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Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State's acceptance of the amendment. We are coming to the end of the amendments to which my name is attached. I thank him for his engagement with Senator Higgins. It is acknowledged that the Senator has put a significant number of hours into this legislation. Her mantle passed to me today because of a clash with the meeting of the Joint Committee on Climate Action.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: It is not often that a girl from Tallaght stands here for two hours talking about bogs.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for his engagement and for the support we have received in the House on this legislation in recent weeks.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: As the Minister will be aware, Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 set out new criminal penalties on the purchase of sexual services from sex workers, where the buyer of sex is criminalised but the sex worker is not, sometimes referred to as the Nordic model.In response to concerns that have been raised on the impact of this model on the safety of sex workers in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for his very detailed response. This is more an observation as we move forward when speaking of the monitoring committee. The space in respect of representation for sex workers in Ireland is dominated by organisations and NGOs in support of the Nordic model. This is more about putting down the marker to ensure those groups that are not often represented in those wider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Senator Colette Kelleher, and Deputies Colm Brophy, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Martin Ferris and Fiona O'Loughlin. I propose that we now go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome members and viewers who may be watching this meeting on Oireachtas TV to the meeting of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. The purpose of today's meeting is to begin our deliberations on the topic of education and how it impacts the Traveller community. We will meet representatives from the National Traveller Women's Forum and the Tallaght...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Ms Flynn should feel free to speak off the top of her head because we have her submission. If she does not want to read from the page and feels more comfortable speaking as she always does, she should please feel free to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: That is okay. Ms Flynn can stay in her seat and Ms Joyce can sit beside her. We will go into private session for a few moments. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: We are in public session. I call on Ms Joyce to continue the presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Joyce and Ms Flynn. Reduced timetables come up a lot. The witnesses have been very generous with their time with regard to the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills. Reduced timetables have been used as a tool to reinforce inequality and to further increase the level of racism and segregation that is happening in schools. It is something that, like the Joint Committee on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I now call on Ms Joyce to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Joyce for her very strong presentation. It contained little with which I would disagree. One of her first points was how education is a right. Unfortunately, there are still people who do not have rights. Rights can exist theoretically but where people come from communities which have never been in a position to facilitate, support or exercise their rights, and they do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Perhaps Mr. Nevin could deal with the points relating to reparation and some of the other suggestions. Other speakers can come in on the delivery of Traveller culture and history and how this would be facilitated in a school setting. They can also comment on ethnicity and indicate if that has had any impact. Please also respond to the last point Deputy Ó Cuív made about educating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: It is up to this committee to analyse the research that Mr. Nevin has referred to and what has happened in other jurisdictions for our own deliberations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I agree. It is an important point around the delivery of Traveller culture and history and not a justification for the existence of Travellers in a country. It should take in everything that Travellers have contributed to Irish life for a very long time. It seeps into every one of our subjects but it is excluded from books. It is a good place to start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Ms Flynn referred to normalising difference. That is such a powerful thing. Unfortunately, people sometimes think normalising something is about making us look and sound exactly the same. That is not what it is at all. If we take anything from today it should be how amazing it is that we can get to a point where we normalise and value difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: On the transition from primary to second level and the illegality of it, unfortunately, the State has got around that by its use of reduced timetables because they are actually keeping Traveller kids on the books while in fact they are being sent home. They are finding ways for that not to come up as much as it could if the reduced timetable issue were exposed more than it is. I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: It is very difficult to persuade people to go to third level education when they have been rejected in every other educational experience they have had. A very small number of Travellers in relative terms do the leaving certificate. Spaces could be opened up on every degree programme in the country and every bar or criteria such as the leaving certificate removed. That is what happens for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Joyce. I call Mr. Nevin and I will then call Senator Warfield. Any other points that arise from this question can be brought back in at that point.