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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Regarding the expungement of convictions, it is sometimes an uncomfortable conversation for people to have when we think about cases of say ten-, 11- or 12-year olds who have potentially taken a life. Other convictions will come off a person's record if they do not reoffend on release. As Ms Gomez said, children have greater chances of rehabilitation. However, in certain categories of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Today, I find this Commencement matter a little difficult to think about. Before I came into the Chamber, I got word that one of the families I reference in this have not heard from their three children in Gaza since I met them last week. That mother is Bushra. I met her and her son Mohammed this day last week. There are currently ten families still awaiting reunification with their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: We must be very clear on the exact steps. An article published in The Irish Times yesterday insinuated that no one would be medically evacuated if they did not have a surviving parent to care for them. This is inaccurate. Bushra's three children did not have a surviving parent to evacuate with them. On aiding them on the other side, I do not know how to even begin to imagine a scenario...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I join my colleagues in relation to what happened to the Global Sumud. It is really concerning that there is not more uproar about the targeting of civilian boats in European waters off the coast of Crete. We are meant to be part of a European Union that is supposed to be underpinned by the principles not only of peace but also international law. It is not acceptable that we would allow...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I want to again draw attention to the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is entering its most critical 24 hours on its journey to break the illegal siege of Gaza. Over the past 24 hours, I have been thinking about some of the commentary that has come from some of the countries who have shown support but called it an exclusion zone, saying that the global sumud is entering an exclusion zone, and...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It will be minuscule in comparison to Senator McDowell's. I agree with Senator McDowell's points on discretion. I had some further thoughts about a case from about ten years ago in the UK, which has a similar criminal justice system to ours. I was also thinking about the media or somebody else saying that something happened and they were held liable and brought to court for defamation. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Deputy Leader for the comments at the beginning of the Order of Business. They are welcome. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that after statements, instead of finishing at 1.30 p.m., we have statements from An Taoiseach or the next available senior Minister to update the House on the flotilla and send a message to the families at home who, I am sure, are extremely...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It is very much a kidnapping. The activists are in international waters. They have been taken from international waters.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Kidnapped-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: If somebody came in here and kidnapped me from the Chamber with no charges or without me committing any crime, that would be kidnapping.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: They have been kidnapped in international waters. Israel does not own international waters and the Senator has just used a genocide in Gaza to make political points. Shame on him.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: He is anywhere up to a week behind.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Global Sumud Flotilla: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Leader and the Minister of State for facilitating the discussion and adding this to the schedule today. It is extremely important that we can communicate clearly and be transparent, especially for all of the families who want to know what is going to happen, how their family members are going to be protected and what actions our Government will take to ensure the safe return of...

Seanad: Global Sumud Flotilla: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: A legal observer boat does not go all the way. It looks for human rights violations to a certain point.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise as I will have to leave the meeting for an emergency debate in the Seanad. I hope the witnesses know I support all their work. I hate to have to leave in the middle of a session. It has been incredibly difficult over the past ten years to watch the erosion of community within the area of drug services, drug treatment provision and everything that entails. I remember, while...

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Maybe we can invite the Minister for Health in to discuss the representation at another stage.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I just wanted to get some action before I left the room.

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation): Statements (8 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Before I make two points on the budget, I want to bookend my contribution with something to frame it and keep in mind. Earlier I read a document produced by the Parliamentary Budget Office's economic modelling and policy costing unit that looks at the impact of the budget, including the announced increases in current spending of €6.1 billion, capital spending of €2 billion and...