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Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: It is not about mistrusting the Minister's word.As I said, we never know the landscape and how things will change. Of course I trust the Minister's word but I just do not know what will come after that if the Minister is not there. It is not about trusting the Minister; it is just how things are. We often have in-built reviews and reports in legislation. It is not something new or unusual....

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Instead of a review it should be a consultation process whereby the WRC would take submissions.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 57:In page 33, to delete line 16. I thank the Minister of State for her time in the Seanad this afternoon. I will speak to all the amendments together. I welcome the Bill but I want to express my disappointment at how it has been progressed through the Oireachtas. In the Joint Committee on Education and Skills we decided not to hold pre-legislative scrutiny sessions...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 58:In page 33, line 20, to delete “appropriate.”.” and substitute the following:“appropriate.”,and(c) in subsection (6), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (c):“(d) minimum employment standards for English language teachers.”.”.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I agree with the Senator on the points he has just made. I would add that in terms of being a civilised House and how we treat each other, there will be people watching who will not be here to advocate for themselves. When we talk about not having any personalised attacks, therefore, Senators need to be very aware that people watching will be greatly affected by the comments that are made....

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: At 11 a.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I am agreeable to a later time.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: We are all doing that work anyway.

Seanad: Sittings of Seanad: Motion (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1:After “Public Business,”, to insert “(i) subject to the making of an Order for Committee Stage of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 [Dáil], the Seanad shall meet at 2.00 p.m. on Monday, 10th December, 2018, to consider Committee Stage of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 [Dáil] and,...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the legislation. This is a truly historic Bill that seeks to vindicate the decision made in the referendum in May, when 66.4% of the electorate voted to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution and allow broader access to legal abortion services in the State. I wish to pay tribute to the Citizens' Assembly for its work on the constitutional and legislative change required...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: It is what?

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1:In page 6, line 14, after "female" to insert "or pregnant".

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2:In page 7, line 27, to delete “physical or mental health” and substitute the following:“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”. I thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, for being in the Seanad today. We are looking forward to a constructive Committee Stage...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: It is not.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I know that.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I withdraw it.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I want to speak briefly. This is one issue I feel very strongly about. At the committee we spoke about this at length. It is hard for me to accept a situation where we talk about the committee recommendations and not diverging from them but when it comes to this we massively diverge from them. It makes all our previous arguments about the committee recommendations seem a little...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I am listening but I am not completely sold on what the Minister said. In the previous few contributions we talked about women being silenced. With all due respect to my colleagues on all sides of the House, the constant mention of 1 January feels like another silencing of women. That point is not aimed at the Minister but at my colleagues in the House.When it comes to serious risk and...