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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Seconded.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Seconded.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 33: In page 44, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "Amendment to Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 45.The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 is amended— (a) in section 5(1), by the insertion of the following paragraph: "(a) the site has, under its present ownership, been the subject of a grant of permission by the planning...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: As the son of a recently deceased builder, I feel the need to speak up for builders from time to time although I recall that it is not just in this House that there can be suspicion about builders. In "The Naked Gun", Jane asks a guy called Vincent Ludwig how he could have done something so vicious. Ludwig says: "It was easy, my dear. You forget I spent two years as a building contractor."...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Nobody could have any objection to his taking this matter into wider consideration in the context of looking more comprehensively at the vacant site levy how it is working or perhaps not working. That said, tempus fugitand people are waiting. My concern is that when things are being looked at, it can take a long time to look at them. People...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Having listened to the contribution made by Senator Eugene Murphy, with which I agree, and the response made by the Minister of State, I was reminded of a line that may have been incorrectly attributed to the late Dr. Garret FitzGerald. He was reputed to have objected, on one occasion, to a policy measure on the basis that while it was all very well in practice that it would not work in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Nobody ever said PIAB was a court. I accept that the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, is just a messenger for another Minister of State but, on a previous occasion, when Deputy Michael McGrath asked a parliamentary question on the same matter, the then Minister, Deputy Humphreys, at least stated baldly there were no penalties involved where...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: No, we would not.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: No, it would not. If there are lies-----

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

Rónán Mullen: I am doing something unusual this morning; I am opposing the Order of Business. I do so because I object to the Government's disgusting habit of constantly proposing, and implementing, the guillotining of legislation in this House. It happened again on Committee Stage of the Affordable Housing Bill on Friday, 4 June. Many amendments were not discussed, including one of mine. We have been...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I, too, compliment former Senator, Pádraig Ó Céidigh, on the excellent initiative he brought to the House in this legislation, which puts on a statutory footing what was already an offence under common law. This body of work is a credit to him. It is good that the Government accepted it and that amendments were made in the Dáil on Committee Stage. Indeed, at the time...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Very good. I will conclude on this but I want to make the point clearly-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I will. I will just finish the point clearly because the Minister of State is present. I have given him the example of another non-quasi-judicial body, namely, the HSE, and in the context of the nursing home support scheme-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There are stringent provisions against making false or misleading statements to the HSE, with a penalty of up to three months in prison and a fine of €5,000 for knowingly or recklessly giving false or misleading information in an application under the scheme. The point I am making is that the Government has to stop coming into the House and giving cooked-up and on-the-hoof replies to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: It is not extraneous to this extent------

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We are discussing legislation that makes it a criminal offence to give false and misleading information in court proceedings but we have a body that is set up to reduce insurance awards------