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Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Amendments Nos. 39 and 40 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: I join Senator Zappone and other colleagues who have deplored the fact that Ibrahim Halawa is still in detention and that his trial has been postponed yet again. He went into prison as a 17 year old and has reached his 20th birthday. However, I deplore the political football Senator Daly is attempting to make of the issue. The Government is doing everything possible at the highest level....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Our embassy staff and diplomatic team in Egypt are giving every possible assistance to Ibrahim. We all want to see him home in Dublin, back in education and with his family, quickly. Hopefully, the trial will go ahead next Saturday.However, we also have to be concerned as to what happens after the trial. For that reason, I believe the Government has done everything right by not burning all...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and compliment him and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, on the raft of reforming legislation which has been steered successfully through the Oireachtas in recent months and which will come to a conclusion in the next number of days. I particularly welcome this significant and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Amendments Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: I thank the Leader for organising the statement yesterday by Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, on the flooding situation around the country. Our thoughts remain with the home owners and businesses that have been flooded in recent days and those who are on high alert as a result of rising rivers throughout the country. I hope there will be a break in the weather in the coming days. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Given that business is scheduled until 10 p.m., the Leader is unlikely to be able to accede to a request that the Minister of State, Deputy Harris, would come to the House to discuss the flooding issue. I made a request yesterday that we would try to organise it late this week or early next week. Obviously, communities are going through great hardship, with people throughout the country...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Phase one of that project has been very successful but we want to get to the next phase of the investment. We need an update on the CFRAM study which will be the blueprint for flood alleviation measures and investment into the future. I would like a detailed debate on the progress of that study and what funding is likely to be put behind it. We cannot praise enough the local authority...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: -----and that the bureaucracy will be kept to a minimum.

Seanad: Gradam an Uachtaráin Bill 2015: Second Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Gradam an Uachtaráin Bill 2015: Second Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: It is on the agenda that I got.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: I do not think anything can be gained by bringing this young man's legal team to a public meeting of this committee. The best way to handle this case is with diplomacy behind the scenes, as is happening with the involvement of the Taoiseach, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and our diplomatic team. We need to support them but having the legal team here in public session would harm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Before we go to a vote, may I put a question to Senator Daly? What different information is the legal team going to give us in public that it will not give us in private?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is it agreed that we meet the legal team?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Michael Mullins: Following on from what some of my colleagues have said in respect of the flooding, will the Leader organise a debate with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, and the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Simon Harris, if not this week, early next week, to discuss the problems that have arisen from the unprecedented flooding at the weekend?...