Results 61-80 of 126 for garda speaker:Lynn Ruane

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...views so that they can contribute positively to the development of policy, practice and legislation. The amendment seeks the deletion of such a provision as it relates to the appearance of the Garda Commissioner before the Committee of Public Accounts. The amendment also seeks the deletion of the provision as it relates to the appearance of the Garda Commissioner before the Oireachtas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Lynn Ruane: ...Dr. Eogan. She outlined three options in her presentation that she offers to women who wish to access care. Options two and three allow women to receive care without reporting the incident to An Garda Síochána if aged over 18. If we were to legislate for the involvement of the criminal justice system in assessing access to abortion on ground of rape, would this impact on her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ..., to manage our Border. There will be other legislation on border patrols and policing that interacts with the issue of facial recognition and other biometrics. The Department could say that the Garda could share facial imaging data with the border patrol of another country, given that they have to interact.

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: ...credible case of sexual abuse, when those services are asked to make those assessments. Those assessments, then, are also not taken in court as evidence because they are opinions. If Tusla and An Garda Síochána in future will be able to do this, how will they then fit into the process?

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I might be missing something elsewhere in the legislation, but section 5 states: A member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of superintendent may require a service provider to disclose to that member user data in the possession or control of the service provider— (a) where the member believes that the data relate to a person whom the member suspects, on reasonable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Civil Liberties during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discussion (22 Jun 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...and we have just heard similar from Mr. Herrick. I know the need for different, disaggregated data, etc. has been talked about but is there currently, or should there be, data on the number of Garda interactions with individuals which tracks all prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Equal Status Act? Protests were mentioned so I want to ask a question around the protests and the...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...” to insert “the number and nature of”. These amendments concern section 77. Section 77 of the Bill provides for the collection, compilation and storage of statistical information by the Garda Commissioner. The section as drafted provides that the "... Commissioner shall ensure that ... statistical information [in relation to] offences, criminal proceedings and the...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: .... It seems pre-emptive and that it could be used in respect of minor offences. My fear is that it dips over into the idea of powers of surveillance in terms of the Revenue Commissioners and the Garda having access to user data on suspicion of an offence having been committed, rather than an offence actually having been committed.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...excavation and recovery by the director of authorised intervention. Finally, amendment No. 16 seeks to expand the provisions relating to the obligations on a director of authorised intervention to notify An Garda Síochána and the coroner of certain evidence. As drafted, section 36 specifies An Garda Síochána and the coroner must be notified by a director where...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am thinking of public interest underpinning the decisions on where police are deployed or not deployed. I think that makes sense. When we look at the prosecutorial powers of members of the Garda, I question whether it is in the public interest to keep guards in courts. Is there another part of the legislation where decisions are made that are not in the public interest? I am not sure if...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...I spent thinking about why I do not speak about the matter this morning, I recalled the many occasions when I have tried to speak about it and when I was met with a love fest of all the things the gardaí are great and good at and people recounting the great experiences they had with this or that garda. The latter completely dismisses the experiences of communities which are...

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: ...of understanding of the process and I will ask them so it is clear for me. The Courts Service is not included in the steering group. I know Mr. Brophy mentioned some work is ongoing between An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service. I am thinking of all the work done until the point it reaches the courts system and access to the courts. I am thinking of the anonymised article...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... Somebody could end up in court for a particular reason or somebody could end up with a certain sentence that could have been very different had there been impartial evidence. The fact that a Garda goes through a disciplinary procedure does not protect the civilian who may be tasked with trying to prove something outside the realm of what has been captured in footage. I can accept that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...and barriers. The issue is regarded as associated with an individual rather than one that might affect a community. My advice to Mr. McDonagh, in all his successes and when he becomes an amazing garda, is that he should remind people that this matter will not be addressed until he is not regarded as an exception and until he is not a story, when Travellers have achieved true equality and...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...page 59, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(b) the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission,”. Chapter 6 of Part 2 relates to the governance and accountability of An Garda Síochána. This critical responsibility currently lies with the independent Policing Authority. Under the Bill, the Policing Authority will have responsibility for...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Lynn Ruane: ...the issue of fixed payment notices. There will be no recourse to appeal in this regard. I reiterate the importance of an appeals mechanism and the fact that sweeping powers, which go beyond the Garda Síochána, need to be addressed in the reply from the Minister.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...State and community organisations. The partnership model cannot succeed without buy-in from State agencies and the community, including their representative organisations and, most importantly, the Garda. It is hard to see why State agencies would invest resources when there is no obligation on them to do so and there are few outcomes visible from this forum. This is a major barrier in...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: My point relates to the reference to harmful effect in section 62 of Garda Síochána Act 2005. I was glancing through the legislation as the Minister was speaking. It states it is an offence to disclose information if the person knows its disclosure is likely to have a harmful effect. If I do not push these amendments, could we consider section 62 between now and when we come back...

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

Lynn Ruane: .... Leaving this decision with the Minister of the day risks politicising the distinction to the potential detriment of public safety. The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland examined the role of An Garda Síochána as both a police service and a State security agency. Ultimately, it recommended the creation of an independent examiner, as provided for by the Bill. For...

Seanad: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...in the State, be a conviction which: (a) could be regarded as spent by virtue of section 5 of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016, or (b) for the purposes of Garda vetting, that it could be a conviction to which Section 14A of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 applies; than as appropriate, it shall be eligible to...