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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...

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

Rónán Mullen: It was a fix.

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

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

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

Rónán Mullen: Hear, hear.

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

Rónán Mullen: No party in the Taoiseach's office.

Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Most of these regulations are uncontroversial. It would be stroke of the pen stuff. What is being asked for is that where something serious is involved, such as a curtailment of civil liberties, the House would make a decision that it wanted to have a vote.

Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Whichever we decide.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The context of the matter I raise today is that Ireland pays more than €300 million per annum towards the cost of running the United Nations. Within that framework of the United Nations, special rapporteurs are regularly appointed and given a remit to examine and report on a specific human rights matter of broad concern worldwide or a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his response and, of course, I agree with much of what he has said about the need for such special rapporteurs to receive adequate funding and the importance of their role. I question whether they can be as independent as he says when it is a matter of public record, for example, that the Open Society Foundation donated $137,000 to Amnesty International to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I was a rapporteur for a report for a parliamentary assembly. It is a very different matter.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I do not have the same code of objectivity, independence, freedom etc. from all parties. I am a parliamentarian. It is a very different matter. We are political.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: An independent special rapporteur cannot be political in that way.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I was not concurrently funded by any private body. My only salary was my parliamentarian's salary.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: United Nations (8 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We are all entitled to our views but we are not entitled to conflicts of interest.