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Seanad: Climate and Agriculture: Statements (25 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The joys of the Seanad. We can all -----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the comments made by Senator Dolan. I wish to say that I disagree with hit-and-run heckling. I refer to the idea of a Member getting up and making a loud noise to disrupt a speaker without even giving that person the courtesy of a full hearing as he or she walks out of the Chamber. I do not think that is any way to behave. Today, I call on the Minister for Health to honour a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: This matter is somewhere along the spectrum between sloppiness and sneakiness. I would like to find out where exactly it is.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I have never seen that.

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Of course, we will have to return to some of these issues at another time. All I would like to say for now is that I commend all that is good in this Bill but I deprecate all that is sad. I hear my colleague, Senator Higgins, referencing new life and in a background here is a new legal architecture in the State that is about ending new life. I am very open. Where anybody needs care, after...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Nobody mentioned religion except the Senator.

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It is the Senator's obsession, not mine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Well put.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I offer a word of thanks to all the people who, in towns big and small, in churches and in sports clubs, in buildings and in the open air, came out in recent days to express their outrage and their pain at the terrible event that occurred in Tullamore. It was very moving to see people's response. I hope we can continue to hold the Murphy family in our hearts in the coming days. It is often...

Seanad: The Impact of Covid-19 on Primary and Secondary Education: Motion (19 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh Chathaoirleach an choiste, an Teachta Kehoe. As a member of the education committee, I am very glad that this report is before the House. As we see talk of the removal of restrictions in the coming months I hope that we take the opportunity to look back on all aspects of how the pandemic was handled, particularly the impact of Covid-19 on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (16 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. He may very well know that the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 ensures animals are given pain relief before procedures are carried out that could cause them pain and distress. There are two issues to note about that. The first is it is a matter of legislation, not of being left to medical experts, and the second is that yesterday, during the debate on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (16 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am sorry, I did not mean to mislead the Minister of State. To clarify, the Minister for Health only gave me a commitment that he would engage with me and others.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (16 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am sorry about that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (16 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: "Thoroughly and officially”, but no mention of independence. In everything said by the Minister of State, there was not a single concession to the idea I referred to. It was all about consulting first with service providers and those who avail of the service. No mention was made of medical people who have a conscientious objection or of scientific and other experts who have concerns...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Reviews (16 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: By the way, it was not mandated by the people. It was permitted by the people.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We are approaching the season of peace and goodwill. "Pax" is the Latin word for peace. All I want for Christmas is a packet of Paxlovid. I know that Senators Warfield and Keogan are good people and people of goodwill, and I believe much more unites than divides them. However, this is what I would like to see. Criticisms may perhaps be made regarding what is sometimes now put across in our...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Human rights for slow learners.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: As have I.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Yesterday I raised my concerns about the apparent lack of interest on the part of the Government and the Minister for Health in having a genuinely independent chair of the committee that is to review the operation of the abortion legislation. Senator Pauline O'Reilly, who I greatly esteem and respect, reminded me the people had spoken in the referendum. As I said, they did indeed but they...