Results 1-20 of 40 for destroyed speaker:Rónán Mullen

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

Rónán Mullen: ...completely ignored all the concerns about precautionary pain relief and the lack of it, the reality of what happens in a late-term abortion and the major moral and social question about what it is to destroy a human life, whether at an early or late stage, in the womb. On all of that, since the repeal of the eighth amendment and the introduction of legislation for abortion, the attitude...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...there was some kind of a dark irony because some people who were against freedoms were now seeking to protect freedoms. The only freedom the Minister is talking about here is the freedom to destroy innocent life. Those who oppose that particular freedom see themselves as defending a much more fundamental freedom, which is the freedom to have the same opportunity the Minister himself had...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...have thought in an election year its members would want to convince the thousands of people in Ireland who think Green Party members may have some good ideas but are utterly unrealistic people who would destroy life as we know it if they got half a chance-----

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...to win here, we cannot have the Dublin Airport Authority wetting itself with enthusiasm on social media about the big aeroplane on the tarmac. That is not the way we normally welcome the abusers of human rights - the destroyers of human life and dignity. For both sides to win here, human rights cannot be taken off the table and the Uyghurs and their culture deemed ultimately disposable....

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

Rónán Mullen: ..., Bakhmut is Europe's modern Somme. The thousands of young lives being sacrificed in the tunnels and streets of that place are crying to heaven for angels of peace. Ukrainian and Russian families are being destroyed by a conflict which can never have a winner. It is a conflict being urged on by leaders far from the battlefield. Now is not the time to be cosying up to NATO or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Motor Fuels (3 May 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...vehicles would not be affected. Is there an element of spin in saying it is safe to use E10? Nobody is saying the cars that do not take E10 are going to blow up but the additional ethanol would destroy aluminium and rubber fuel lines. To say it is simply a matter more frequent maintenance is erroneous. In other countries, provision was made for the limited availability of the E5 blend...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...to the engines of older vehicles, specifically those. According to my correspondent, this issue would affect tens of thousands of cars whose owners are likely unaware that the extra ethanol would destroy aluminium and rubber fuel lines in cars such as his. That would certainly seem to be unreasonable. When I looked up what the Government had to say on it, it was not at all clear because...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...officials said in our meeting that somehow he feels that if he names the unborn or unborn child as an entity, he is somehow taking the focus off the mother. However, again, that is a zero-sum game and conflictual interpretation of what is going on here. The mother has not made an AHD to destroy the life of her child. We accept that a person can make an AHD refusing treatment even if...

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...lives in ordinary and responsible ways. Sadly, our policies are increasingly tending towards punishing ordinary people, damaging agriculture, crippling small businesses in certain sectors and destroying jobs, while doing little or nothing to reduce our carbon footprint overall. We end peat extraction in Ireland and start shipping in peat from the other side of Europe. What gives? We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...from within the Civil Service. He pointed out to me that often when customs seize imported products they write to the consignee giving him or her a warning and sometimes asking for permission to destroy the product seized. Given that it is unlikely generally that customs will seize a consignment, when that happens it is a rare opportunity to find out who is using drugs, but very often...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...has the expertise on site to know if the drug that has been seized by customs could be used in horse doping and, second, where that happens he does not warn off the consignee and seek permission to destroy the drug but that a controlled delivery is done in all of those situations in order to find the wrongdoers? Could he guarantee that he does that in those situations?

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

Rónán Mullen: ...allow debate on a toothless motion purely for political grandstanding. It is high time Government Senators stood up to their party leaders and told them to back off. The reputation of the Seanad is destroyed every time this guillotining rule is implemented. I also raise today the strange attitudes of the Department of Foreign Affairs. On 19 May, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy...

Seanad: Ireland-China Relations: Motion (8 Oct 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...escalated into the destruction of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute recently produced a study of satellite imagery that shows thousands of mosques – some 30% of the total in the region - have been destroyed since 2017. The construction of detention camps began in 2014 and was denied by China until 2018. China refers to the camps as vocational...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...brainwashed, forced to speak Chinese and made to abandon their own culture. At least 10% of the entire Uyghur population in the Xinjiang region is now incarcerated. The aim is to systematically destroy their culture. As one writer put it, in that province, every day is Kristallnacht. Needless to say, the Chinese Government lied through its teeth about this for several years until the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...can be set against the one million Uyghurs affected by brutal Chinese state repression.That is a value of approximately €17,000 that we place, or do not place, on every Uighur whose life has been destroyed or who has been tortured or brutalised by the current regime in Beijing. Even as we criticise Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump or the Democratic Party candidate,...

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

Rónán Mullen: A great deal has been said about trust during this debate. Frankly, the Government has destroyed trust in ways I have demonstrated several times over the past couple of-----

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...the assistance of the 4D ultrasound we have doctors in abortion jurisdictions, such as Britain, asking themselves how can it be right that we are trying to save life in one part of a hospital and destroy it at an almost similar term of pregnancy in another part of it? Science makes all that knowledge possible but, sadly, it has also made possible new ways of destroying life. There is...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: These people used to defend freedom of conscience and now they want to destroy innocent, unborn lives. Consider the Abortion Rights Campaign Ireland or the likes of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties - supposedly a charity - which is getting money to change the law and-----

Seanad: Communications, Climate Action and the Environment: Statements (6 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: ...and sometimes understated - disparity or disconnect between urban and rural in our society. I come from a parish, which the Minister knows well given that he has family connections there, where RTE nearly destroyed the life and career of a man.There was reason to believe at the time, and it was widely stated, that perhaps the culture of prejudice towards faith, faith communities and...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...on flooding and on the measures to compensate those affected by the winter storms. We have all seen the footage of the floods, ruined homes and businesses and the Christmas plans that have been destroyed. There have been four Atlantic storms this year. However, there are two things that are predictable, severe weather and the pathetic response from Government. Each time it happens, we...