Issue of Gendercide needs to be highlighted and condemned
We are here to talk about one of the most horrific human rights abuses in the world and perhaps the most widespread form of violent anti-female discrimination. It is called “gendercide”, a term coined...
View ArticleDisability cuts in Budget/ Media coverage on abortion
Why the silence? Is this another example of a bias in our media whereby certain issues are deemed to be worthy of coverage but the near death of an Irish woman as a consequence of an abortion in...
View ArticleMedia standards/ Catholics in Civil Service
This is about attitudes to different groups and sectors in our society. Political parties, like the media, need to show responsibility in their public utterances. That is why this is a relevant issue...
View ArticleDebate on media standards urgently needed
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...
View ArticleParents' wishes count on denominational schools
The reason for the enduring support for denominational schools is that tens of thousands of parents, including many who wouldn’t regard themselves as particularly religious, want something more than...
View ArticleWater charges/ Abortion debate
I refer to an issue arising in the other House this evening, which prompts a call from me for a debate on a sensitive issue. For the first time, legislation is being introduced in the other House to...
View ArticleEmployment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012
The purpose of the Bill is to change a section of legislation that allows religious education or medical institutions to take action that is reasonably necessary to prevent a prospective employee from...
View ArticleStatute Law Revision Bill 2012
For these reasons I commend the Bill but question the value of an exercise focused on repealing or retaining pre-1922 statutes when the post-1922 Statute Book is in such a poor and inaccessible state.
View ArticleDisclosure of Overpayments Bill 2012
As I have outlined, this Bill sets out to address a real and serious need for probity in these areas of financial transactions. It nonetheless avoids introducing onerous burdens which would only...
View ArticleConcern over HSE report on Welfare of Children in Roscommon
The extent of the challenges society around child protection, particularly in the Roscommon area, was startling and frightening, and if it is true for Roscommon then it is true for other areas also”....
View ArticleGalway Home owners and unpaid developers levies
The possible billing of 260 Galway City residents by Galway City Council for almost €5000 each was raised during a sitting of the Seanad on Tuesday 19th February 2013 by Independent Senator Ronan...
View ArticleCall for debate on Surrogacy
Rónán called for a debate about the issue of surrogacy on 12th March, 2013. The Seanad should not \"wait for the Governments\' proposals\" but should examine the topic itself in a detailed and careful...
View ArticleDon\'t penalise parents for paying school fees
Ronán supported a debate on the funding of fee-paying schools, he told the Seanad on 12th March 2013. Referring to the McCarthy report which recommends that classrooms have a pupil-teacher ratio of...
View ArticleRestorative Justice
I have long believed in the importance of restorative justice processes as an alternative to prison. Currently the justice system is failing to deliver. It continues to lock up the poor and the...
View ArticleCuts to Galway & Roscommon Housing Aid
Senator Rónán Mullen raised concerns over cuts to housing aid in counties Galway and Roscommon, where in Galway alone €750,000 is to be cut in housing aid for the elderly and disabled persons.“There...
View ArticleGetting serious about suicide
Paying tribute to the late Donal Walsh who had bravely faced a terminal illness while at the same time embracing life to the full, Rónán called for a greater public commitment to tackling the problem...
View ArticleMinister pressed to lift school barriers to children with special education...
People face a double disadvantage in life if their economic prospects are reduced both by disability status and by lower levels of education, Senator Rónán Mullen said this evening.
View ArticleLabour Party will be surprised at Varadkar’s abortion statement
People in the Labour Party would be surprised at the statement by the Minister Leo Varadkar that pro-life politicians voting against the Government’s abortion legislation would be ‘proven wrong by...
View ArticleSenator Mullen calls on Government to explain failure to draw down Euro...
Independent NUI Senator Ronan Mullen today called on the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD to explain why the West and North West of Ireland had not availed of funding set...
View ArticleMinister accepts Mullen contention of mortgage law gap
The Minister for Housing, Jan O’Sullivan TD, this evening accepted a contention by Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen that there was a gap in the law affecting tenants where banks had appointed...
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