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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------

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

Rónán Mullen: ------and to save money, yet the Government is fatuously opposing or denying there is a need to amend the law to make it an offence to give false and misleading information to PIAB. It makes no difference that PIAB will only determine a matter where liability is not in issue. There can be situations involving conspiracy between the person making a claim and the putative defendant of that...

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

Rónán Mullen: -----concerned about the rights of private parties? That is a completely unacceptable state of affairs.

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 am raising the issue because it is relevant to the issue of giving false and misleading claims in the context of disputes that could end up before the courts, but in this case do not end up there. It seems to me that the public good is not being served------

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

Rónán Mullen: -----and I want to give the Minister of State another chance to consider the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the experts and witnesses. It is great to have them with us. I thank them for their insights and for sharing their expertise. There are many questions I could ask, but it would not be fair to expect that there would be research available that would answer everyone. Following on from what Deputy Ó Cathasaigh asked about where Ireland stands relative to other countries, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: If nobody else wants to respond, I might follow on by saying that I was fascinated by what we heard in the opening statements. Many people would have been unaware that there seems to be evidence in that regard. Practising Catholics are mentioned specifically. I am not surprised by that because I heard anecdotal reports about children who dared to go against the cultural grain in school on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: In a society where there is so much evidence on identity and where there is conflict around identity, specifically racial identity such as, for example, Black Lives Matter, BLM, and all of that activity going on, is there a case to be made that when we talk about bullying, if we focus too much on individual identity, we might end up privileging one category who deserve our support, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. O'Higgins Norman. Love your neighbour as yourself does not seem like such a bad starting point. If I have time, I wish to ask about cyberbullying. There had been a lot of talk about helping children to be resilient in terms of understanding what is happening to them when they are experiencing bulling. I am also concerned, however, about whether we are doing enough to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I meant helping them with the skills to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, it does. I thank all the witnesses.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. There is always a balance to be identified between an agenda to remove what are objectively obstacles to people's equal participation in society and the economy, which one must always support, and where this drifts into the area of social engineering, which I have an issue with, when we start to tell people and families how to live and arrange their lives, identifying...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: There are good choices and bad choices.