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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: I have listened with interest to the various contributions. I echo the request by Senator Mac Conghail yesterday for a debate on the Cloyne report at the earliest opportunity. I will reserve my remarks for that debate. Others speakers have said it is important to approach that debate as people who have briefed ourselves fully, first, by reading the report. As all of us come from different...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: We will not in any way detract from our solidarity with victims of abuse and from our annoyance with church inaction and bad practice in the past, by also making space for a greater realisation of the many good changes that have come in since such as the Vatican's position as expressed recently to the various dioceses in the world-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: -----and the good practice being carried out on the ground. I do not think this is a question of -----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: I just wish to make that point and I will conclude. I look forward to the debate.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: Is that Government policy?

Seanad: Unfinished Housing Developments: Statements (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The Minister of State is welcome. As chairman of the national co-ordination committee, the Minister of State has the unenviable role in the management of what is a difficult issue to have to deal with. The Minister of State will be working with bankers, developers, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and local authorities....

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit; I welcome the Minister of State. I have no doubt he is aware that I was one of the Senators who opposed the civil partnership Act in the House last year. I would be a hypocrite were I not to state I continue to be concerned about aspects of that legislation. Therefore, I cannot support aspects of this Bill because it flows from a false premise or a...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: That is correct, Ms Justice Dunne made it. She ruled that it would be to give it an interpretation which was simply not compatible with the constitutional understanding of marriage. I am not confusing the two issues. I am merely making the point that there are significant issues that we must consider. When we import a notion of equality, we must ask who else will seek equality in the...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: I do not believe I suggested that.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: It is a fundamental constitutional term.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: Res ipsa loquitur.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: The thing speaks for itself.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: That is creeping in again.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State might wish to withdraw that comment, on reflection.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, I ask the Minister of State to withdraw that comment, if he does not mind. I know he probably said it in jest, but it was about me being a fundamentalist, if I heard him correctly.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: I do not think he really meant that, did he?

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: I just wanted to put that on the record.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: It was a pun of a kind.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Bacik was correct to bring up the issue she raised this morning. Her concerns about women's representation in politics are well known. I also share her concern about the representation of women in politics, which is a different but no less important matter. However, as for the issue that has arisen, the reason it is relevant is that it is not simply about an absence of...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: It certainly is appropriate for me to ask the Leader to write to the Ceann Comhairle, who I believe has a certain responsibility for both Houses in the context of the work of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission and so on. While I am open to correction by the Cathaoirleach in this regard, what is relevant to the other House in this matter is also relevant here. I speak as someone who is...