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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...legislation. The party of which the Minister is a member was not in government in time, as far as I can recall. That amendment was rejected. I am sorry, the Minister's party was in a confidence and supply arrangement. That is what we have as a result of having a law that does not seek in any way to encourage the protection of human life by offering positive alternatives as a matter of...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, line 19, after “practitioner” to insert the following: “(other than a general practitioner who has notified the Minister that the practitioner does not wish the premises at which he or she provides healthcare services to be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a relevant healthcare premises)”. This amendment refers...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...the success of many an Irish wedding by being left outside on the eve of the wedding in the hope of getting good weather for the photographs the following day, although I know of one unhappy Irish mother who in her pique at the bad weather left the infant child of Prague out for the whole week just to punish him in the elements subsequently. On a more sombre note, I attended a meeting of...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. I thank him for his engagement, and that of his officials, with me and other Senators, which arose out of concerns I raised on Committee Stage regarding a number of issues, including the one that is the subject of this amendment. It is fair to say that the Minister and I both clarified our thinking, to judge by the difference between the language in the Bill on...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for his response. I have not had sight of it. I would like to consider it carefully. It seems to me, however, that he is basing this entirely on a certain view of the demands of equality and autonomy and a certain interpretation of what they mean in this particular circumstance. What he is saying, basically, is that he wants a pregnant woman to be in exactly the same...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to speak on the section. It will take a few minutes. I am opposing section 73 of the Bill, which amends section 85 of the 2015 Act. That section, as it stands, allows for consideration of the interests of unborn children in a very rare set of circumstances. In summary, the existing section 85(6)(a) provides that where a woman lacks capacity and is pregnant but her AHD does not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: When one looks at debates in Britain on Brexit and the protocol, and the behaviour of the British Government around those things, or the behaviour of leading politicians during lockdown and the ongoing craziness in the United States around many issues, we in Ireland might be tempted to think that somehow we have a more objective way of doing politics and looking at issues of public...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Senator O’Loughlin mentioned Fórsa. In another context, I see that Fórsa raised €250,000 for the Ukraine appeal among its members, and that was topped up by a further €250,000, amounting to a €500,000. I say "Well done" to Fórsa and its members. The Senator raised a good point about the census. Although there is another dimension to this which...

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

Rónán Mullen: We are approaching the season of peace and goodwill. "Pax" is the Latin word for peace. All I want for Christmas is a packet of Paxlovid. I know that Senators Warfield and Keogan are good people and people of goodwill, and I believe much more unites than divides them. However, this is what I would like to see. Criticisms may perhaps be made regarding what is sometimes now put across in our...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister to the House and I will pay attention to his response and to the other speakers after me, although unfortunately I cannot be here for the remainder of the debate because of another commitment. I am not just here to defend the right to protest in a range of circumstances but I am also here to defend decent people who want to save lives. Listening to Senator Seery...

Seanad: Family Leave Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 Mar 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...I would, of course, welcome any constitutional or legal change that would bring about a more permanent way of dealing with maternity leave among Ministers in future. Above all, I wish her, her husband, Paul, and their new baby the very best for the coming months and years. I welcome the Bill, in particular some of what the Minister said in the course of his speech. I welcome any measure...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister and I welcome this report. I understand why criticisms have been made and I sympathise with the people making those criticisms. Yet, I believe, looking at the commission, that it did try to be fair. I think a word of thanks to Judge Murphy and her commission is not out of place. It is a report that paints a sad and sobering picture of how women and children were...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I have brought up something of substance. My recommendation has been ruled out of order on a technicality and as a result, I was advised by the Cathaoirleach and the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I was within my rights to speak to the section. What I am saying is that section 4 should include a recommendation of the kind I am making, which proposes the insertion of a new section 5 that would...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Nov 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I would like to propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I propose that No. 1 not be taken without debate and that a 45 minute debate be allowed, with the associated changes being made to the Order of Business. I am a member of the education committee, all members of which had something to say on this important issue. The future of our technological universities and their...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...addressed one aspect of the amendment I tabled. It related to information that might serve to identify any third party, living or deceased, who was the subject of any untested or unproven claims and allegations contained therein, where such claims or allegations concerned an illegal act or would otherwise in the view of the commission be injurious to the reputation of any third party. I...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I support the amendments tabled by Senators McDowell and Boyhan. The first amendment is definitional, setting up the reference to the confidential committee. The first of the two substantive amendments proposed refers to the material that will be passed on to Tusla and I note the importance of Senator McDowell's questions to the Minister at the outset. As I understand it, he was seeking to...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (23 Oct 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...the impression that she was a very clever woman. There are no prizes for guessing which of the two Prime Ministers of Great Britain she favoured. Feargal had a way of putting you at your ease and showing great interest in what you had to say and your ideas, regardless of whether he agreed or disagreed with them. It was not that he had the cleverness of Disraeli to flatter people; he was...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I come from County Galway and I know many people in Tuam. A friend of mine is a local historian there. People have been following the Tuam story very closely and taking the temperature on the ground. One major issue survivors have is with the fact that despite their pleas to the Minister when she met them in Tuam during the summer, they are still getting news of reports and important...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: This amendment would insert a new section 22 concerning the provision of foetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of foetal heart tone and would provide that at least 24 hours before the carrying out of a termination of pregnancy in accordance with sections 9, 11 or 12, the relevant medical practitioner or a qualified person assisting the relevant medical practitioner would be required to...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: This is another amendment consequential on an amendment that has not been allowed. We did, however, discuss the issue at some considerable length on Committee Stage. Again, it refers to the grounds for abortion in section 9 and the use of the word "appropriate". As I pointed out on Committee Stage, the word is not to be found in the relevant Medical Council language. It is to be...