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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh Ghníomhaigh. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and wish him well with this Bill and in the important work that he has before him. The Minister stated at the close of his speech that he would use every weapon in his arsenal. I might paraphrase and adjust that slightly by saying that the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Leader may recall that before Christmas I asked her - and she agreed - to organise a debate with the Minister for Health present about the working of the new abortion law in the light of the troubling research done by some UCC researchers on the provision of abortion in Ireland. That was published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As Members will be aware, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The Senator voted against them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to follow up on the tech companies with Mr. Arneill or whoever would like to respond. Are we sometimes too afraid to deprecate and to call it like it is with respect to the too early and too frequent access to technology? Is there a tendency, and the research shows it, that the potential for cyberbullying increases as children’s access to technology increases? Do we not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Of course it is too late if one takes the tech off the child as a response to him or her being bullied because that would be a disincentive to the child to tell about what might be happening. There were a number of references by colleagues on the role of faith-based education. There was a tendency to talk about it as though it were a problem whereas I have a different optic. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: We certainly need diversity, I suppose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Exactly, yes. The values are fundamentally about respecting people. Even if there is a difference of views about ethical issues it should always be possible, it seems to me, as part of the formation of students to say that we talk about these issues where different points of view were always heard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Is there room for one last question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I hope Mr. O'Connor is wrong, because if we do not have a hope until we get those ratios down to where he wants them to be, we are in a bleak situation. I believe Mr. Arneill mentioned that the poor level of peer intervention among Irish children and teens when they are witness to bullying has been found to be the most resistant to change and will require particular attention. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I laud the efforts but one cannot ignore the laws of nature either. Sometimes one has to work smarter not harder. It is a question of where one puts one's resources and energies without ignoring any element of the strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome all our speakers and thank them for their fascinating and important insights on these important issues. I was touched, in particular, by the roots of empathy programme and how it is working and I was also interested to hear in some cases it involves a mum or a dad and, in some cases, both. That prompts me to ask Ms Connolly if there any studies on the impact of father absence on...

Seanad: Carer's Allowance: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome and support the motion. I am sure that other Senators saw the RTÉ programme last night called "DIY SOS", which was about a beautiful family with two sons who have Pfeiffer Syndrome. This is an extremely rare genetic disorder. I was struck by a comment the couple made about their own relationship. They said that due to the stress...

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The majority of people in the Republic would like to see a united Ireland in their lifetime. Perhaps they feel less urgently about it compared to previous generations - I do not know, but that is my instinct - but they also have concerns about the wisdom of the recent headlong rush into calling for a border poll. That rush was sparked by the...

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I will if it is brief.

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I am suspicious of claims of privilege these days because there tends to be an underlying ideology that is exclusive of the search for truth on a range of issues.

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I took the Senator's point. When I heard the rhetoric of Ms Martina Anderson's statement last week talking about the struggle, her forced retirement and how throughout her life as a republican she had always put the struggle first, it made me realise how far we had to go because I wondered what struggle she was talking about. Do people here believe that kind of language will assist in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his kind words. I will start by thanking colleagues here for the very kind words of sympathy they expressed in this House last Friday after the death of my father. Our family appreciates that very much indeed. Thank you. Today I would like to say a little bit about the Government's proposed hate speech legislation, the criminal justice (hate crime) Bill 2021,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I would like to second that.

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate Examinations) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I echo some of what Senator O'Loughlin said in terms of welcoming the clarity that this Bill brings to the learnings from last year. We can all recall the various issues that arose last year at a very difficult time for people.Many people will have been somewhat discombobulated as they grew to learn more about the element of sausage making in the processing...