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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (5 Jun 2014)

Michael Mullins: Before we finish, I would like to welcome our special visitors to the Gallery.

Seanad: Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (5 Jun 2014)

Michael Mullins: I pay tribute to the Senators who put down the amendments. The process has given us greater insight into the workings of the friendly societies. Important amendments have been introduced in the area of industrial and providential societies aimed at making the regulatory burden on co-operative societies easier and making examinership, which is currently unavailable to co-operative societies,...

Seanad: Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (5 Jun 2014)

Michael Mullins: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday, 10 June 2014.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Michael Mullins: In recent days, the European Commission published country-specific recommendations for each member state's national reform and stability programme. It would be appropriate given that we have recently existed the bailout and will soon be into budget preparation, for the House to discuss the recommendations which have been made. They include implementation of current budgets, correcting the...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Michael Mullins: I support my colleague Senator Naughton in her call for a statement from the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the bodies of babies found in Tuam and other locations. There is great human suffering and misery to be addressed and I urge the Minister not to rush the statement. The information has been made available to her quite recently so we need a comprehensive statement...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Housing for People with Disabilities (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, to the House. Before I call Senator Moran, I would like to remind her that persons outside the House should not be referred to by name or in such a way as to make them identifiable.

Seanad: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: No, there is no opportunity once the Minister has made his reply.

Seanad: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I must put the question.

Seanad: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I very much regret the fact that Fianna Fáil Members and other Opposition spokespersons are continuing to scaremonger with regard to maternity services and the national review that is taking place.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: The Minister could not have been clearer in the contribution he made to the House. I very much welcome the fact that yesterday he confirmed, beyond doubt, that there was no threat to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: -----the maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital and that the services there would grow, be enhanced and further funded. I also welcome the announcement yesterday of a framework agreement between the Minister for Health and the IMO which sets out a process for engagement concerning the GMS GP contract and other publicly-funded contracts involving GPs. The framework agreement sets out a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria (28 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the ambassador and our distinguished visitors, particularly the students from Finglas, whom I compliment on making contact with the committee and encouraging us to keep this issue at the top of our agenda. One can only imagine the awful situation experienced by the parents and siblings of the young girls who are missing and the urgent need to address the problem. Other speakers...

Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for his speech to which I listened intently in my office in the past few minutes. I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing forward this motion so that all the lies, untruths and misinformation that they and others have been spreading can be challenged and refuted. The Minister has done a pretty good job in that regard here today. They have, by...

Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: He got elected but his colleague from the town did not, which is interesting. However, it is extraordinary that in the middle of the election campaign, the HSE would have decided to make a presentation to the employees of Portiuncula Hospital presenting a so-called confidential report, knowing full well that it would be used for political purposes and any sort of opportunity would have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I strongly support the call by Senator Michael D'Arcy. This is a very serious issue. I heard a detailed discussion on the drug in question on the radio recently and I heard stories of patients who had benefited significantly from it. We must tease out the issue with the Minister. I join colleagues in congratulating everybody who was successful in the recent local and European elections....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I join colleagues in congratulating all those who put their on the ballot paper over the weekend and to commiserate with very many fine councillors who have lost their seats. I pay tribute to the outstanding work they have done in their communities. I hope that many of them will return to public life. I congratulate our four colleagues in the Seanad who contested the European elections,...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I hope what Senator Paschal Mooney has outlined is a rumour. We all know the tremendous work being done by the various schemes in rural Ireland. I am confident that it is the Government's intention to continue those schemes, even if revamped. I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on our return, on the innovative Government strategy, Construction 2020, launched yesterday. It is a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Early Child Care Education (14 May 2014)

Michael Mullins: I thank Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh for sharing his time and welcome the Minister. I visited Ballinasloe Therapeutic Learning Centre last Friday when I saw for myself the fantastic work being done in it. The organisation was established in 1983 and has been funded by the HSE but will now be funded by Tusla. It is a partnership project between Ballinasloe Social Services, a...