Results 7,481-7,500 of 7,583 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: We might bring Daniel Ortega in to testify.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: It could be a love bite.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I do not know if my dissent can be recorded. I do not wish to put the issue to a vote as I support the principle of reducing maternal mortality and other laudable aims. I cannot support UNFPA. I do not know if the dissent can be recorded.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The idea of the Irish Government spending money for these declared purposes is laudable. The millennium development goals commit us to reducing maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015. Any money we spend seeking to prevent female genital mutilation and maternal mortality and on the campaign to end fistula is money well spent. I commend...
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Senator Norris will have his chance in a short time. He declared in 2002, on the basis of a state department investigation, that the US was suspending its funding of the UNFPA because of its involvement in the Chinese one-child policy. He specifically referred to the UNFPA's assistance in administering the "social compensation fees" which the Chinese Government impose on women who have more...
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and wish him well in his duties. I ask him to look again at those with whom he is co-operating in the pursuit of what are undeniably laudable aims but some Irish money may end up enforcing consequences that are very much less than laudable.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I am regarded as a devil's advocate most of the time.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I would receive an ovation from all the political parties if I were a different gender.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: There are unborn women as well.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: No matter how egregious.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: I do not disagree with that.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Is the Senator sure?
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: We are all non-partisan.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: No, it is not. It is a question of how it uses its budget.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: That is the good side.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: The Senator is misrepresenting my position, which is not surprising.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: The Senator should examine what is happening in China.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Senator White keeps misrepresenting me.
- Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)
Rónán Mullen: Because the Senator keeps referring to me in the wrong.