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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: All I am saying is that many people are watching.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: That is understood. I draw attention to some happier news and welcome the announcement that my home village of Ahascragh is to get a €3 million wastewater upgrade project. This is needed to end the discharge of inadequately treated wastewater into the Bunowen river. It is hard to imagine, but this will stop the equivalent of more than 300 wheelie bins of inadequately treated...

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

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I notice the Minister does not have any officials with him, which is probably a testament to his mastery of his brief. I intend to try to test the latter a little. I have taken a disjunctive view of today's statements. It was proposed that we would have statements on agriculture and climate. They have a united meaning, but they also have a separate...

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

Rónán Mullen: I certainly will not be mentioning any more names. It is within the agriculture brief and I explained that at the start.

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

Rónán Mullen: I took a view that today's title was disjunctive rather than conjunctive. Is that the right way of putting it?

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

Rónán Mullen: Anyway, we need to protect and preserve what is a vital sector within Ireland, both in terms of elite sporting achievement but also in terms of the number of jobs involved. We need to ensure that the great many people who love horse racing, including in my own family I might add, can continue to enjoy and contribute to a sport which is run to the best possible standards of fairness and...

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

Rónán Mullen: Deliberately so.

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes.

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes. The purpose of this Chamber is to allow people to come in on areas of expertise and interest to go for it and seek accountability.

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

Rónán Mullen: It is highly relevant because it is within the Minister's brief.

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

Rónán Mullen: It is climate and agriculture. It does not have to be confined to both.

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

Rónán Mullen: I do not think anybody can object to the fact that I am raising serious and important points. I am not making any allegations.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am taking this opportunity to ask the Minister to address something that to my knowledge he has not addressed in the Seanad so far.

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

Rónán Mullen: I was not faulting-----

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

Rónán Mullen: Precisely. I am taking this opportunity to inform him and see what he wishes to say in response to the concerns I have raised and the questions I am asking. These issues are too important not to take every opportunity to bring them up. The shocking mistreatment of retired horses, which was exposed in a BBC "Panorama" report, was also discussed during the hearings of that Oireachtas...

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

Rónán Mullen: I would encourage the Senator to go broad here. It is the only chance she will get.

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.