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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: We could do with some nuanced thinking about the whole question of spoiling one's vote. To be clear, if one can make a clear choice between candidates and express a clear preference, it is entirely reasonable to express that. If on the other hand you are unhappy that you have been left with a bad choice and if your feeling of indignation is so strong that you choose, American style, to...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh an Aire. On the last occasion, I had just begun to speak when we had to report progress. I expressed my wonderment at how this section had got through the Dáil, considering how far-reaching it is in how it changes the situation with regard to the protection of people and their right to a...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: It would not make him unique.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I have some sympathy there and Senator Ruane has raised some very interesting points on the right to recover a reputation. It reminds me of that idea of the right to be forgotten as well. Some of us have been reflecting on that in recent days with the question of whether a person who had a conviction for firearms could be employed in the precincts of the Oireachtas. I remember thinking...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Can we have a definition of "jinks", please?

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I am afraid I will be one more voice contributing to the rumour of the Minister's fallibility on this. Senator McDowell offered an answer to a question I had in my mind when I read this section, this dramatic proposed change to the law, which was, "How did this section survive? How did it escape the scrutiny of the Dáil?" I felt the same about this section as I did about the ill-fated...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I report progress.

Seanad: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I was thinking of Percy French because the debate got off to a rather slow start. I was wondering whether we would get there before the night. As I was listening to the Minister of State the thought occurred to me that if the review recommendations were to be implemented, the rail network would increase from 2,300 km to 3,000 km, which would...

Seanad: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Cassady is a good Irish name. Come west.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: The one thing I do not understand is that the world and his mother, and anybody who knows and has worked in an organisation where it comes to a point where formal complaints are made, whether in relation to an historical or current thing, knows organisations in some way have to prepare for that kind of stuff and that there is therefore stuff going around. I really do not understand why the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I have heard of an abundance of caution but it seems to me the FAI is drowning in caution. We deal with an environment around here when, every now and again, the Government tells us it is acting on legal advice when it proposes to do or not do something, and we do not see what that legal advice is. The claim that legal advice prevents someone from doing something can really be the last...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I might need more than five minutes. I may come back in after the Chair with a supplementary question, if that is okay. I thank our guests for being with us. I am very concerned about the term "age assurance". As I have said previously, I worry that this is something that is less strict than age verification. Will the witnesses give me an idea of what exactly is meant by age assurance...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Does Coimisiún na Meán have the power to influence how platforms police it? If they take a laissez-faireapproach, is it all the same to Coimisiún na Meán? Is it left up to them to decide what their standards are?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Platforms are held to their own standards, not to those of Coimisiún na Meán.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Okay.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I am still not clear what doing their best means or why it is left to them to do their best. Where is the age assurance? What does that mean and how far do they have to go? What are they required to do to stop children from being able to access their stuff?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Rónán Mullen: What does Mr. Kenny mean by frictionless?