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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Has RTÉ measured the group? Does Mr. Bakhurst have any idea how large it is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, for people who cannot get out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I could give chapter and verse on this all day.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: We need 6,000 GPs in this country to provide adequate primary care services to people. We only have approximately 4,500. The country has a shortfall of 1,500 GPs. Meanwhile, 30% of newly qualified GPs are emigrating, seeking better working conditions and opportunities. This haemorrhaging of doctors and nurses to the US, UK, Canada and Australia is a crisis. The Irish College of General...

Seanad: Public Health (Restriction on Sale of Stimulant Drinks to Children) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. I commend my colleague Senator Keogan on bringing forward this important Bill. I thank Senators Wilson, O'Reilly and others for supporting it. I am often struck when I am doing the family shopping of what a long way we still have to go in this country in getting people the information they need about the products they are purchasing. It may have to do with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I am an Independent Senator for the National University of Ireland. It is my first time on this committee and I am very glad to be on it and working with members. Areas of particular interest to me that might be connected with this committee in recent years include remuneration issues. With regard to RTÉ, I brought forward Private Members' legislation looking at the issue of keeping...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: This day last week the name Robert Francis Prevost would have been known to very few people in this House or elsewhere. A week on, he is arguably the most famous person in the world as Pope Leo XIV. He has certainly relegated you-know-who to the position of only being the second most intriguing and interesting person in the world and that is probably no bad thing in most people's view....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: In the context of congratulating our young friends from Birr a few minutes ago, I had a conversation with them, which turned to the topic of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, in which many of us have a great interest. We have our own very fine walking routes in Ireland, such as the increasingly popular St. Declan's Way between counties Tipperary and Waterford. There is also the famous...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: It is about nine years since we presented in this House the Human Dignity Award to Gina Herrity, an heroic woman who has been working in Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in Haiti since 1993. She has suffered violence in that chaotic country. She wrote to me last week and what she had to say was terrifying. She is asking people to give attention to what is happening in Haiti. She...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: First, I commend our leaders - President Higgins and Mrs. Higgins and our Taoiseach and Tánaiste - on representing our country so well at Pope Francis's funeral. Everybody will agree this was a deeply fascinating pontificate and the late Pope Francis was a voice of conscience on many issues. He made us all, whatever our views, sit up and think on many important issues of the day. Ar...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: The Department of the Taoiseach. It did it before anyway.

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome his officials. This is an area in which I have a developing interest because I am involved in helping a loved one with a forestry application. In that regard, I thank people for the support I have got. In making inquiries, I was very grateful for the assistance received from the Department. I acknowledge Mr. Delaney in this regard...

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: She is only warming up.

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Burning it up.

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Give a bit of injury time.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Mar 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I have a few matters I would like to raise with the Leader. He will be very familiar with the place I refer to first. Just seven miles from Galway city, a friend of mine from Corcullen contacted me to ask me to highlight that they have had no broadband service since the storm two months ago.I had to read the message twice to see if this could be true. Many places in the country were not...

Seanad: International Women's Day - Women's Health: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I will strip it down. I welcome the Minister. I have no doubt of her ability and wish her the very best in the brief. I also thank Senator Stephenson for introducing me to the concept of medical gaslighting. There are several women in my life who like to accuse me from time to time of merely having man flu and I now have the perfect repose. More seriously, I have three points. We...

Seanad: International Women's Day - Women's Health: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I asked about a review of telemedicine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Following on from what my colleague, Senator McCarthy, said a moment ago, it strikes me that there are so many things coming down the tracks at us from the new Administration in America that it is difficult to know what is going to lead to disaster and what might have a grain of positivity. One thing I am fascinated by, and I think many people in Ireland would be fascinated by, is the idea...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I will conclude by saying that we have a system which lacks transparency and allows financial mismanagement to go unchecked. Sometimes, if you are promised information, it never comes.