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Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I appreciate the Minister of State's efforts but she has not responded to my specific question. She says she is not seeking for the patron to seek to the dissolution of the board where they fail to comply. That is not my question. Given that she is putting a legal obligation on the patron to ensure something which the board may not comply with and which may, in turn, trigger a section 37A...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with Senator Carrigy's sentiments. The origin of this debate lies in the unacceptable situation of a lack of school places for nearly 100 children in September, but there is a process that has to happen for everything. If I ring a board of management and tell it that it should provide a special needs class, it will ask me who I am, whether I know a class is needed, whether the...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: This legislation would amend section 37A of the 1998 Act, as amended.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: He will find something.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It is not bad for a part-timer.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: A couple of years ago, there was talk of bringing the Seanad on tour but there is really no need because it lands in every town and village in Ireland sooner or later. I acknowledge what Senator Chambers said about the issue of women's health and Fianna Fáil's proposals in that area. I commend Fianna Fáil on its focus on that area. I might say a bit more about that tomorrow....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: She only said some decent people I noticed.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: He is a hell of a man for one man.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Hopefully, it will not be a good day on Sunday week.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That was the Leader's ascension.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Well said.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Not on Report Stage.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Would the Senator take a question?

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Is there a specific section into which the Senator proposes to insert that?

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I have not spoken to my amendment No. 22. I do not know if the rules preclude me from doing so.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It might have been academic as to whether I had been precluded because the Minister has responded, at least in part, to a similar amendment Senator Higgins tabled. I am referring to the issue of academic freedom. Senator Higgins's similar amendment to section 8 refers to the specific issue of the academic freedom of students. I take on board what the Minister said about existing...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. The fear is that if there is a failure to ensure adequate resources are made available to schools opening special classes, and if there are not proper supports, including supports from the HSE such as occupational therapy and speech and language supports, as well as psychological supports from the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, the...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister to the House. Much of the criticism of the Government that followed this decision from the European court was around the issue that the Government seemed to have sat for a very long time on an uncomfortable reality that there had been a decision as far back as 2014 against the country in the context of the Digital Rights Ireland case. When the decision in the Graham...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I echo what Senator Buttimer just said about the pre-budget briefing of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland entitled Dementia Can't Wait. I have personal reason to be very grateful for the good work that organisation does. One of the points that came across clearly today was that the work of caring, be that within families or paid care, must be valued. People must be paid a proper wage....

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Somewhere in the west I imagine.