Results 1,001-1,020 of 7,648 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Does that suggest any greater recourse among those who cannot afford private health insurance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: What about the rise to almost half of those availing of assisted suicide reporting concern about feeling a burden? It is a significant rise over time. What is that telling us about the way those with terminal illness feel about themselves and how that has changed in the light of the assisted suicide regime?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I have a well-founded hope that this is the last session we will have where a guest is denigrated on grounds of style by one of the members and a fellow witness. We should allow people to have whatever style they have as long as they are backing up their statements with facts. I do not mind how trenchant they are as long as they are speaking in a bona fide manner. The last place we should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I will clarify my question because I did not express it properly. The rise to 46% in 2022 was in the number of people qualifying on grounds of terminal illness for whom feeling like a burden was a factor. Behind the apparent limiting of grounds, there is still perhaps a change occurring in society and in how we see people who qualify under those grounds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Jeanne have any sense as to why the number of people who qualify in Oregon and feel like they are a burden has increased to 46%? What does this tell him about shifts in attitude or vulnerability among people who qualify? If I am not mistaken, there are quite a few cases where people have actually outlived the six-month predicted period. We do not know exactly how many of those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Jeanne for the clarification on palliative care. I apologise for my mistake, but I understood that only 1%, or some other very low percentage, of cases involved psychiatry. I would have thought that, if people were serious about preventing suicide, the role of psychiatry would have been more central. I am also surprised that Dr. Jeanne does not see it as a problem that as many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: But it is a rise from 30%, is it not? There is something happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I did not insult anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Yet again you have failed to produce evidence of any precise nature-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: -----except to express a feeling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I said nothing to denigrate anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: People talk in different ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: He was addressing me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Out of courtesy to the witnesses, when something is personalised-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Jeanne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I did not attack anyone’s style or the like.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Not at all. I would also like to welcome the guests and to wish everybody here the best for the forthcoming term. I was struck by an observation by Professor Orla Feely, during her inaugural lecture as president of University College Dublin, UCD, on Monday evening. She pointed out that the ratio of students to staff in Irish universities is, as she put it: "much, much worse" than it was...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Knock yourself out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I know this is a difficult topic but if Professor Boer could give me an answer to my questions in two or three sentences given the limited time, I would be grateful. The first thing that struck me was that looking at the number of deaths taking place in the Netherlands, which is 5.2%, if you were to compare that with the Irish population and if we had the Dutch system, that might put us at...