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

Lynn Ruane: Would some young people be released into homelessness at 18 years of age?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Many of the questions that were asked relate to AI and how decisions are made. I am glad it is still human to human and am hopeful that we never venture into using any sort of algorithms to speed up the asylum process. The information may already be out there and I just have not delved into it enough, but what I am interested in is the idea of safety and safe countries. Ireland deems...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: My office has had some interaction with people from the LGBTQ+ community who went through international protection interviews and have expressed a concern or fear about being able to prove persecution on that ground. In the case of gay men, say, they may be asked questions about whether they have had a gay relationship or whether they have visited or frequented any gay establishments in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Are other factors taken into account? I am not sure whether different factors are weighted or how that might be done. For example, what weight is given to the fact that somebody has not had a partner of the same sex as against the other information they provide? How are those more personal questions weighted against everything else the applicant may be providing to the interviewer?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses.

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

Lynn Ruane: I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. People talk about how long it has taken to deal with this matter but I believe people have been grappling with it since the beginning of time. It is just a case of what happens when you try to legislate for it. It is a matter of life and death and people's decisions. It is quite existential in and of itself. Many of my...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Women Accessing Education, Leadership and Political Roles: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. A few questions came to mind when I was listening to them. What I would love to tease out more, homing in on WCI, is the point about "ensuring political parties run women candidates in a meaningful, serious and supportive way". This is the biggest bugbear of mine. Women are the additional candidate and never the main candidate in many...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Women Accessing Education, Leadership and Political Roles: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Glanville.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I want to extend my condolences to the Coghlan family. I was very saddened to hear of Paul's death. We were very different politically, but when I first met Paul, I think I was trying to break the ice and I went to fist pump him instead of shaking his hand. He kind of ducked for a minute and I had to explain that I was just saying hello. From then on, that was how we greeted each other,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, I have too much to say.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I would rather not.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I join others in expressing my support for amendment No. 1. There is not a huge amount that I can add to what has been said regarding its impact and necessity. The Civil Engagement Group has co-signed that amendment. I wish to speak on Government amendments Nos. 42 and 43, which are in this grouping, tease them out and get some clarification on them. Those two amendments are a partial...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I hear what the Minister is saying, namely that the intention is not to reduce or restrict eligibility in any way shape or form but instead clarify it. However, when I read the Bill I see it differently and have some concerns that it is the opposite. Perhaps that is something we can work out in our conversation. On the addition of the concluding years, I read the briefing document provided...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The thing is that some people who experienced trauma, abuses or forced separation may be officially down in the records as only being there to receive maternity services. There is also how these things are recorded within institutions. They may have been sent to those maternity services against their will at the wish of their family. They may have been forced from their children in the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In relation to the co-location issue, what I am struggling with is the fact that we are talking about hospitals and county homes but they were operating under the same management. Did they not have the same structures and umbrella? Mother and baby homes were stand-alone institutions but what were the structures in county homes? There were two separate institutions operating within the one...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am not sure it has because scenarios keep arising in my mind. We are recognising that the hospital or the maternity wing within the hospital and the county home were one and the same thing in a sense and that they cannot be separated. If someone's time in the maternity services is an extension of her time in the county home, it must be recognised in the other direction as well where...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In teasing out the affidavit piece, later on we will get to how long it takes for the system to respond to applications so we add in another layer. No real timeframe went into the legislation in terms of when people can expect to hear back. Then we add in another step that requires an affidavit. Someone applies, they say that they are registered with maternity services and not with the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In that case I will come back to the co-located sites. We have the mother and baby home aspect. We are saying that the legislation only recognises the mother and baby home aspect. It is based on a person's residency records and not in relation to the hospital that is on that site. Again I go back to the fact that what a person experienced on the hospital site does not have anything to do...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Then we are legislating for experience and we are making them relational. We have situations and then we have circumstances. Circumstances are many within the whole of a situation. What we are then saying is that this legislation is not about mother and baby homes or county homes but rather about situations. That situation is as long as a piece of string. In one sense, we are trying to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: You cannot take a case.