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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: So it is not a legal right. It is something we do not prosecute but I do not think any of us would want the message going out from us as members to suggest that it is a right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I do not believe that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I do not believe the word "right" has ever been used regarding suicide in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: We might return to that at another time because we did go through this with our legal and constitutional people as well. If there is that reality that vulnerable other people will end up feeling pressurised into taking their lives be it as a direct result of an unsympathetic family or an unsympathetic State in the future that does not want to fund advanced healthcare necessities or as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: That is the core question. Is it about more than individual choice if other people are affected because we will not get the perfect society and the perfect well-funded and compassionate healthcare system? Not a day goes by in here where the inadequacies of the healthcare system are exposed. It is not just an Irish problem and that will continue so in that context, the question is whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: If Mr. Curran was told that given the inadequacies of our healthcare system, a change in the law in this area would have the effect of funnelling more people towards that aspiration to have their lives ended, would it trouble him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: It is our job to figure out those what-ifs.

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...