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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I agree with the majority of what Deputy O'Brien said, apart from the authorised user piece. Although I agree with the whole point around data and anonymity, I think the continuum of care which Professor Bury spoke about is very important. While we do not want to always track people through the service, in order to provide that step-by-step care they might need, if they choose to move on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I imagine it would be for any sort of holistic needs assessment or safety-net service. Hopefully, it is people who are equipped and well used to working within the hostel services who would staff these facilities, such as anyone training under those like Dr. Austin O'Carroll and Dr. Fiona O'Reilly. The assessment when people first access the service should not rely on their being registered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I have a few comments and questions. I will be honest and say that I felt a great level of discomfort when we moved on to the policing presentation. I have worked in the addiction field and in the homeless sector for a long time. I find the words "policing this facility" distressful in that I would question why anybody would want to use a facility that is being policed in the first place....

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I may seek to table an amendment on Report Stage, either to this section or one of the others, regarding lone parents and maintenance payments. We discussed this issue previously but there is no mention of it in the Bill. This ties in with welfare dependency and poverty rates when women are means tested against child maintenance payments ordered by the court that they do not receive. Has...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"Child benefit – amendment 14.Part 4 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 220:"Regulations 220A.Regulations may provide for requiring an employer to give such information to the Minister as he or she may require for the purposes of determining...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate the Minister's response. The amendment covers all the scenarios he mentioned. I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to table it on Report Stage after some thought on the matter.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move recommendation No. 6:In page 45, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"(iv) for which there may be no shared ownership, or control, in the State or internationally, between the qualifying company and the recipient of any interest or other distribution payable.". This recommendation draws on the work of Deputy Donnelly during the Report Stage debate on the Bill in the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will withdraw it and resubmit it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move recommendation No. 8:In page 71, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(3) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the offset of losses, carried forward from preceding accounting periods, for which relief is available in succeeding accounting periods, setting out the costs of tax...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: No, I will withdraw it until Report Stage.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will. I welcome the Minister. I would like to speak on the divestment of investments in fossil fuels and the movement we are seeing developing globally, which has begun to find success here in Ireland recently. I applaud the work of the Fossil Free campaigning group from Trinity College Dublin, which, after a well-executed campaign, has received a commitment from the college authorities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Apologies for my late attendance but I had a prior appointment. In the delegates' opinion, what is the reason for the lack of concerted effort on the part of the education sector to pursue the national training levy, particularly given it is in surplus, and why is this not being seen as a viable option? While many people are speaking about this, there is nobody getting up in arms about it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will tag on to that piece there. Is it not true to say that whatever the new arrangements will be with the UK and the European Union, the UK will no longer be able to lead out on research so they might have to lean on Ireland? We have a close relationship and both are English speaking countries. Will there be an arrangement whereby Ireland collaborates with England on its current and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: If education was paid for through the tax system, their children would most definitely be able to access third level education because their education would be free, paid by the tax that they had paid to the State. I have a couple of questions. I say, "Well done," to Ms Hayes-Nally. She highlights whether introducing income contingent loans to young people is even morally permissible and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their time today. I will start with Mr. Donohoe. He said that business is also willing to play its part. Does that acknowledge it is not fully playing its part? Is IBEC open to an increase in the national training fund levy that will be ring fenced for higher education? Is the Irish Farmers' Association in favour of income contingent loans, which means the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Drugs Strategy (13 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for her time. Last week, as I was submitting this Commencement matter for debate, it struck me that what I want to discuss is how best the two briefs in the Minister of State's remit can be combined. It is no coincidence that responsibility for communities and the national drugs strategy were placed with the same Minister of State portfolio, as it seems...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Drugs Strategy (13 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to make two brief comments. I thank the Minister of State for her contribution. I reiterate how vital the community pillar is, even in underpinning the existing pillars. The vast number of contributions the Minister of State has received shows the level of community participation that is necessary. I urge the Minister of State to include it, notwithstanding any reference in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Does Mr. Muldoon wish to contribute at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and presentation. I will take questions from all members before we revert to the witnesses. I have a number of questions, one of which has not been spoken about. I get a great many e-mails from people in the locality of a school who have been excluded on the basis that siblings or the children of parents who attended that school get a higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Does Ms Corr have any comment to make?