IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage
There is also a reason to prevent overreach.
Rónán Mullen
Rhetoric & votes →On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 25 of 177 decisive votes (0 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
Party over time
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| IND | Independent | 1,687 | 2020-01-21 – 2026-09-23 |
Membership spells on record: IND 2007-07-23–2011-04-25 · IND 2011-05-25–2016-04-24 · IND 2016-03-10–2020-03-29 · IND 2020-03-30–2025-01-29 · IND 2025-01-29–present
Record
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
We might as well talk about amendments, for the benefit of the House, because we do not all have good memories.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I will speak to amendment No. 317, for which I am responsible, and make a few points with regard to what has already been said. I remember when I was in student politics in Galway. I was elected president of the students' union there in 1991. It was for the Minister of the day to officially approve my appointment to the governing body of UCG, as it was. I remember these things took time. As sabbatical officers came and went, year in, year out, it was not always the case that the minute people were elected, their me…
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I apologise.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
With the grouping. It caused me to do much hurried scribbling a few minutes ago.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Amendment No. 317 is not being discussed yet?
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Which brings me to my last point-----
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
How can we believe the Minister when, last week, no one was left in any doubt that he fully supported thorough scrutiny of the many amendments that have been carefully prepared on foot of consultation and contact between Members and legitimate stakeholders? According to his explanation today, he is allowing a process to go ahead without protest that will see the Bill guillotined after a few, very short hours of scrutiny.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
It is without protest from the Minister.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
The Minister has the power to ask and insist that the Bill is not guillotined today. Has he used that power?
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
The Minister has the power to ask it.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
We are in a completely artificial process where we have to slide in important, substantive points relating to other amendments because we know we will not get to them today-----
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
-----and the Minister is asking us to trust the Government. He is the Minister but he is presiding here on behalf of the Government.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
How many amendments does the Acting Chair think that will be by the time he-----
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
-----as a percentage?
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I commend the Acting Chair's spirit of fair play but this is a farce in which the Minister and Government are complicit.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
We probably will not, because we will not get there.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Come on now.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
The Minister is taking the mick now.
IND
2022-07-06 · Seanad
Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
The Minister is not being called a name. We are just not letting our entire-----