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Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I was raising the 1998 final for the benefit of Senator Wall.

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Will it be okay if I share time with Senator Victor Boyhan?

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. I was walking down Grafton Street the other day and saw a man staring at me. As I walked by him he looked at me and said, "Deputy Robert Troy?" and I said, "No, Senator Rónán Mullen". He looked crestfallen, almost as crestfallen as the Minister of State looks on hearing that story. I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister of State for bringing...

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: It is all in the hair dye. I better put paid to that rumour.

Seanad: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Bill is welcome. There has been a lot of talk about it for a long time, but it has been a long time coming. I understand that in 1998, the year Galway beat Kildare - there were probably ticket touts around then - Young Fine Gael proposed it. There have been many calls for and promises and proposals on this Bill. To paraphrase "Bleak House", the young person who was promised a new...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am not responsible for the ordering of business in the House and I have frequently criticised it.

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I will be grateful if I could have my usual time.

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I listened to some of the debate on the way in and I have to say I found myself strangely in agreement with some of the most hostile adversaries of the Catholic Church's role in medicine, even while being astounded at the disingenuousness of some of their arguments. I say this because it is quite clear the Sisters of Charity have abandoned any desire to be in a position to influence the...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: If taxpayers want those services and there are taxpayers in the country who would want those services-----

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: -----then why should they, as taxpayers, not have a State that pays for some of those services some of the time?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I also thank the Cathaoirleach for all he has been doing over the last year. While we are engaging in a bogus debate about the non-existent future influence of the Religious Sisters of Charity and procedures at a future national maternity hospital, the negligence, and the heartlessness of the existing secular medical establishment has been very much on show but received practically no...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Vótáil.

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Vótáil.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I support the progress of the Bill in solidarity with my Green Party colleagues because I believe it deserves more consideration on Committee Stage, but that is not to say that I do not have concerns about it. For example, surely there is a legitimate question over whether any substantial alterations to an existing structure should be exempted from planning permission. Why should any...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Does it grant absolution?

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. It is always nice to see him in this House. I want to say what I have been saying a number of times recently, in that I hope there will be no guillotining of this Bill on Committee Stage next week. It is a problem the guillotine is being overused, especially in this House. It is bringing our politics into disrepute. It is not consultative. It is not...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator might as well name names.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Official Engagements (22 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. On Sunday, 30 May, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, visited China for a bilateral meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. Wang Yi. It did not surprise me that the Minister, Deputy Coveney, did not exactly bang the tables or lay down the law with the Chinese about human rights, the Uyghurs and so forth. Given the nature of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Official Engagements (22 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I do not think anybody disputes the fact that, from time to time, Ireland raises concerns and even expresses great concerns, but it does not go beyond that. I spoke in this Chamber last week about the mounting evidence that our foreign policy lacks any moral core, because there is so much evidence of that recently. Days after returning from China, the Minister, Deputy Coveney, correctly...