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

Rónán Mullen: Well where there is any harassment of women, shame on those involved in it but the person who pays the biggest price for what is going on here is the unborn child, who does not get to see the light of day. I appeal to people to rediscover their sense of compassion and human fraternity around that issue.

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

Rónán Mullen: Can I ask for the assistance of the of the secretariat? If I press this amendment in the way I have just done, may I resubmit it for Report Stage?

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

Rónán Mullen: So, I cannot resubmit it. That accords with my reflection. I thank the Chair.

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, line 19, after “practitioner” to insert the following: “(other than a general practitioner who has notified the Minister that the practitioner does not wish the premises at which he or she provides healthcare services to be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a relevant healthcare premises)”. This amendment refers...

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

Rónán Mullen: I am not surprised the Minister is not engaging with it but it leaves the problem that there may very well be GPs providing, or not providing, abortions who are being used to stand up activism involving the pressurising of gardaí to pressurise decent people making a reasonable point. I have already been very critical of the cavalier approach being taken to freedom of expression in our...

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

Rónán Mullen: I will withdraw it with a view to possibly bringing it forward, either in the same or another form, on Report Stage.

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, lines 10 and 11, to delete “within 100 metres of an entrance to either House of the Oireachtas”. I welcome the Minister back. I want to reiterate, for the avoidance of doubt and given that this is an issue that can be contentious - as I said earlier on, it is a life-and-death issue - that though I have the harshest of criticism for the...

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

Rónán Mullen: Okay, I will get on with the point.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am not sure I would call it progress but I will report it anyway.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (22 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: The European Court of Justice will not have to give any decisions for the rest of the month.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I also welcome the students from St. Tiernan's and I encourage the fifth and sixth years there to take part in our annual Oireachtas essay competition - oireachtasessay.ie. They could win €1,000 for the best essay in Irish or English so I look forward to seeing their entries. I also welcome the Estonian ambassador. Taking the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn and visiting the Irish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I join Senators in extending my sincere condolences to the family of Michael O'Regan, The Irish Timesand his friends and colleagues in journalism. May eternal rest be granted to him. Michael was a very pleasant man and it was always nice to deal with him. He had a lovely voice and interesting things to say. Like every good journalist, it was not just a matter of him telling war stories....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Can I not get it now?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, it is standard.It is not genuine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: You need to beat them at both tiers.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I thank Senator Chambers.

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The phrase "An Irish solution to an Irish problem" is in many ways much abused. Any derision about it denies our capacity for ingenuity and creativeness when it comes to trying to deal with certain problems that inevitably arise in Government and administration from time to time. Far from offering us even an Irish solution to an Irish problem...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: -----whether it is farmers worried about forestry, turf cutters or people who wonder at the amazing expectations other people have for cars on the road by a certain date, for certain amounts of carbon sequestration or for the end of fossil fuels, which we would all like but which cannot be achieved easily or in the short term. It would be timely for Green Party members in government to show...