Results 1,501-1,520 of 7,581 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I am very close to concluding.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: It is as difficult for me to listen to things that I know and believe are harmful for our society and which, in some cases, I believe to be untrue, as it is for others to hear my carefully reflected upon and honestly held views about what I think is going on here. I ask colleagues to respect the fact that as far as they know, I speak for at least one third of those who voted in 2018. There...
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: My point is that is why we need somebody-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: That is why-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I have listened to all the contributions and considerable latitude has been given. My points are-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: As an Leas-Chathaoirleach knows, I would be finished by now if I had not been heckled. The attempt, of course, is to prevent the point being made. My point is that an independent person is not just somebody, as Senator Clifford-Lee stated, who-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I did not get to make the point.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: Please, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. I want 30 seconds.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: It is relevant because it is about-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: It is relevant because it is about-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: It would be very respectful if people would just let each other finish.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: It has never been claimed that the only meaning of independent is independent of Government. It is obvious to any reasonable person looking in that in order-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, if you-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: Can I just make a point?
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I am about to finish. If the Leas-Chathaoirleach stops me from making my point, allows the heckler to make her point and prevents me from responding, that cannot be correct parliamentary practice.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: Let me just answer the point then.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: Please, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. You know what is going on here.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: Let us be fair.
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I am not going to go on until-----
- Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)
Rónán Mullen: I did not call anybody a liar, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach knows.