Results 121-140 of 7,581 for speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Votáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thought that was Skellig Michael.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I also extend my sympathies to the Minister, Deputy Burke, on the passing of his dear mother. I ask that the Minister for Education comes to the House for a debate about the social, personal and health education, SPHE, syllabus and how it interacts with schools' child protection obligations and our obligations under the law. We did some child protection very well in this country about a...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: We could have the human dignity alliance, we could have Aontú, there are lots of good people and good parties around. Having said that, the university constituencies provide the ground that is there to be hurled and I am very happy to have been enabled by the voters four times now, and I hope there will be a fifth, to hurl that ground, for all the flaws in the system. I would ask the...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I welcome this reforming legislation but I am reminded, as I have so often been, of a story. There are different versions of it but it is about the old man in Connemara. Some tourists stop the car and ask for directions to Dublin. After scratching his head, he says: "To be honest with you, I would not start from here at all." Frankly, when I look at this...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: How altruistic of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Fáilte romhat, a Aire. I would like to discuss academic freedom and the Athena Swan charter with the Minister but first I want to ask about the core funding commitment. The Minister's predecessor said after the Cassells report and the Funding the Future document that the issue of higher education funding in the future was settled. He was referring to the set figure of €307...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I know the Government is doing lots of good things and I do not want to be rude-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: -----but the Government is failing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: -----in that it was to be €307 million from the start. Does the Minister accept that there will be over €1 billion-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: -----of a shortfall when you add up all the fallback of the successive years? Does the Minister agree that the supplementary budget needs to have a €90 million allocation in order to cover existing pay increase obligations for the years up to now, if that shortfall is not to eat into the benefits of what is being given this time around?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Is it maybe a case of a lot done, more to do? Would the Minister settle for that?