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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their contributions so far. My first questions are geared towards whichever of the representatives of Voice of Vision Impairment wishes to speak to them. The AI Act prohibits the use of AI systems that threaten fundamental rights, which we have touched on, or exploit vulnerabilities such as disability. The national artificial intelligence office is responsible for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Would Ms Apaza Machaca agree that beyond surveys and consultations, there should be a role for DPOs and other civil society organisations at the level of the AI advisory council or else the artificial intelligence office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Apaza Machaca. Everyone has mentioned GDPR. I think VVI described the vulnerability of disabled people when it comes to their personal data as discrimination on steroids. What is the consensus on understanding how data is being collected and used? Should this committee and organisations that are representative of people with disabilities have a larger focus on understanding and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: How can we potentially differentiate between data on one hand to enhance accessibility and on the other data that can potentially leave a person vulnerable to the things Ms Apaza Machaca spoke about? Does she think that transparency and understanding will help us differentiate between those two?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. I am a huge supporter of each group's work and I am very appreciative of it. I join with the Chair in acknowledging the death of that woman's daughter and that child's mother. I extend our sympathies. It shows the complexion of life for many families. Before I even ask any questions, I caveat that there are many families who will continue to...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I am speaking on the defamation Bill in the Seanad so I apologise if I have to leave; I will obviously be in and out.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach. My question is brief. I thank Ms Dunne for emphasising the refuge aspect. I am very aware of refuges turning women away if there is an intimation of substance use, especially if the women have been referred by a local drugs service. This referral comes with assumptions. Turning the woman away is removing her capacity to ask for help even at local level if it is...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Not stigmatise those in care by way of correlation.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Exactly.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Grand. I wanted to tease it out because I thought that was what Mr. Stanley meant. The point he made originally stood out to me because, if we are to call for bespoke responses, it is about acknowledging the connection between one thing and the other. That is super helpful. I thank Mr. Stanley.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Sometimes, personalities come into the fray.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Some family members have even been refused because two same-sex children would have to share a room, yet council policy is to give housing on the basis of same-sex children sharing a room. There is a very classist undertone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: I very much agree with Deputy Gannon in this regard for many reasons, and not only the uncertainties we are discussing. Under the general scheme, the Minister can enter contracts for services related to any of his functions under the Act. This means that there is no guarantee that detention facilities or designated asylum border facilities under head 123 will be State-led. What I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: If that is the case, is somebody's movement is prohibited, how do we propose to prohibit that movement? Are we saying there will be more public service prisons to detain people who do not have movement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: We have here something that has to be in place by July 2026, yet we do not know how people will be held, where people will be held and who will run the facilities. We are carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on something that is quite fictional in a sense. Do the witnesses have any concerns about how detention will play out? We have the places of detention Bill and the Optional Protocol...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: There is no inspector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: In terms of the presumption of minority, the Department mentioned a multidisciplinary approach to assessing the age of a minor. Were those involved in child protection consulted as part of that definition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: What preferred process is Tusla communicating to the Department that it would hope to see as the definition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)
Lynn Ruane: Does IHREC have any view on the taking of biometric data from children?