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Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...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 energy from abroad which was generated by burning fossil fuels or by nuclear power. We also need a debate on nuclear power....

Seanad: Civil Liability (Capping of General Damages Bill) 2019: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...worked within the courts in that time. Should it not do so before seeking to limit judicial discretion in relation to damages? In a broader sense, I wonder if this Bill is a continuation in form of a pattern of populist attack on the Judiciary by Government in the recent past. We had the 2011 referendum on judicial pay. We have spent 75 days in the Seanad discovering the nonsense...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...statement from somebody in her position, as she regrets that "there appears to be a campaign strategy" to suggest otherwise. That is very worrying. I heard Dr. Boylan was on, unopposed, with Pat Kenny on Newstalk yet again this morning. It is now a fact that there are approximately ten or 11 obstetricians in Cork who are asking Dr. Boylan to step aside from his role as chair in light of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...scandal and then I have two questions on abortion prompted by the Minister's comments. To go back to the issue of mandatory disclosure first, I was particularly impressed by an article by Pat Leahy in The Irish Timeslast week, which the Minister may have seen, in which Mr. Leahy gives some deserved criticism of us all as a political class about the failure to face down establishment...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...to pay the licence fee if the Minister makes such a change to the law. There has been a lot of confusion in recent years about the possibility of such a charge. In July 2013, the then Minister, Pat Rabbitte, made a clear commitment to introducing a broadcasting charge by 2015 and by the time that date arrived his successor, Alex White, told this House that he believed a public service...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...it provides. Like others, I note that what has been offered is also mild in that it is just 2.5 hours of resource teaching per week per child. The chief executive of Down Syndrome Ireland, Pat Clarke, said that regardless of the level of severity of Down's syndrome, what is needed is between five and eight resource hours. I hope that this does not act as a delaying tactic in respect of...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Farm Safety: Discussion (23 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...from people who would come on to farms to deal with farmers? Are we talking about 200,000 people at least? How many of those people are on Teagasc's books? In the earlier session, Councillor Pat Dolan referred to the half-day course provided by Teagasc, which comes at a cost of €25. I am aware there are other educational initiatives, and there is the website material and so on....

Seanad: Electricity Transmission Network: Motion (13 Nov 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...credit unions. It has been difficult to get the relevant line Ministers to come before the House and take responsibility for matters relating to their portfolios. I compliment the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, on the passion he displayed during his contribution. On the Government's general approach, I wish to paraphrase an old political saying and say to the Minister, "Let me tell you...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...have access to mainstream education, which has been shown to improve self-esteem and social skills for students with disabilities; - that, while respecting the entitlement of schools and their patrons to develop enrolment criteria and policies, any policies and/or criteria that exclude students with special education needs are illegitimate, unfair and discriminatory;and calls on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, I would support the proposal that the committee take up the matter. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, made a promise. I mentioned another promise last week about the Galway hospice. Promises must mean something. A commitment...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ..., it has been a ringing endorsement of denominational education and much more than the Government has been willing to acknowledge. The number of people who either do not want a wider choice of patronage or who would not avail of it themselves is in all cases far in excess of those who would seek alternative patronage models in their areas. It generally runs at a ratio of 60:40 or 2:1 and...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Rónán Mullen: ...of a bias in favour of left wing, or what he calls centre left, viewpoints. I also notice a tendency in the comments of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, to let RTE off the hook, so to speak. I do not think it was satisfactory that Deputy Rabbitte should go to the other extreme and ridicule the notion that one would have heads on plates so...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Rónán Mullen: ...consequences. When people make a complaint to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the most the person will get from RTE is a neutral acknowledgement of the complaint. Last night we saw that Pat Kenny himself did not refer to the findings. It was read out in a neutral monotone, which is not good enough, given the public service money involved.

Seanad: Gender-Based Violence: Motion (26 Oct 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...of the Feminists for Life organisation, who has done much good work in raising awareness of issues relating to the topic under discussion. I heard Ms Foster and Jill Filipovic on "Today with Pat Kenny" yesterday and I thought it was wonderful to see such a coming together of minds, with people making common cause despite major philosophical disagreement on the issue of abortion generally....

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...the Minister, Deputy Shatter, not in his personal capacity, but in his capacity as the responsible Minister. Senator Bacik may be interested in this point as well. Was it the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, or some other Labour Party Minister who warned the Bar Council or members of the Bar Council that it would go to their disadvantage and that Labour Ministers-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...of what the Government proposes to do about bonuses paid to other staff in these companies. We have it from the office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, that there is no tradition of Government intervention in the fixing of salaries for staff other than chief executive officers. However, by the same token, there is no tradition of the...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (15 Jun 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...ageing population, and it was felt that to encourage this saving, the tax system should contain some incentives. For all classes of people, saving for the future became common, and at the time we patted ourselves on the back for avoiding the trap into which other nations with older populations had fallen. Now, circumstances have changed and rather than a pensions time-bomb, we face the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...charged for water thereafter. Senators will be familiar with the old phrase about it being Saturday night and not a child in the house washed. Having listened to the discussion on the "Today with Pat Kenny" programme today, one would be left wondering whether some families, including larger ones, would be able to afford to wash their children. In the context of water metering, which is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2009)

Rónán Mullen: ...of family life, have very much to say on the current crisis in which families are at their wits' end dealing with debt. In so far as the discussion between Deputy Kieran O'Donnell and Mr. Pat Farrell on the rules-based approach to banking is concerned, it is very clear that we need rules. This goes back to Saint Thomas Aquinas and even Aristotle in that coercion was sometimes believed to...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Rónán Mullen: ...areas and some seriously good causes. We have had very good debates in this House on stem cell research. Professor Colin McGuckin, a very well-regarded stem cell researcher, called today on the Pat Kenny programme on RTE for a public-private initiative to store umbilical chord blood. This would be a worthy topic for discussion in this House given that chord blood provides a one in four...