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Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I have been doing a lot of listening and am trying to process so many things. I am considering whether we move to a situation where we nearly have to prove every single ethical framework conversation, such as love and compassion for surrogate mothers, and try to balance that with the fact we just need to exercise children's rights. At what stage do we balance those two things against each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thought it was 12.30 p.m.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 142: In page 66, line 2, after "mental" to insert ", emotional".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 143: In page 66, line 2, to delete “moral” and substitute “emotional”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 145: In page 76, to delete lines 19 and 20. I welcome the Minister back to the Chamber. I will speak to amendments Nos. 145 and 146. They both seek to address the inclusion of online content by which a person bullies or humiliates another person in the list of non-offence specific categories in the Bill. Both amendments aim to achieve a similar end, but go about...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I will look again at my definition between now and Report Stage but the most concerning thing is the word "humiliating" and whether we are combing the two or if there are separate definitions in the Bill. Bullying is an objective test. There is a repeated element of bullying where there may not be a repeated element to humiliating. When we put those things together we have to have a clear...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 146: In page 76, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following: “(a) online content by which a person sends repeated, abusive communications to another person, to an extent that a reasonable person would conclude constituted intimidating or bullying behaviour;”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 153: In page 77, line 4, after "(3)(e)” to insert “or 139B”. I reserve the right to resubmit the amendment on Report Stage.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 155: In page 77, line 9, after “139A(2)(b)” to insert “or 139B”. I reserve the right to resubmit the amendment on Report Stage.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 159: In page 77, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: "(6) The Minister or the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and Media may write to the Commission and request that the Commission consider a potential new category of harmful content and upon receipt of such a request the Commission shall evaluate such requests and may consider...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I accept that response and will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 161: In page 78, line 3, after "public" to insert the following: "which shall include publication on an accessible website, at least 4 weeks prior to the commencement of the consultation period, and for the duration of the consultation, which shall be not less than 4 weeks". Amendment No. 161 provides that when the commission is bringing draft regulations to the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I will withdraw the amendment with the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 162: In page 78, line 20, after "reconsider" to insert "or review". Amendment No. 162 seeks to insert a provision into section 139C that would allow the Minister, as well as asking for reconsideration of or accepting a proposed new regulation, to request that the commission would review the proposed regulation.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 163: In page 78, to delete lines 36 to 40, and in page 79, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: "139D.(1) In this Part, 'age-inappropriate online content' means online content that either— (a) is likely to be unsuitable for children (either generally or below a particular age), having regard to their capabilities, their development, and their...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank our guests for their presentations. I am also interested in the term "unduly long". It may be just a language issue. We talk about six months. What criteria suggest that six months was unduly long? How was that arrived at? It is an arbitrary number but we are saying that length of time and longer is considered unduly long. How did the IDG assess that six months was unduly long?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: That is okay.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The commission also mentioned the period of six months. It is a long time since I read the report and I did not read it page for page at the time because it was large. The commission would not have set some sort of assessment test that stated six months was an accurate number. We are taking an arbitrary number from the commission and using it without any sort of assessment of what is...