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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and information. I have a fair few questions that I will try to get in. I know we have a limited amount of time, but we might get back in for a second round. I will list the questions first and let the witnesses come back in. In his opening statement, the Minister mentioned that increasing referrals to Tusla can be considered in part due to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach, I have a few all right. I have lots. I want to pick up on something related to Senator Seery Kearney's contributions teasing out the social worker piece and what happens when there is an unallocated child, especially if that unallocation happens while her or she is in care. It is hard for me to comprehend the idea of the highest need, when the fact is the person...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Is there potential that such an approach could come up against the same obstacles as the youth work apprenticeships seem to be facing with respect to who funds the placements? An apprenticeship is not a role already recognised in the budget of an organisation or agency, so there would need to be increased funding. I am aware that the youth work apprenticeship scheme is coming up against...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: A salary.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Okay. I thank the Minister.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Mr. Brophy.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: For the official record, Vivian Guerin is a man.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I said it more for the transcribers.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Gallagher for the contribution. I think of the six areas of concern highlighted by the UN committee and how so many of those, when we think of the earlier conversation regarding children in care, are about how we place them within families that are vulnerable and then place those families within communities that are struggling. We must look at the systemic failure relating to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank our guests very much for their contributions today. If it is okay with the two speakers, I will ask all my questions first and then hand over to them if they want to take note of them. Professor Boer mentioned in his submission that in some neighbourhoods, assisted deaths account for 15% to 20% of all deaths. My first question is about whether there is something that defines them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am not sure I would like the answers to my questions to come from Senator Mullen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, it does.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. The concerns I intend to lay out in my contribution today have been well aired by many of our colleagues in the Dáil and by representatives from civil society and the wider public throughout the course of the debate on the Bill. The concerns that have been raised about privacy, fundamental rights and civil liberties are legitimate and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I asked the same question and it was dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I was doing some reading on Exit International's Sarco pods. The Swiss medical review board has given the green light to these pods, although I am not sure what that might mean. Does Mr. Luley or Professor Boer have any insights into the ethics of these pods? I think they are called Sarco suicide pods. Reading about them and looking at pictures of them, it does not seem to be a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It also suggests that artificial intelligence, AI, is being used for the assessment of capacity. It seems very problematic to me to use AI to assess capacity because that removes human interaction.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Taoiseach to the Chamber. Reference was made to the decrease in poverty rates during the pandemic. It is understood that decrease in child poverty rates was linked to the economic measures during the pandemic. According to Central Statistics Office, CSO, data, there were 671,000 people living in poverty in 2022. Of them, approximately 188,000 were children, while an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their contributions. I will ask all my questions now. I would like the delegates to note them rather answer each as it is asked. The first question I have, for Dr. McKeown O'Donovan, is about value. She mentioned the value of a very short period of life, the life that is left. When considering the intrinsic value of life, can we somehow consider it to be different...