Results 901-920 of 7,581 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I am listening to Mr. Wall. The person to his right is not throwing out the word "suicide", and nor is anyone here. It is a real concern. In fact, something the committee has scrutinised and will scrutinise carefully is the question of what the impact would be if we legislate to give people we deeply sympathise with the choice to have their lives ended and whether it would change the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimhe an Aire Stáit. The Minister of State is very welcome. It is good to engage with her and I thank her for coming to the House. There is a fair degree of concern among many people with regard to the Government's capacity to consult the general public on matters of public importance and to take on board feedback, specifically. Consultation with advocacy NGOs...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Is the Minister of State asking me a question?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I will tell the Minister of State why. It was very difficult for people to get on that gender committee. I think my friend and colleague, Senator Keogan, was kept off the committee.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thought the Minister of State was asking me a question.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I make no apologies to my friend, the Minister of State, for choosing my own forum in which to ventilate the major problems with what the Government is doing by twisting gender and gender identity.It has the HSE pretending that men can have babies and breast-feed. It leads to the erasure of women as men with dysphoria lay claim to women's spaces. In our playschools and schools, the normal...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State just could not answer my argument; that is her problem.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Some women are horrified with the approach the Minister of State-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Congratulations on your good work.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: No argument.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister of State should be consistent, then, and not damage women's issues and interests-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the Cathaoirleach and welcome all of our guests and thank them for their contributions. What strikes me about the freshness of Dr. Yuill's contribution is that he is saying that very often the argument around euthanasia and assisted suicide is that at the root of the objection to it must be some kind of religious itch, whereas his presentation, perhaps would be quite challenging to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: If one considers the idea of "intention" in law, where one presumes to intend the natural and probable consequences of one's actions, it strikes me that from what Dr. McKeown O'Donovan is saying is that she wishes that there might be empirical evidence to show that attitudes do not change. We heard from Professor Theo Boer last week who spoke about the social pressure which seems to have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I give the example of older people being more likely not to value their lives or to feel they are a burden because the law allows them to legally have their lives ended. Is that a change of attitude Dr. McKeown O'Donovan would welcome in our society?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Where is the solidarity? If you make choice the supreme idea, how is the impact individuals' choices might have on other people's sense of worth, ability to cope with illness or sense of entitlement to State-funded healthcare considered? If all of those things are impacted negatively by somebody's individual choice, do you not have a social problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Is it Dr. McKeown O'Donovan's philosophical view that euthanasia or assisted suicide should be legalised only in cases of terminal illness? Is she philosophically opposed to euthanasia or assisted suicide on wider grounds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. McKeown O'Donovan would not support euthanasia or assisted suicide on grounds other than those of terminal illness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, we can do better. We have all been in a situation where we were not in a position but could forward details later. I think we can do better than attacking our witnesses simply because we do not like something of what they propose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Is there not a courteous way to ask for further and better particulars at a later date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I think that is the point.