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Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Today I want to raise two separate but interrelated issues. It is international women's week. However, throughout the whole year, we talk about domestic violence. We constantly see articles and news reports online about the number of women who have died in the country. What I am facing at the moment in terms of supporting women is that it is not only about safety, but the decisions that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate that. It teases out the difference between the evaluation and the consultation. I have some queries that I will follow up on with the Minister of State regarding the consultation, as some people felt that the Department was very top down instead of asking the community and inviting people in, so the community and voluntary sectors did not get to set the parameters of what that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Acting Chairperson. I thank the Minister of State for being here. I am sure we will see a lot of each other over the next four years. I know she is aware this is an issue and an area I have focused on throughout not only my legislative career but also by working in addiction services since the age of 17. When I am not in the Chamber, I am still very much involved with...

Seanad: Community Safety: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This is an important topic to discuss. Over the past year or two, I have been lucky enough to visit some violence intervention programmes in Newark in the United States. There are some amazing initiatives elsewhere. We do not need to recreate the wheel when we consider violence intervention, specifically. Ireland can look to Scotland and some of the initiatives in the United States and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I ask that we make representations to the Taoiseach and other Government members on the commitment in the programme for Government to re-establish the Joint Committee on Drugs Use. The committee did a huge body of work before it dissolved due to an election. We produced an interim report before we finished on 24 October 2024. All parties and none fully agreed to all the recommendations in...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I will be brief. I wish the two candidates well. My comments are not personal to anyone at all. They are more a reflection of what my colleague from Sinn Féin said about the first test of fairness and justice. It is also the first test of working collaboratively because working collaboratively does not only happen with the scraps at the bottom. It also...

Seanad: Cathaoirleach a Thoghadh - Election of Cathaoirleach (12 Feb 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his election. In his first term he worked to open up the Seanad, which is something I really respected, by bringing voices in. People voted for a reform of the Seanad, and while we wait on that, we ourselves must reform how we engage in the Seanad and do our roles even if it is in the restricted manner it is. While I fully respect people finding ways...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Lynn Ruane: As with everyone else, I thank the staff, my colleagues and everybody involved in keeping the Houses running. However, I must be honest. Halfway through this term I became somewhat disillusioned with politics and with where power is concentrated and where it flows. I had to a lot of soul searching to re-establish the idea that politics can work, although it must look radically different...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses very much for their presentations. Obviously, 90% of those here are men. That is usually seen as a negative thing but it is a very positive thing when it comes to working with young men, especially in the communities we work in. It is especially positive to see working-class men who are experts not only because of their profession and education, but because of their...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: These are really simple tools but they bring many people in. It is really amazing work. Mr. Ducque has spoken about people possibly being too far gone and has asked how you can compete with a wage of €2,500. You cannot. What are the witnesses' thoughts on that point? There is a tension between social policy and legal policy. There is then another piece in between, an intervention...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: There were some great conversations. Thinking of that informal setting, if you back to Ancient Greece, that is how philosophers developed all their big ideas, standing on the street talking and people gathering around and listening. They are not new ideas but there was a professionalisation and they "middle-class-ified" our communities by seeing it as an opportunity to work or for a career....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Prison Service (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I much prefer to have conversations such as this with the appropriate Minister, but I recognise that in his time as Chair of the justice committee the Minister of State will understand the issues I will speak about. I am not over-exaggerating the point when I say that the current situation in Irish prisons is not only dangerous but is a matter of life and death. The overcrowding situation...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Prison Service (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Unfortunately, I do not think they are. There are four paragraphs from the Minister on more prison places but not reducing the need for prisons in the first place. That is so short-sighted. It lacks analysis, nuance, ambition and understanding of the issue where right now, we have a situation where the prison is completely overcrowded. It is not able to operate at the capacity it would...

Seanad: Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to mark the legislation coming back into the Chamber today. The Minister said at the committee that he would move heaven and earth and I was still looking at him sceptically. I wish to now take that back.

Seanad: Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: As he can understand, when things are out of your power, when you have spent so long working on something and then hand it over and when you have to give over and suspend all power over or hand in what happens next, it is difficult. As it is such groundbreaking legislation, there was always a concern there would be enough pushback on it for it not to happen. I wish to acknowledge the...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: We have apologies from Deputy Stanton and Senators O'Hara and Seery Kearney. Deputy Quinlivan is substituting for Deputy Gould. Members will come in and out given they are needed at other meetings. Parliamentary privilege is considered to apply to the utterances of members participating online in a committee meeting where their participation is from within the parliamentary precincts....

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Dr. Kelly. I now invite Mr. Barry McBrien to give his opening statement.