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

Rónán Mullen: ...includes a general practitioner, it would, therefore, exclude any general practitioner who had notified the Minister in the terms I have just outlined. The effect of that would be to provide for a GP with a conscientious objection to the provision of the service in question who does not want to be in any way, shape or form to be used in the context of any threat by the Garda of...

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

Rónán Mullen: .... It is a profoundly unjust elective procedure. I am not talking about the necessary medical procedures that can result in the loss of an unborn child. I am talking about elective, voluntary abortion, which is now provided in GP surgeries and hospitals. If people do not see that as healthcare, are they entitled in a democracy to be on the street and in the vicinity of such places,...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...is we do not have direct and precise knowledge of where abortions are taking place. We may know that certain hospitals are doing it, but a person who holds up a placard in a street and there is a GP surgery down the road does not know whether that person is a conscientious objector or whether abortions are being facilitated in that clinic. As far as I can see, they are caught by the law...

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

Rónán Mullen: .... Let us say they are in a clinic that is providing abortions or somebody within the clinic is providing abortions, but unlike the Government, they respect that there are two sides to it and that they have people perhaps within their GP clinic who do not agree with abortion. They might say that some staff may provide this service, but we do not want our provision of this service to be...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...to reassure people that there is something reasonable about all of this. The reality, in our country, is that we do not have abortion clinics per se. Abortion is available and it happens in GP surgeries and hospitals. People who access these places enjoy complete anonymity. The record of those who would witness, for whatever reason, to the injustice of abortion outside facilities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Rónán Mullen: That is fine, I thank Professor Boer. He also mentioned incidences where euthanasia is carried out under the auspices of the GP, but he also mentioned that there are private companies involved. When that happens, because there is no doctor-patient relationship, who is taking the initiative there?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (29 Nov 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...abuse. With remote consultations it is more likely that the most vulnerable women will fall through the cracks. Removing in-built safeguards like a physical consultation and the privacy afforded by a GP surgery is sheer recklessness. As was reported in the Irish Examiner on 24 October, a teenage Irish girl was locked in a room and given abortion tablets in order to force a termination....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...-administration of abortion pills. We also have the safeguarding issues associated with the removal of the need for in-person consultations. When we substitute that for a telephone call, we remove the privacy afforded by a GP’s surgery. There is no way for a doctor to verify that a woman requesting an abortion is actually alone and that she is not being pressured by a partner or...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...mater, which has now been renamed the University of Galway, at 6 p.m. this evening. I commend those who are keeping the real issues on the agenda. It is not going to be possible to provide free GP care for an additional 400,000 people. In my view, people earning between €20,000 and €30,000 do not stand to benefit very much from the budget announcements we have heard in...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...laws, to the point where we will crush all dissent in a way that is not befitting a mature and healthy democracy. I will make one last point. In Ireland we do not have abortion clinics. We have GP facilities and worryingly we now have abortions taking place through telemedicine, with no concern being expressed by supporters of abortion for the risk this entails around coercive abortions...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Election Monitoring Missions (6 Nov 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...and is it being done often enough? My understanding is that the existing Irish roster largely comprises retired persons who sometimes cannot be deployed for medical reasons. Observers require a GP to sign them off for duty and this will not happen in the current climate. Should more be done? The Minister of State issued a reply to a parliamentary question from Deputy Connolly on 15...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...What I 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: ...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 referring them to the emergency department, the emergency department sending them home having made an appointment to see a psychiatrist some weeks later, further attempts at...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister presents it as a reasonable balance but it is not at all reassuring. How could it be when there was so little consultation? The Minister broke the news on radio to GPs that his abortion regime would be GP-led. Before his announcement, he never consulted rank-and-file GPs around the country about turning their surgeries into abortion clinics and forcing them to become...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: .... Perhaps the Minister can also answer this question: what other elective procedures are performed entirely at the expense of the State and taxpayers in all cases? I cannot think of any. Representatives of the ICGP, and the IGO were asked this same question at the recent Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health hearings on 19 September. They could not identify another elective procedure...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Rónán Mullen: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Dar ndóigh, tacaím leis an reachtaíocht seo. I would also like to welcome the Minister of State. This is welcome legislation. The extension of the GP visit card to these categories of people is a welcome development, and the Minister of State has spoken clearly about the importance of carers to us as a community. I speak from personal...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...not enough is being done. He has also referred to the possible troubling dependency of doctors on the pharmaceutical industry for information. Approximately 85% of prescriptions emanate from GP settings, but after they qualify doctors are not tested on their drug prescribing abilities. It is also worth noting that approximately €17 million was paid out by the pharmaceutical...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...of Clare and it is important not to raise it as a Commencement matter but to ask the Minister for Health to come in and state that the Government will not abandon its commitment to the provision of GP services to people in rural Ireland. I would like to have a debate on that in early course.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...Ireland. It is increasingly difficult, if not virtually impossible, to convince young doctors to situate in rural areas and rural dwellers suffer the obvious consequence of that by not having access to a GP service. I call on the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, to direct the HSE to promptly pay the rural practice allowance to GPs in rural communities. I would also like the...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...the political triangulation involved. I do not like the way the Government gives with one hand and takes with the other. For example, there is little point telling older people they can have free GP care if they cannot afford their medicines. There is an astonishing amount of fear and concern among them. I was in touch with the family of a young man who is battling cancer. He has a...