Results 201-220 of 3,697 for speaker:Lynn Ruane
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: At the end of the day we are dealing with an advocacy body.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: The common denominator is Caranua. I get it daily and sometimes three and four times a day. I can send you correspondence, Chairman. My office is filled with it. These are people who are struggling to deal with Caranua. In fact, I would say that Caranua is reinforcing some of the trauma that the State originally placed on them. Ms Higgins should really consider how Caranua does business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Does that mean that the new premises would be very accessible in terms of survivors being able to interact with Caranua and call in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Obviously, the communication issue regarding email and phone calls has been very difficult so a face-to-face service would probably solve some of that and give some sort of access.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Through the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Would that not be counterproductive in the sense that the longer Caranua continues to spend on administrative costs, the more it will eat into the fund anyway so it will take away from the people who are looking for a repeat application or above the €15,000? The longer it goes on where Caranua is waiting for new applicants, the more it is eating into the fund anyway be it through the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Would that remove the limit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Through the Chair, it is just to stay on point with what was spoken about at the time. In respect of the Towards Healing contract, is it true that Towards Healing is a religious-run service? Is anything taken into account when we look at contracts? It relates to money taken out of a religious order for survivors being paid back in through a contract with a religious organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: I think what I was saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: It was directed at me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: This is the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, investment fund, so if there are other accounts-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Has Deputy Connolly finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: They are very important questions and I am willing to forgo my opportunity to speak. I have only one question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: I have one question, and it relates to the last question asked by Deputy Connolly. My concern is about the letters regarding their right to appeal and the number of people that received them. As the witnesses know the names of the survivors to whom those letters were sent, can they give a commitment to write to all of them informing them of their right to appeal and the process due to them?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: Effectively, however, if someone is being left in limbo-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: I refer to the live applications and the prioritisation. People are being prioritised based on new applicants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: The applications from the older applications are not being assessed. They are being left in limbo because of the prioritisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: In a sense, it is an indirect decision because the ongoing needs of that person are not being met and the fund was set up to meet their ongoing needs. If their application is being put on the long finger, their needs might be immediate, which means they are not being assessed on the merits of their application. They are being assessed on prioritisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: I have a case of a 75 year old woman who I will not name. She sought help for a hip replacement and dental care and she is still trying to communicate with Caranua to get it to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Lynn Ruane: I should not have to do that. It should work.