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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will speak to amendment No. 8 first. This is a simple amendment which seeks to include a specific reference to equality matters and the need for equality to be upheld within the principles of policing. As drafted, the Bill provides that policing services are to be provided "in a manner that protects and vindicates human rights". This is a welcome provision but would be made stronger...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I understand that the principles may be there but I sometimes wonder, in a collective sense, where the ideology is in respect of the community. We can say "community" but there is still a separation that happens. For me, it is about putting on the record that there cannot be a division of what that is and is not. Beyond that, while the policing principles have been expanded to include...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 8: In page 23, line 28, after “rights” to insert “and upholds equality”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 23, line 29, after “the” to insert “fair,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 10: In page 23, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(i) a whole of community response to public safety,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 11: In page 23, line 31, after “the” where it firstly occurs to insert “trust,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 12: In page 25, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(d) preserving safety and security in our communities,”. Amendment No. 12 seeks to provide an additional function for An Garda Síochána under the Bill to provide policing services with the objective of preserving safety in our communities. As drafted, the relevant section does...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 13: In page 25, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(g) preventing harm to classes of persons who are disadvantaged by reference to the following factors: (i) socio-economic status; (ii) gender; (iii) civil status; (iv) family status; (v) sexual orientation; (vi) religious belief; (vii) age; (viii) disability; (ix) race, including...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 25, line 11, to delete “criminals” and substitute “individuals who have engaged in criminality”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 16: "In page 25, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(i) facilitating restorative justice, and”."

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 17: In page 25, line 13, to delete “and improving road safety”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 18: In page 25, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(j) improving road safety.”.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I agree with Senator Moynihan's comments about the importance of protecting people’s home addresses. The Minister of State is welcome to the House. There has been much discussion about the role of the new Electoral Commission in devising these boundaries. I will not rehash what has been said. I will be tabling amendments on Committee Stage which do not relate to the schedule but to...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am sorry to interrupt but if you have never been elected, you will have not a constituency office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. On Monday, a man in the prison system who has been both a victim of violence throughout his life, including in his childhood, and a perpetrator of violence, which led him to the prison system, directed me to somebody I had not previously come across in my work, although the Minister might have done so. His name is Professor James Gilligan. I have spent a lot of time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In every academic study, poverty is indicated as the main driver of violence and crime. Ending poverty does not begin at eight or nine; it is a societal thing. Keeping that in mind, I understand the interventions to which the Minister refers, but the whole picture shows that the narrower the gap between rich and poor in a country, the fewer instances of violence and crime there. What,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Regarding the far right, there is a huge number of historical studies going back to French fascism. I am not a French speaker but Maurice Bardèche - however you pronounce his name – defined himself as a Fascist writer. He is dead now but in the sixties he wrote a book and explained exactly what right wing is because he was talking about himself quite proudly. The definitions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is the problem.