Results 1-20 of 58 for drugs speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...whole area of migration. I have always said that we need a policy that is generous but structured and structured but generous. It is vital that we get this issue right because when it comes to drugs and trafficking if these issues get out of control, this country will not always have the resources it has now. I often wonder if we think enough about what our society will look like in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...slashed palliative care funding while directing some of that money to assisted suicide. This was AUS $150 million that was supposed to pay for items like palliative care, nurses, pain management, drugs and better end-of-life services and was put into the general New South Wales health budget, which includes AUS $97.4 million over four years to implement voluntary assisted dying laws....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: Sorry to interrupt. I have to put a point of order. What Dr. Nitschke is saying is interesting but did we have a discussion at some stage at the committee about whether we were going to talk about drugs in open session? Does it raise issues about the vulnerability of people who might be watching and so on? I have some recollection of there being concerns about-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...exploited by the more than 100 child gender clinics that sprang into existence over 15 years. Their affirmation-only model meant that young girls were prescribed hormones without question, that drug companies got thousands of lifetime patients and that surgeons - including, regrettably, at least one Irish medical graduate - popped up on TikTok and the like indicating that they would be...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...not be doing a service to the young people in galleries whom we want to address. This country is an extremely violent place for some. It is more violent than it ever was before. There are people caught up in drug addiction and in multigenerational educational disadvantage to a greater extent than was the case in the past. This country has disimproved in many ways while improving in many...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...is, and always has been and will continue to be, strongly supportive of generous immigration policies. Is there a problem of excessive drinking, the importation and widespread consumption of illegal drugs and attitudes towards this? Is that leading to violence? Is there a loss of the sense of meaning and purpose in life connected with a decline of religious faith contributing to a...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...often do, all of the progress made in our society ,we also need to be unafraid to ask honestly whether there are ways in which our society is getting worse, why that is and whether it is to do with drug taking, mental health issues and how we deal with those who have mental health problems, with rampant individualism or with violence on our screens, digital media and games. We need to ask...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (22 Sep 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ..., not just as a trading partner for the purchase of our goods - which I say as a son of the land myself as I am very conscious of China and other such markets for our agricultural produce - but when it comes to areas like healthcare, pharmaceuticals and drug-testing, there are many ways in which we have allowed ourselves to become greatly dependent on China. The danger is that the focus...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...in the horse racing industry who do not love horses and who see them as machines and entities to be used for making money. One of the reasons we are so concerned about the possibility of a massive drug problem in Irish horse racing is because we know what is going on in America where horses have been broken down and given drugs to mask pain so they can be used to death. We have now seen...

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

Rónán Mullen: If I could turn to the question of doping, one of the problems with the claims being made about the fear that drug taking is a major problem in Irish horse racing is that it is very difficult to catch. Those who do this kind of thing are very skilled at staying ahead of the investigators. We know how they had to be brought down in America and that has brought changes, including to...

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

Rónán Mullen: Is Mr. Drea in a position to tell me, first, that he 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...

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

Rónán Mullen: Mr. Drea stated that the controlled delivery has complexities attached because one would not necessarily find the product. I am talking about a situation where drugs have been seized. Is there expertise on the spot when that happens to know that they could be used in horse doping? Serious allegations have been made affecting the reputation of the Irish horse racing sector, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...horses. How is it acceptable for an organisation that is a self-selecting club to be the regulatory organisation for that sector, particularly when it comes to something as sensitive as integrity and drug testing? Is that not an anachronism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: .... Claims are made by people who have a high reputation, people of long standing in the industry, people who have a completely clean record, and people who say that they have moral certainty, that drug taking is the number one problem. The representatives from IHRB come in here and say that they are frustrated and disappointed by recent allegations. With everything we have heard so far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: -----the IHRB and Mr. Egan are not frustrated and disappointed by the claims that drug taking is the number one problem in horse racing and that we have a problem coming down the tracks? Am I clear that the IHRB is not frustrated and disappointed, and that it has no issue or problem with the statement being made?

Seanad: Post Office Network: Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ..., not well-meaning verbiage. People describe being reactionary as wanting to go back to the status quo ante. Any of us familiar with the state of our larger and smaller towns knows about the physical decline and the problems in terms of drugs but, in particular, the pathetic look of so many of those towns. We need to invest in the appearance of our towns for the sake of public morale...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...deal with the knock-on effects of lockdown such as loneliness, isolation and alcohol abuse. I note what has been said about the coincidence of addiction and mental health issues in the context of both drug and alcohol abuse, and I will come to gambling in a moment. I will deal with the knock-on effects of the lockdown, the likely effects of a further economic slump that we may face post...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...on the matter. I had intended to raise the issue of the welfare of pre-born children. I am glad the Minister for Health has finally established an inquiry into the use and licensing of the drug valproate, otherwise known as Epilim, which has for decades been licensed and used in the treatment of epilepsy and manage seizures but it has been known for some time that it can cause birth...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...by Carmel Sheehan in County Kildare about her daughter, Kerri, who is 15 years of age and suffers from juvenile arthritis, which afflicts many people who have Down's syndrome. Kerri is taking the drug Humira to manage the pain of her condition, a drug which has a range of unpleasant and dangerous side effects. This makes a regular MRI necessary in order to monitor the effects of the...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...life itself, a well-meaning, perhaps idealistic, but negative individualism, and on the right, one sees a selfishness that one can associate with a culture that is increasingly unconcerned about drug-taking and all sorts of life choices that end up harming others. There is a real need for better political leadership on all sides, and I would be very slow to express a preference as to the...