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Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Rónán Mullen: It worked for President Obama.

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I speak as someone who entered the Oireachtas at a time when considerable reforms had already been introduced in regard to pensions payable to former Members on leaving office. I never knew about nor inquired into the pension entitlements that would accrue to me in the event that I ceased to be a Senator. I will receive some sort of pension at the normal retirement age rather than any...

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Rónán Mullen: -----in which politics can receive its proper due and people can learn to differentiate between politicians who are on the take and politicians who are genuinely selfless and seek to contribute to the common good. If we are to debate ministerial salaries, we should have a much more honest debate about anyone who is in receipt of a public sector pension and in a position to earn in other ways...

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Rónán Mullen: -----that will be seen to be fair, commonly taken and suffered by all.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I dtosach báire, tacaím leis an méid atá ráite ag an Seanadóir Walsh chomh fada is a mbaineann sé leis na binsí fiosrúcháin. In the light of both what Senator Walsh has said and the decision of the Supreme Court, it would be timely for us to have a general reflection in this Chamber on how the tribunals of inquiry and commissions of inquiry have operated. We all have felt a great...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: It is simply this. Yesterday the Labour Party brought forward an excellent Bill in this Chamber to criminalise female genital mutilation. It deserves great credit for bringing forward this issue because it is about a terrible violation of human dignity that all should condemn.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome very much the fact the Government undertook to bring forward its own legislation. Would it not be nice if our political system could mature to the point where if one had excellent legislation coming forward from Private Members'-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: -----instead of stating the Government will come back with something of its own in due course that there were other possibilities, for example, adjourning the Second Stage debate to give the Government a chance to address it properly? Then the Government could undertake, if it liked the Bill, that it would make further time available for the continuation of Second Stage and that the Bill...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: In other countries private members' legislation has been brought forward. It is very successful.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: It reinforces public confidence in the democratic system-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: -----and in the functioning of the Legislature.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I ask the Leader to take that point on board.

Seanad: Death of President of Poland: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I am glad to add my words to the other speakers. There is no right or left today. There is no separation, no difference. We are together in our condolences to the families of those who have died. Those were the words of the speaker of the Lower House in Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, in the wake of the terrible tragedy that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 94 others. It is right and...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: Ba bhreá liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire Stáit. Is deas an rud é mo chomharsa béal dorais, nach mór, a fheiscint sa Teach seo chomh minic agus is féidir. I wholeheartedly welcome the introduction of the Bill by the Labour Party and congratulate its Senators for bringing it forward. I also welcome the Government's decision to move with dispatch and give a very appropriate and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I am glad the Leader welcomed the Press Ombudsman and former Senator, Mr. John Horgan, to the Visitors Gallery. I wish him and the Press Council well in their work. I remind the Leader that I have asked on numerous occasions for a debate on standards in the media. Senator Walsh raised pertinent issues in this regard. Why is the motion concerning the council's formal recognition being...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I understand that, but it leads to another request I have to make of the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: The quality of debates in this Chamber will be determined by how often they are organised to address relevant matters. I know the Leader has a duty to the Government parties to organise debates when the Government has something it wants to say. However, he also has a duty to represent our desire to have certain issues surface from time to time. That is why I support Senator Fitzgerald's...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: I ask him sincerely for an urgent debate in the diary on the media, media standards and the way we remunerate journalists. The debate on banking should take place at the earliest opportunity to allow us examine and critique the unethical way in which many bankers have acted and continue to act.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Rónán Mullen: When is the debate?