Results 861-880 of 3,697 for speaker:Lynn Ruane
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 78:In page 41, line 29, after “Minister” to insert “, having consulted with obligated providers,”.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, for his presence. I am extraordinarily proud to be able to introduce the Bill which will expand and make fairer access to spent convictions. I thank my colleagues in the Civil Engagement group for facilitating the debate; the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and Ms...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I thank everybody across the House who has shown his or her support for the Bill. It means a lot to me to hear such encouraging words from every party and none in the House. It means more to me because legislation such as this has impacted on my life and the lives of those with whom I have worked and in my community for a very long time. During the week I was in the gym where a woman, a...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Direct Investment (19 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Where is-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for being here. I raise the issue of drug policy reform and the progress of the work of the Department of Health working group examining alternative approaches to the criminalisation of drugs possession. As she is aware, this is an issue I have a keen interest in and I have been following closely the progress of the Department working group. The...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: It goes without saying that a significant amount of work has gone into this. The majority of NGOs, community groups and voluntary groups that support decriminalisation have welcomed the level of consultation and the role that the Department has played, as have I. We were concerned by the report in the Irish Examiner, which pre-empts the outcome of the as yet unpublished working group...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: They can be anonymised.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I wish to raise the issue of the deprivation of liberty and institutional abuse and the particular responsibility we in Ireland, as a result of our history, have to ensure that the State takes an active role in monitoring, overseeing and intervening to safeguard the vulnerable in institutions from being abused. A key mechanism for addressing the potential for abuse in institutions is to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. A few people have mentioned the reinstatement and resourcing of what was there before, as if that was adequate, which does not acknowledge the damage done to the Travelling community since the early 1960s. We also need to acknowledge that when austerity budgets destroyed aspects of the education system it was a disaster for the Travelling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I would like to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I am sorry but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Hang on a minute. The Chairman laid it at the door of Traveller homes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: -----and through conversations we spoke about parents-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: We spoke about Traveller parents and Traveller homes and if the home does not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: The Chairman wants to speak up for teachers but did not do so for Traveller mothers two minutes ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: It does not take funding to create aspirations in children. We can talk about funding all we want. It does not take funding not to be racist. It does not take funding to be non-discriminatory. That stuff does not take funding and that stuff exists within the teaching profession. It just needs to be acknowledged. I am not saying it applies to every teacher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: We get very exercised when we are being quizzed about middle-class white teachers from rural Ireland. Look how exercised we are. Can my colleagues now transfer that feeling to imagine what it would be like to be a Traveller?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I had no idea. I would not have spoken with the Senator all this time if I had known.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I join my colleagues in congratulating Mr. McDonagh on his achievements and on the fact that he will hang on to the cultural part of him that will say, "I am a Traveller and also other things." The journey I made through life was often quite lonely because a person can end up living in limbo between two worlds. On moving so far, Mr. McDonagh may ask all of a sudden whether he is still part...