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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am speaking about the birth parent.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Can I clarify another thing for my own understanding? Is the five to three years only in cases where there is no hope of family reunification?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Can the parent still be active in that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have one more question. A few years ago, there was an attempt within the adoption part of the legislation to remove the consent of the parent to enable the foster parents adopting a child. The removal of that consent could be applied for through the court. At the time, an intervention was made. I submitted an amendment stating that the family would need support. There was back and...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What about the point on independent advice being on a legislative footing?

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State. I second the Bill. I thank Senator Higgins and our colleagues in the Civil Engagement Group and also the staff in our office for their work in developing this legislation. The Bill interestingly captures much of the work the Civil Engagement Group has strived to undertake on electoral reform since the group's inception. Much of the debate today will be...

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their submissions. I have a few questions. I will go through them all first and the representatives might take notes. Many of the questions are for the representatives from EPIC but I will highlight those that are not. Some of Deputy Sherlock’s questions touched on points I want to make about independent advocacy. There is a lot of talk about ensuring the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Basically, if we had independent advocacy, it would mean it would be spread across all kids-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: -----whereas now it is only if they seek it out through EPIC.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, those are the most important areas. They are the issues I should loop back to. Hopefully, I will be back in time. The more important thing is that they will be on the transcript.

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

Lynn Ruane: I am delighted to be in the Chamber this evening to second Senator Higgins’s Bill. I want to begin by commending Senator Higgins and her staff, Sárán Fogarty and Ciara Gaynor, on their work in developing this Bill. We are very fortunate to have Senator Higgins and her team in the Oireachtas, given the work they have undertaken in developing their own legislative solutions...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am asking about the position if a person is not registered to access some of the State supports. I have done a lot of work on spent convictions and it always creeps into my head when I think of some who may fear registering because of a past conviction, especially in working-class communities that have been over-policed to a high degree. The conviction may be minor and would not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do. We will probably discuss some of the areas I wish to touch on, which include the in camerarule - that has been addressed - the interpretation of in loco parentis, and the joint protocol and its potential relationship to the duty to co-operate. If I am not here for that discussion, I apologise.

Seanad: Disregard of Certain Criminal Records of Gay Men: Motion (17 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I stress how welcome this motion is and express the Civil Engagement Group’s full support for it. I do not want to endlessly repeat comments that have been made so I will echo the gratitude expressed to those people who, over decades, brought us to this point, although I will not namecheck them all again. The motion has many different strands about the history of criminalisation of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for joining us in the Chamber. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important omnibus Bill. I begin by commending the Ministers, Deputy Harris and Deputy McEntee, on the hard work they have undertaken on addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland, elements of which are tackled within certain sections of this Bill. While I welcome many of the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is for adult prisons.