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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 19: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on provision of additional payments to those who experienced medical experimentation 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Department of Justice (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am the first non-legal person, or person who has not studied law, to speak. I feel as though I have just walked into the wrong classroom or something. I am trying to grasp the language and how we are speaking about the subject. I have a few questions and perhaps some of them may seem a bit basic given where the conversation has been, but it is just so I can fully understand. As I see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Department of Justice (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As an aside to that, I wonder also about the bodies corporate and the public authorities piece. In reading Ireland's anti-SLAPP network submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, in head 4 under serious harm in relation to bodies corporate and then again in head 5 in relation to public authorities, they recommend that public authorities should be prevented from bringing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses. It is very hard not to get caught up in concepts. There are these constant dilemmas and contradictions and all these things to try to work out, which shows how complex some of these conversations are. I am getting stuck a little on capacity and consent. The same understanding of it does not seem to apply when we move into different scenarios. Do consent and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have two questions. Much of the debate on capacity has mostly considered mental capacity and how that can change. However, there is also physical capacity in terms of something progressing that affects someone's physical capacity to be able to see through their decision, say, a person who regularly insisted on assisted dying having the lack of physical capacity to see through the decision...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. I will hone in a little, because we will probably have a second round, for the first round on the age-disputed minors and the idea of the benefit-of-doubt principle. I have some idea of the direction in which it goes. The International Protection Office, IPO, holds up the determination that it is disputed whether somebody is a child. As far as I...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is involved? I am wondering what the assessment team makes of it.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am struggling a little with regard to a social history. First, culturally, people's social histories can be so complex and traumatic that they appear as adults well before their time with regard to the things they have endured and experienced. From where has the mechanism that determines this is the best way to do it come? I had a child at 15. What if I fled to a country and said I had...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will return to our earlier conversation, for my own clarity. When we sit down to make recommendations I want to be sure that what I am thinking of is relevant in terms of the report that will be written. I will ask some clarifying questions. This question was potentially asked at a different committee, but I cannot remember the answer. If a potentially disputed unaccompanied minor,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: They need to have spent 12 months in the care of the State. Let us look at a scenario where an disputed unaccompanied minor, a girl for example, has spent ten months and time is ticking down where she is not in the care of the State. It is then recognised that she is a minor.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It will be backdated.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: These are the little things I need to make sure of. What else is backdated? Let us look at access to education, and at the ability of somebody who should have been in fourth year, fifth year or sixth year. Time is ticking on for him or her. In reality he or she is going back to school as an adult. If he or she cannot go to school as a 16-year-old or 17-year-old and then turns 18, we are...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In that scenario we are saying that adult age is appropriate in a school setting.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is just a discrepancy, as I am pointing out. I want to go back to the medical assessment. The medical assessment margin of error is only two years. It is very small. If we are saying that a 17-year-old could potentially be a 19-year-old according to the medical assessment, we are already allowing 19-year-olds in youth settings, even in youth work. The youth work provisions also go...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In reality, that margin of error is quite small, unless you are in a shared room and you might need some safeguards in place. Where the margin of error does not matter is in the cases that have been put forward of the 15-year-old or 16-year-old. The margin of error is two years, so he or she is still under age. It only really comes into play as a questionable metric if we are looking at...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Should we have medicals for those cases? Regardless of whether she is 17, she is still a minor.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The two years of error would differentiate that. They are either 23 or 27.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The legislative provision that is required-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I understand why the witnesses say they are not doing it, but I am trying to get to the crux of the cases and to determine where we probably should be using them. Reference has been made to the backdated piece. The backdating of care has been discussed, but other services that may have gone awry during that time include education, the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In the interim, while the services are trying to figure out all the stuff around the age assessment, is Safetynet suggesting that there be a third option for those whose age is disputed? Obviously it is not adult accommodation and it is not accommodation with relatively young minors, but some sort of in-between process where they are still treated as minors but with a question mark. They...