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

Rónán Mullen: ...and constructive engagement led to a complaint about me to the Committee on Members Interests of Seanad Éireann? It was claimed that I had not upheld my duty. It is relevant that yesterday it landed on my desk and that the Oireachtas committee met on 17 January and decided that this complaint was frivolous and vexatious. Why is that relevant? It is relevant because this frivolous...

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

Rónán Mullen: I know it is the law of the land. Medical ethics exist independently of the law of the land, or do they? Must medical ethics never disagree with what is considered permissible under the law of the land? Is it a separate journey that one makes? It was always the law of the land, yet all along it was clearly said. A medic who breaks the law of the land is of interest not just to the law of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...on the Internet, including agender, acegender, androgyne, apogender, astronomique, cookie gender, gendercat, fluid queer, one that I cannot politely render here, hyperfluid, etc. All of this is now being landed in the middle of a criminal law Bill where somebody could be attacked for being a hater for stating in robust, but necessarily robust, terms that not only is this nonsense but it...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...people in his country. I felt a surge of pride as I thought to myself that the Spanish might have given us the Camino but we gave them the camán. It was a wonderful thing. I am also delighted to discover that Mr. McCarthy is related to the last Governor-General of Ireland, Domhnall Ua Buachalla. As the president and most people here will know, the Governor-General was hard of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: A couple of years ago, there was talk of bringing the Seanad on tour but there is really no need because it lands in every town and village in Ireland sooner or later. I acknowledge what Senator Chambers said about the issue of women's health and Fianna Fáil's proposals in that area. I commend Fianna Fáil on its focus on that area. I might say a bit more about that tomorrow....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...“I do not really blame him.” However, the Nigerian Government is pushing an analysis that seeks to portray these atrocities as happening in the context of disputes between tribal people over land. As the bishop pointed out, every month Catholic priests are being kidnapped and it costs a fortune to ransom them back. It is not happening to imams. There are, of course,...

Seanad: Forestry Licensing: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...Act was the issue of the right to appeal. Originally, it was proposed that that right should be restricted to those who have a direct interest in the matter by virtue of the fact they occupy adjoining land or have contributed to the consultation process at an earlier stage. To me, that seemed entirely reasonable. It is in line with the rule which generally applies in court settings that...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...small step, but one which must be taken. The crisis has been exacerbated by the wider housing shortage, but the Covid pandemic also hit many students who were the victims of some very sharp practice from landlords on the refund of rent and deposits as a result of the pandemic. One of the landlords who attempted to gouge money from students was one of our third-level institutions, the...

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...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 shut down two power generation stations, pat ourselves on the back for being good environmentalists and then import...

Seanad: Situation in Belarus: Statements (5 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...flag of Belarus which has been adopted by those seeking change. That is what happened to Natalia Sivtsova-Sedushkina. The Minister is familiar with, and my colleague, Senator Ward, mentioned, the outlandish and outrageous forced landing of a Ryanair aircraft in Minsk last May and the capture and imprisonment of journalist Roman Protasevich. The impunity and brazenness in respect of that...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...and I turned it upside down and what did I read but that it also was made in China. People do not realise the extent to which we have become dependent on China, 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...

Seanad: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...will allow businesses in effect to claim an advance tax credit of up to €15,000 to deal with reopening expenses. This is exactly the kind of cushion we need to be putting in place to ensure soft landings and that there will be no cliff-edge when other supports are ended. The warehousing of tax liabilities will be extended by the Bill, continuing until the end of 2021.As I said...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...problem is such that the Oireachtas should be willing to make serious direct interventions to tackle it, and to give the Government the benefit of the doubt when it seeks to do so. The Bill establishes the Land Development Agency as a commercial State entity. Its objective will be to assemble land for development and to utilise State and public lands properly, and, using that land, to...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...number of units, but where development has not commenced, should be considered to be vacant sites in the first instance. Second, if an element of self-assessment was brought into the operation of the levy, compelling landowners of sites that have been the subject of grants of planning permission to register those sites, it would at least ease the burden and ensure a greater level of...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...for the development of three or more houses on the site, and that the development has not yet commenced,", (b) in section 5(2), in the definition of "site", after "means" to insert: "any area of land exceeding 0.05 hectares or, for the purposes of section 5(1)(a) and/or section 5(1)(b),", (c) in section 6, by the substitution of the following subsections for subsection (2): "(2) The...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...much greater question going beyond the scope of this proposed amendment. It is not at all clear that the levy is succeeding in its overall aim, which is to encourage the freeing up of development land so it may be used to develop housing and to address the issues of homelessness and the shortage of new homes, which we are all concerned about.I note in passing the significant progress that...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...need housing. There may be an inequity as matters stand between those who are being nabbed for the levy and those who are not. There is a possible incentive in certain cases for people to sit on land. This is a matter of some urgency. As I said this morning, I may introduce this amendment in the context of the planning legislation, which is also before the House. I ask that the...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...about securing the future of centrist politics in this country and that is no small matter when one considers the consequences of letting extremes come to the fore in politics. To be centrist is not to be bland. To be centrist is to keep an eye on the common good at all times and not to set one person against the other or one class against the other but to seek to look out for the...

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Sep 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...backlog of appeals that now stands at over two years, which has knock-on effects in many areas. For example, it limits the supply of timber for home building. It also has an impact on people who have planted trees on their land because they cannot reap a financial dividend as a result of delays due to these appeals. One is not talking about big farmers in every case. One could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...Redmond was kind to acknowledge and clarify this, but it was probably not necessary for him to do so. I return to the question of extending the eligibility criteria to include a situation where land is leased. I apologise if I am cutting stubble. On the one hand, the tax incentives for long-term leases are to achieve the particular policy objective of promoting land mobility. Mr....