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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.

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

Rónán Mullen: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b), I propose a vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 2 be amended by the deletion of all words after "12.45 p.m." and the substitution of the following: "and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, adjourn after two hours". The reason I am proposing this will be obvious to all. It was interesting to hear Senator O'Loughlin welcoming people to the Visitors Gallery,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am talking about Bills as important as the Electoral Reform Bill, to which I have one amendment and my colleagues, including the university Senators, have amendments, and the very important Higher Education Authority Bill, about which the university Senators have major concerns which are reflected in amendments we have proposed, amendments which will probably not get heard because the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Yes.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would love to know what is 400 years old that we think should not be changed. Does the Senator mean the statute for fraud or something?

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: There is also a reason to prevent overreach.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: We might as well talk about amendments, for the benefit of the House, because we do not all have good memories.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will speak to amendment No. 317, for which I am responsible, and make a few points with regard to what has already been said. I remember when I was in student politics in Galway. I was elected president of the students' union there in 1991. It was for the Minister of the day to officially approve my appointment to the governing body of UCG, as it was. I remember these things took time....

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I apologise.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: With the grouping. It caused me to do a lot of hurried scribbling a few minutes ago.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Amendment No. 317 is not being discussed yet?

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Which brings me to my last point-----

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: How can we believe the Minister when, last week, no one was left in any doubt that he fully supported thorough scrutiny of the many amendments that have been carefully prepared on foot of consultation and contact between Members and legitimate stakeholders? According to his explanation today, he is allowing a process to go ahead without protest that will see the Bill guillotined after a few,...