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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 29: In page 17, after line 42, to insert the following: "Report on operation of Act 18.The Minister shall, within 30 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage outlining— (a) the proportion of sites, expressed as a percentage, which have been granted LRD planning...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Lots of legislation contains review clauses in it or calls for reports to either both Houses or the relevant committee. I do not really understand why it is not workable. Is it the timeframe? Is it the 30 months? Is there an alternative way that we can ensure we can report to both Houses on this information just in a different way?

Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for being here today. I will preface my contribution by saying that although we need to focus on aftercare provision and foster care, we must not lose sight of the reasons people end up in care in the first place and we should always focus on prevention as well as the aftermath of children who have been in care. Senator Seery Kearney hit the nail on the head in what she...

Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: That is something that has always rung through for me. I have been involved in many cases of advocacy as a community worker, including working with women who had addiction issues, where we sat down and looked at care plans. Tusla’s intervention at the time would have been very heavily focused on a parenting course. In those situations it was not that the mother needed a parenting...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am sorry that missed the first two or three minutes of the meeting. There was a vote in the Seanad. My questions will be directed to Ms Bayliss from SPARK, Ms Smith and the Children’s Rights Alliance. First, I would like to pick up on the point relating to child maintenance. My office has been drafting child maintenance...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Asset Management Agency (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for being in the Chamber. We need to talk about the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and, more specifically, what the agency is doing to fulfil its mandate to contribute to the economic and social development of Ireland. While the agency may be fulfilling its economic mandate, it has dropped the ball regarding its contribution to the social development...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I want to first mention Seán Binder.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: As many Members will have read during the week, he is on trial in Lesbos for his humanitarian work. Seán was in the same year as me in college. He is 27 years of age. We spoke in the Chamber recently on legislation concerning the need to carve out humanitarian work and have it as an exemption rather than as a defence. This is the type of case that proves this point. Seán is now...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Asset Management Agency (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: As the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, in 2019 the Minister of State himself commented on the unacceptable delay in terms of what NAMA should be doing, yet, according to his presentation today, NAMA is doing all that it can. I am wondering what has changed since 2019. One of the key points is that NAMA states that it will not build the 10,000 units that it could, because they are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Equality Issues (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Taoiseach for being here this afternoon. We need to name the date for the Citizens' Assembly on drugs. I am aware that the Taoiseach launched the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign event today. The rumour, if you talk to people in addiction industries, is that the relevant Ministry is in a pair of safe hands but we have to deal with unelected officials every time we try to deal...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate that. I will not use all the time available to me because, as a victim of sexual assault, I always struggle to speak about this topic. It struck me that the report found that less than 10% of victims report incidents of sexual assault or rape. As the mother of two daughters, I would like to be able to encourage my daughters, if something was to ever happen to them, to hold the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: The representatives from the Department of Justice are only here as observers. Can they answer questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to refer to one or two things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: In terms of understanding, we are having a discussion about motivation versus the demonstration of hostility. Perhaps Dr. Taylor or Dr. Schweppe can explain, for someone who may be watching this meeting, why the differentiation is so important. Why does the motivation exist the way it does at present? I lean more towards motivation but I can also see the problems with it. It is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Will the Department look at the safety net of a firewall policy and free in-free out, especially regarding migration status and the sharing of information? If someone from the migrant community reports a hate crime, what type of safety net will be in place so that person will not be in fear of his or her migration status being shared with any other Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Why can ensuring protection not be part of this Bill? Is there a specific reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Am I out of time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I will bring another emphasis. We have all commented on the need for an exemption not to be included for, say, political discourse. We have all made some reference to that, but we have not got into what that means and why an exemption would exist in those spaces. I understand some arguments in respect of universities, topics that might be discussed there and all the freedom of speech...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Definitions are important.