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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That is always a positive, considering the pile of stages.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That is great. I thank Ms Duggan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Do we not get to choose, as a committee, what way we do pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach and Deputy O'Callaghan. Obviously, this is a very important topic. Unfortunately, I am all too familiar with the impact of knife crime from my own life experiences from both ends - both in terms of the loss of life and in terms of people quite close to me who regretted carrying knives at a young age and their use. I will refrain from going into that but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Was it amnesties and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Community sanctions and stuff.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I second the motion. In our thousands and in our millions we are all Palestinian. I once read that humans are wired for interconnectedness and interdependence and not for conflict or killing each other. This is why the chant, in our thousands and in our millions we are all Palestinians, deeply resonates with me and what I believe is the essence of what it means to be human. Right now we...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Inspections already happen.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The final part is the most important part there. The groups involved felt their analysis had been done and then there had been radio silence rather than a response to it. The insight that those with the expertise required to review the findings are currently reviewing them is helpful. Will the Minister of State relay to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, that it might be helpful if he gave an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Okay. Thank you.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The site at Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, County Tipperary, was home to one of Ireland's most infamous mother and baby homes, operational from 1931 to 1969. During this time, 6,414 women were admitted and 6,079 children were born there. Within two years of it opening, it was acknowledged that there was a problem with infant mortality and the congregation sent a representative to investigate...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will be brief and refrain from making many contributions until we get to Committee Stage. The message is not at all that surrogacy is great, but that surrogacy is unfortunately necessary for some people. It is about the necessity of surrogacy so some people can enjoy a family life in they way they intended to. There is also sometimes a misunderstanding of what altruism means....

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will go straight to questions from the members and first up is Senator Mary Fitzpatrick.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Sorry, I will have to move on. I am sure there will be a point to come back in.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I acknowledge that Senators O’Hara and Seery Kearney are online and listening in but, given their location, they will not be able to contribute. I call Deputy Kenny, who is visiting the committee.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will move on. I think we will go into a second round but I want to ask a few questions before we do. There are lots of conversations there and from my contribution I would rather focus on recommendation No. 17. When we look at the caveats relating to the citizens' assembly and what it laid out, it is really about understanding the assembly's idea of what decriminalisation actually is and...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Does that still involve a garda stopping and searching you, finding you are in possession, and him deciding whether you need diversion? The whole threat of stop and search is criminalisation back a step because it still involves policing. Should you only be stopped and searched if there is suspicion around whether you are selling drugs or involved in the sale and supply? A person who is on...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: There is the issue. Even in the old understanding from Portugal, which is 20 years old, and they would see their decriminalisation model now as completely outdated, when we look at the fact there would be even later sanctions, and even though addiction does not work that way, it is still criminalising addiction but actually decriminalising personal drug use. If you are a recreational drug...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Also, in the current system, the 2017 proposal the Department is saying it is running out, which is an adult caution system, would the witnesses also see that as not being decriminalisation, that it is a case that we are going to temporarily say it is a health issue and then we are going say it is not a health issue but a criminal issue?