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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: This question is for either Mr O'Neill or Ms Hennessy. It relates to the 1951 convention in the context of non-refoulement and the EU pact. The information provided by the witnesses does not go into how the pact interplays with previous conventions in the context of eroding some of the protections and core principles within those conventions. Will the witnesses comment on what assessment...

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

Lynn Ruane: I am saying they might be able to inform the committee of the practices in other countries and what would cause the least amount of harm. That is very different from telling them to go and create something. It is more of an acknowledgement of their expertise in the area so that we can be more informed as a committee going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...acknowledged that a database has to be used. Faces are identified and then run through a system to measure them against lots of other faces but An Garda Síochána seems to be saying that no reference point is going to be used for facial recognition technology. That does not make very much sense. If anybody has watched the last session, will they use their expertise to clarify...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...and search powers are regularly invoked and, occasionally, abused on the suspicion that an individual may be carrying drugs on their person either for consumption or sale. We know too that Garda personnel are reluctant to let these powers go and that this is a major stumbling block in decriminalising the drug user. Both of these amendments aim to expand the types of data collected,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...all statutory bodies and all have a particular function within that statutory role. I am not saying the members of those bodies do not choose to be there; they commit to the engagement and keep it going. However, the community and voluntary organisations are often the ones working in the services at the coalface and on the front line, whereas the statutory bodies bring a different layer...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...card?” She said that an anniversary card was how long her mam and dad were married and I said it was interesting. I was not sure I recognised that as a thing in the house. My mind began to turn and turn. I used to go into other houses and see the pictures on the wall of people’s mams and dads getting married with wedding dresses and so on. Then I started to ask...

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)

Lynn Ruane: ...to college and when I started out working in the drugs sector, it was not me the school rang; it was my daughter's father or my dad. My dad was at the school gates every day. He was the one who got the phone calls when my daughter was sick, and he was the one she looked for. Why? Because he was providing the care in the mornings and in the afternoons. She had that bond with him. That...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...the last few weeks, and especially after I read the witnesses' presentations, the position I have come to is that I get it now. I get that the safeguards are the other side of it. Then I have to go back to not wanting to delay one in favour of the other because you could be a long time waiting for the State to meet all of those needs before something else comes into play. I have that...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...scheme for young adults leaving care in Ireland. Such a scheme could ensure the security, safety and future prosperity of young adults. I recall a friend of mine, Shane, who died by suicide a few years ago pointed something out to me. I talk about supports in relation to social class and poverty and I remember saying that gaining work experience for people from particular communities or...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the loss of income from employment exacerbated by higher household costs. Survey results from the report also showed that more than two in three, or 68%, of carers said they find it hard to make ends meet, while carers forego income to in order to take on caring responsibilities at home, making themselves economically vulnerable in the process. They are also saving the Exchequer millions...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...their desire to have any sort of treatment or to eat or drink. Senator Mullen spoke about the moral pressure when things change. However, the end result there is that an intervention that goes against all the other principles people put forward on prolonging life like why does this person want to die and the suggestion that if we give them a certain amount of interventions or psycho...

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

Lynn Ruane: .... I thank her for her powerful contribution and for how she delivered it. It was welcome. I have questions for Dr. Hartney and Dr. McDonagh, but I will save them for the second half. I will go to Professor O'Neill first. The reason I want to focus on his contribution is that it is the one I have to challenge myself on in my head as regards the ideas that are put forward. It was...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to take that research as far as we possibly could, given the climate of secrecy. What I am also happy about is that, in talking to the Minister and hearing his contribution today, my Bill does not go far enough in some situations in incorporating the idea of NDAs being pre-emptive, for example, in contracts. It would be great, as we move forward, to be able to continue to tease out some...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...and gave out every now and again, as you do, just to make sure the agenda was moving along. I spent the weekend dipping in and out of the hearings. At some stages, I was trying to figure out what was going on and what was being presented. Then, on Monday morning, I went back over the transcripts again to try to understand the votes. The biggest concern for me at the time was they did...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...and also through the inclusion in the scheme of other institutions in which mixed race children were placed. This was argued at length on Committee Stage.I want to raise it again and put forward some of the key points. Mixed-race survivors have exhausted all possible domestic avenues for redress. There is currently no way for survivors to get justice in Ireland for historical racial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...of, or the right to, life. On a very philosophical level, I struggle to uncouple death from life. Regardless of the naming of an implicit right, the mere fact of being born implies you are going to die, so the right is inherent in the very meaning of being human. For me, although there is nothing specific in this regard, it is a case of how we determine the right time to die. To...

Seanad: Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the work they have undertaken in developing their own legislative solutions to the problems we face in society but also in respect of the diligence with which they scrutinise and offer suggested improvements to Government Bills. The Bill very positively addresses the significantly outdated mandates of Bord na Móna and Coillte to ensure that their remits take into account the need to...

Seanad: Independent Review of the Handling of Past Complaints of Abuse in St John Ambulance Ireland: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ..., Paul Mulholland, Martin Hoey, Mark Pender and the other victims and survivors of the abuse that was perpetrated within St. John Ambulance. It took great courage for victims and survivors to come forward and share their stories. It took real perseverance to arrive at the point where we are in a position to discuss the findings of the report prepared by Dr. Geoffrey Shannon. When I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to come into this Chamber because I felt that all of the efforts, conversations and work of drugs workers and people sharing their stories of how they are impacted by addiction in this country were going nowhere, I am happy to know that the citizens' assembly is going to happen. I am also really hopeful because there are not many subjects on which I will assume authority but I refuse not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...a long time to build what goes into that. What if maintenance is paid to other families? There are many inputs in terms of the liable parent and the assessment of percentage of their income, outgoings, other liable children and stuff like that. It is based on the New Zealand model with additions. The Women's Caucus has agreed to take that on as its first piece of legislative work as...