Results 1-20 of 37 for cork speaker:Rónán Mullen

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

Rónán Mullen: ...He was warned about this and people pleaded with him. We tabled modest compromise amendments. We pointed out the flaws, the lack of evidence, the fact that the Garda said the legislation was not necessary, and the fact that hospitals in Limerick and Cork stated there was no problem here. We pointed out the Minister's ideology in pushing this legislation. He is on board with people and...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...was forced to take the extraordinary step of issuing a statement challenging claims that there had been "intimidatory" anti-abortion protests outside its facilities. Last year, a spokesperson for Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, told the Irish Examiner newspaper that, "To date, CUMH has not received any complaints from patients regarding the protests". The spokesperson also...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...of this dishonesty from the Government. There is law on the Statute Book, as the Garda Commissioner said. Regarding those who want to witness to human dignity in a way that has not caused a problem in the eyes of the Limerick or Cork hospitals, the only people the Minister has been able to draw on are those referred to in the highly questionable document of the HSE – it is...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...is the much more valid comparison. The witness that might take place within 100 m of an abortion-providing facility is effectively a witness against injustice and a call to a better way of doing medicine. It is not about the Government. According to Cork University Hospital, it is about a small number of very powerless people in society, who just seek to witness. Sometimes, it might be...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...saying that such legislation was not needed. The claims that people attending hospitals were being impeded by a lobby group were effectively undermined by the hospitals themselves. For example, Cork University Hospital released a statement to the effect that it had not received any complaints from patients regarding the protests. What we see here is an example of what Hannah Arendt...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Schools) Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...is obviously far less preferable than the easier option of curtailing sports or implementing so-called “no running” policies. I was also concerned to find, quite by accident, a firm of solicitors in Cork that loudly advertises its work in taking litigation against schools for such injuries. I hope that is an isolated case because if not it would significantly add to this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I listened to everything the Minister had to say about Cork Life Centre so I will not ask her to comment further. Having visited the place and met students and their teachers, however, it struck me, and continues to strike me, how particularly unfair it seems. When we have teachers who are giving a very targeted, specific and necessary service to students...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...means we will need to find new sources of imported gas. While we are adopting renewables, should we not try to utilise new domestic sources that may exist, such as the Barryroe field off west Cork, instead of relying more and more on questionable sources of oil from abroad? I worry that we are cutting off our nose to spite our face. The phrase "just transition" is regularly used in...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...of a need for consent classes. We can have both. We can talk to people about morality, particularly in the context of Christian schools. Only last night I saw a wonderful presentation by Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh Presentation school in Cork, to mark Presentation Day. It did not touch on these fraught issues, but it was quite obvious from the way those students talk about their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Records (18 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...month or more to be processed. We are talking here about the consularisation of documents by the authentication and apostille public offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs. These offices in Dublin and Cork have been closed to the public since last December and they have accepted documents by post only. This has led, as I have said, to delays of four weeks or more in the processing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...people because "people hurt faster than institutions", should that person's views be supported by Oireachtas Members and reported uncritically in the media? I welcome the fact that University College Cork, UCC, has decided not to pursue the joint college arrangement with Minzu University in China. The arrangement would have seen courses across a number of disciplines being delivered...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I convey to the Leader through the Deputy Leader my gratitude as when I raised two weeks ago the University College Cork report into a foetal medicine specialist's experience of carrying out late-term abortions in the context of children diagnosed with a fatal foetal so-called anomalyin utero, she undertook to ask the Minister to come in to discuss the matter in this House. I have not...

Seanad: Technological Universities Agenda: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...important that Seanadóirí discuss these issues as they progress. The motion before us last week was on the establishment of the Munster Technological University and the merger of IT Tralee and Cork IT. I welcome that development, as does everyone here, since it will strengthen the quality of education provided by those bodies, and I do not to detract from the good work already...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...did not do the lotto on the weekend his or her favourite six numbers were picked out, we ought to sympathise with the person who would have won the fifth by-election that would have taken place in Cork North Central had the incumbent resigned and the Taoiseach moved the writ. I suspect the unknown winner would probably have been Senator Colm Burke, who is present. I am sure his day will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages (19 Jun 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...coalface, are scathing about this rule. The Jack and Jill Foundation says that it flies in the face of compassionate care. Ms Eilín Ní Mhurchú, the Jack and Jill Foundation's liaison nurse in Cork has said:It is only adding to the burden of care for these families, it is not helpful. The HSE seems so far removed from the daily lives of these families ... They are not...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (29 May 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...am getting is a massaging of statistics in order to put the best possible léamh ar an scéal, but that is not good enough given the real human suffering. Only recently I was listening to a GP in Cork talk about persons attempting suicide, going into accident and emergency departments, being sent home with an appointment with a psychiatrist some weeks hence and then further...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...game, even at this time when perhaps we feel we are being provoked the most. I raise the issue of mental health services which, as we all know, are at crisis point. Listening to Dr. Quinlan from Cork talk today about the anecdotal information focuses the mind on the reality. It could involve the parents of a child who has attempted to commit suicide bringing him or her to the GP, the GP...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (6 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...face that they are in the south of the country. This is news which will be greeted with a hoot of derision in those towns. Worse still, of the four sitting MEPs in Ireland South, one is based in Cork city, two others in west Cork and the fourth is in Kerry. This geographical spread is unlikely to change significantly in the upcoming elections. If I am correct, how can voters in Laois...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...the Border. In these circumstances, one can see how much this proposal could rankle with a great many people. I know that Deputies Michael Collins and Danny Healy-Rae have been running buses from Cork and Kerry to Belfast for cataract surgery and hip replacements in recent years.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...I knew Seymour and found him very pleasant company. I extend my condolences to his loved ones. This month we have seen the introduction of an air ambulance service in the south-west area based in Cork. The new service is run by Irish Community Rapid Response, a group whose work deserves to be commended. It provides airlifts of patients to specialist units arising out of accidents and...