Results 1-20 of 372 for long speaker:Rónán Mullen

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

Rónán Mullen: .... It simply seeks to insulate, at a time when we see so much cancel culture and so much unfortunate dispute on third level campuses, mainly abroad, but it could happen here too. It is not that long since Mary Kenny, the distinguished journalist, found herself cancelled when she had been invited to speak at an event to mark International Women's Day. Those who opposed her gender-critical...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...of human trafficking. Maybe we should have a debate in the House on why we are only at level two according to the trafficking in persons report? We have been underperforming in this area for a long time. Recognising the goodwill on all sides, we should not be afraid to ask what has gone wrong and why we are laggards in this area. Is it that we are not putting enough money into it? God...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...the politicians were in the grip of the activists. The idea that when we are dealing with the HSE we are dealing with some kind of honourable neutral, incapable of being corrupted by ideology, has long since lost its credibility. However, I reiterate that the Minister has signally failed to bring forward evidence from a single healthcare facility. Let us be clear that we are talking...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...believe in constitutional rights and freedoms, that it would be necessary to put it beyond doubt that a person should be entitled to engage in silent prayer. However, we saw an incident in the United Kingdom not too long ago where, in effect, a policeman harassed a person and asked her if she was engaging in prayer. The answer the person gave was that she might be doing so. I forget...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...rights I am seeking to defend here. I have a forum. I have several fora in which I can communicate my distress that we have a law in this country that allows the killing of innocent children. As long as I live, I will not let that issue go un-discussed and I will challenge the media, people in power and so on. There are many more people who feel as I do. We will always do so in a way...

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

Rónán Mullen: I will, and I do not intend to take longer than is necessary. My colleague, Senator McDowell, had to take considerably longer recently on the referendum legislation, which was also rushed through. I will do my best to keep to the point. My point is that we do not have abortion clinics in Ireland. Therefore, if a person in any given situation wants to promote or get out a pro-life message...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...that we ask the Minister to bring forward safe access zones legislation", that is my point. The Minister has not given chapter and verse on the evidence case and that has been the strategy all along with this legislation. It is to get complaints that we cannot properly test. It is not clear who is involved, except in one case I know of where there was a named campaigning organisation,...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...is a moment to show contempt, outrage, horror and disgust. Killing unborn children is one of those moments for an awful lot of people in this society. Those people are people, to my knowledge and in my long experience of advocacy around this issue, who care deeply about the welfare of both mothers and their unborn children. If anybody thought that this issue was going to go away in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Is Dr. Twomey confident that safeguards could address what is, let us face it, a long list of risk issues?

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...really opposing. She had no problem at all if people's only problem was with the wording. If deep down people had a problem with the premise, she said they should say so. Some of us have been in the Oireachtas a long time before Senator O'Reilly. I was in the Oireachtas before she was. I am open to correction, but on more than one occasion I stated clearly that what I would favour a...

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

Rónán Mullen: ...and through the harrowing testimony of men and women who have survived these camps and fled China. The Irish Uyghur Cultural Association, which launches this week, aims to foster a sense of support and belonging for Uyghur people living in Ireland, and to share and celebrate Uyghur culture with the broader Irish population.Its aims are to protect and support Uyghur language and culture by...

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

Rónán Mullen: Does he condemn it? . Deputy Micheál Martin:I emphasise that this position does not detract, in any way, from our long-standing concerns on the situation in Xinjiang or our commitment to upholding human rights globally. We continue to work with our partners in the EU as to how we can best move this issue forward in respect of proper assessment from the EU on the ground, following up on...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: .... However, they are changing the meaning of things to bring about the radical change they want. The Government will say the family is still based on marriage and that it has just extended the definition but, no, it has emptied the definition of any meaning. No longer can the traditional understanding of family linked to marriage, ideally, or marriage-like relationships, be given as an...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ..., we get bait-and-switch politics from the Government. It holds out to people the prospect of getting rid of, apparently, a sexist reference to women only in the context of home duties. It holds out the prospect of giving long overdue recognition to carer but what did it do? It proposes to give us a watery clause on care that means nothing and to get rid of any reference to mothers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...important to say this committee may well choose not to recommend legislation if it believes this proposal would do more harm than good. I certainly believe that and I have been saying that for a long time. Some people think we will do more harm than good full stop. I do not want put words in the witnesses' mouths but what I am hearing from them is that in the absence of the entitlements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...is obviously good. It is part of the gift that has evolved through the millennia that we can do these great things to alleviate pain and suffering, to enable people to enjoy life for as long as possible, and to live well for as long as possible. Human dignity demands that one would never violate people by forcing medicine on them. At the same time, it seems to be that the lesson of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ..., of course, that people could bring discrimination-based cases on the ground that if it is available for somebody who is terminally ill, why not for somebody whose perception of their own long-term disability means that they do not want to go on living either. Given that the NDA is not a representative body, it actually is in a position to make a recommendation on the basis of its own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...to say, as the fellow said when asked what he thought of the French Revolution 200 years on. It is certainly too early to say in these countries. We must look at the countries where it has been long established, and what we see, as Professor Theo Boer has told us, is a shaking of social attitudes where people think about themselves and their illness in a new way. This is the idea that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I agree with some of what my colleague, Senator Dooley, has said, but I disagree to an extent. The worst thing to happen in our country for a long time happened last Thursday morning with the stabbing of innocent people, including three young children and their carer. Our thoughts and prayers must remain, in particular, with the five-year-old child who remains in a critical condition and...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages [Resumed] (15 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...seeks to achieve in a democratic system. It is clear that a power, an approval like this, is something irregular and therefore should not be something that just goes on indefinitely or for too long a period. For this reason, we consider that a period of three months is appropriate. Again, having regard to the principle I have just set out, amendment No. 26 simply seeks to impose a duty...