should sit alongside it. Palliative care experts have said it holds back and would interfere with palliative care. Is it Dr. Twomey's view that it would interfere with palliative care and the way it can be delivered? Does it bring about a fundamental change of...