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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: The no decrease would require some analysis because the claim is made that when you introduce assisted suicide, you take some people out of the violent suicide cohort and you put them into the controlled situation. There is clearly more going on that we have to think about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Is there time to ask Dr. Dalton a quick question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Dr. Dalton has made a number of instructive comments as to the need to look not only at capacity in a blunt way, but also at the surrounding social circumstances that might enable or inhibit capacity. One of those is the very inadequate healthcare environment we have in this country, particularly with regard to mental health, which, to be frank, looks set to continue for no short time. Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: If we are honest about it, we will continue to have inadequate services, particularly with regard to mental health but also the other things Dr. Dalton has described as being part of a person being able to have capacity in some truly objective way. We are now talking about a very radical and final decision, the decision to end one's life, and this is predicated on the idea that a person can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps I should have distinguished more clearly between capacity and autonomy. To some degree, I am suggesting that what goes for capacity also goes for autonomy as regards the availability of services to truly support real independence.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Did we have a revolutionary poet?

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Not a revolutionary puppet.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: It is mere doggerel.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I also welcome our distinguished guests on both sides, including our Czech guests, who will be aware that the infant child of Prague played an important role in the success of many an Irish wedding by being left outside on the eve of the wedding in the hope of getting good weather for the photographs the following day, although I know of one unhappy Irish mother who in her pique at the bad...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Well said.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: To clarify, we are taking amendments Nos. 5, 6 and 8 to 12, inclusive.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Am I in a position to move amendments at this point?

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: In other words, I can speak to amendments Nos. 7, 8 and 10 at this point.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Am I in a position to move amendments at this point?

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: That is fine. I was not here to move amendment No. 1, nor would I have been able to move it. With regard to these matters, including the use of bodycams, the point is that all types of recording devices or systems used by An Garda Síochána should, at the very least, be specified in a relevant code of practice. Ideally, there should be a list of all approved devices but, in the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I can speak to them and, hopefully, we will get white smoke before it comes to the question of moving them. The amendments, such as amendment No. 8, would not allow searches of retained ANPR data to be carried out in respect of protests without the requirement of reasonable grounds to believe there is a significant threat to public safety or order. To allow otherwise could have a chilling...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Forgive me if she has addressed this already but I ask the Minister if it is the case that the legislation will require, or is it her intention, that all types of recording devices or systems to be used by An Garda Síochána will be ones that are specified in the code of practice to which she referred.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, to delete lines 14 to 17 and substitute the following: "(b) safeguarding against, and the prevention of, threats to public security, including securing public safety and public order, where there are reasonable grounds to believe there is a significant threat; (c) the protection of the security of the State.".

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "(g) has received sufficient training to make them suitably qualified to use the relevant device, and after receiving sufficient data protection training so as to render them proficient in operating the device in accordance with legislation regulating the use of data, and (h) after a pilot scheme in...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 12: In page 11, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: "(c) is worn in a location and manner that maximises the camera's ability to capture video footage of the Garda member’s activities.".