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

Lynn Ruane: What has been captured concisely by the Senator is exactly how I am struggling to separate the county home from the maternity services. Even though other people may have received adequate care, I do not think they can be separated. If a certain administration or facility has agreed to allow a county home within its site, well then it is the county home. You may have been on a ward, and...

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

Lynn Ruane: I will finish on this.

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

Lynn Ruane: I hear the Minister saying that the mere fact of being in the maternity services - I am paraphrasing so correct me if needs be - is not recognition that a woman was in the county home, unless she was in the county home. I am saying the recognition happens later on. Later on, we are saying that the circumstance of being in the county home, and a woman may have happened to be transferred...

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

Lynn Ruane: Yes, exactly.

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

Lynn Ruane: Did you ever hear the question, "What is a university?". You then point at the university and ask whether it is the university. There are different schools within it, and different this and that. It feels like that in respect of this matter. What is the mother and baby home? What is the county home? I am struggling with the fact there will be women who may not have slept in a county...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. Most of my contribution will probably be to Dr. Mulligan. Even though we are here in respect of those constitutional questions, she has experience in the medical law side of things. I wish to utilise her time here rather than being repetitive on some of the stuff we have already established. I am beginning to think about the more nitty-gritty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: But if a person makes the decision while he or she has full-on dementia but has moments of clarity, how likely is it that anybody is actually going to meet the person's needs because they will say the person has not got the full capacity to make that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have one or two follow-up questions for a additional information. In relation to mental illness and mental pain and suffering, am I right in saying that, from a medical law perspective, suffering is not just physical pain? Are they seen as equal or is there still some sort of disparity, whether it be written within law or a cultural position, that somehow one is more legitimate than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: On people leaving the country, why would the Garda intercept in some cases and not others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If I may add to that, is there a difference between someone being told they are a burden and not wanting to live as a burden? It could be someone positively affirming they do not want to be a burden regardless of whether people in their lives perceive them as such. They two very different things. One is where someone is making a decision on the basis of something being a threat to their...

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on provision of additional payments to those who experienced forced family separation 19. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to make provision for supplementary payments, in addition to any...

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

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 14 calls for a report after 12 months on the potential for additional payments to be made available under the scheme for those who experienced forced family separation. We had to resubmit this Committee Stage amendment with a new timeframe of 12 months. Senator Higgins argued at length on the issue of forced family separation on Committee Stage but it is important that I make...

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

Lynn Ruane: I will make a few brief points. Nearly all that can be said on the issue has been said, but I will pick up on a few small points. The forced family separation piece is not only about people giving evidence to get additional payments. Some people, despite not being registered as having been in the county home for one night, still experienced forced family separation because of these...

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Report on extension of eligibility for general payment under Scheme 19.(1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend eligibility under section 18(1)for a general payment to all relevant persons who were...

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

Lynn Ruane: As the Minister knows, we are not allowed to amend the Bill to directly delete the minimum 180-day residency requirement for survivors to qualify for general payment under the scheme. As a compromise, this amendment No. 15 once again calls for a report on the potential to remove the 180-day residency requirement. It also calls for the Minister to examine how many applied to the scheme...

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

Lynn Ruane: With regard to evidence, for many of us, it is not about evidence and creating some sort of really difficult system for people, it is also about recognition of their testimony. It goes without saying that there will be people when they apply, no matter what the application processes look like, who will want to continue to tell what happened to them. Sometimes, that alone is evidence enough...

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on extension of eligibility for work-related payments under Scheme 19.(1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend eligibility under section 18(3) for a work-related payment to all...

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

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 17: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on extension of eligibility for provision without charge of health services under Scheme 19.(1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend eligibility under section 18(4) for provision...

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on recognition of experiences of mixed-race children 19. (1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend the Scheme to recognise the experiences of mixed-race children in Irish institutions....