Results 101-120 of 7,648 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Can we come back after the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I would agree with a bit of what the Chathaoirleach Gníomhach is saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I will offer a quick word in defence of parents. The people who put their names to this very reasonable letter - Sandra Adams, Julie Anne Collins, Mennatallah Hassan and Niamh Rushe - deserve great credit for putting together a reasoned letter in which they point to particular things that need to be addressed. Sometimes when you are watching a hurling match, the referee gives a free, places...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Was there a mistake in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: It is the "how" that people are worried about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Does the council consult on the toolkit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I will begin where Senator Flynn left off in the context of nutrition. In recent years, the World Health Organization has emphasised that the first three years of life, from conception to the age of three, is the critical time. Is there more that can or needs to be done in respect of nutrition? We cannot really separate what is taught from the context in which people learn. The question...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I just said that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach did not let me finish my sentence. I am asking about the efforts being made by the Department and the NCCA to ensure that gender ideology is not part of the early years curriculum. This all speaks to the question of the trust parents place in the State and how it seeks to treat children when they are in any way entrusted to third parties. I stress how...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am sorry; I am giving Dr. Sullivan a chance, on the record-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Yes but something has been brought to my attention and I want to make it clear and give everybody a fair chance here today. On that issue of sexual identity not being included in the equal status legislation, were definitions sought? Why did the NCCA persist with putting sexual identity in? Why did Dr. Sullivan tell us here today that sexual identity was rooted in the Equal Status Act if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am referring to the ongoing correspondence Dr. Sullivan had with the four people I named earlier on. Is he saying that his contact with them post-dated the setting in stone of this document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: That is the question answered. I thank Dr. Sullivan for answering but the issue of whether a mistake was made then arises because he gave the content of the Equal Status Act as the reason.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. Sullivan told us it drew on the Act. It is not in the Equal Status Act. Why is something completely different in here? Why is he referring to the Equal Status Act?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: It is a matter of public interest that has come to my notice in the last few minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: We do not get that many chances so I would be grateful if Dr. Sullivan could be given the opportunity to answer on the record. It is a serious issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: What possible relevance has a reference to sexual orientation in the Equal Status Act to the rationale Dr. Sullivan gave me here today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Yes, but no censorship, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhach. I have been following the discussion and am delighted to hear the emphasis on the outdoors. I have one question. Is it fake news or is it true that at one point there was an NCCA committee that had all women and no man on it in the context of curriculum development?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Is that fake news or did it occur? How would that sit with equity obligations and commitments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Would you regard that as unfortunate?