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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Wallace. I have a quick question for Ms McEvoy. The submission speaks very much to terminology and language. Will the witness speak to how the language in the legislation has framed a particular narrative with the Bill? She mentioned that the term "birth mother" could be seen as offensive. We can see it now and that should not have to be pointed out. When it is, we can see...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms McEvoy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Senator Black for giving over her slot to me today. I wrote recently to the committee to ask it to begin to look at this module in the next while and I am very grateful to the committee for inviting me today. A few comments have confused me a little today. Mention was made of “below the age of 40”, “below the age of 35” or even “below the age of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Are there statistics relating to the demographics of the women? The submission mentions prevention and awareness and it speaks to environmental factors. Is the class of the women a factor in the high number of women I know in this regard, if we take in environmental factors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: We spoke to the anxieties that would be caused by having to bring healthy women back for screening if we were to lower the age. Is there something else that can be done? The witnesses spoke about other tests. Can other tests, such as ultrasounds, be used to capture the women who are in that lower age bracket? There is also the narrative out there that age is the biggest risk factor. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: With regard to the quality of life of cancer patients in regard to their after-care or their life going forward, many women report ongoing issues for a long time, whether in regard to pain, sleep or all of those issues that come along. What comes up a lot in communities such as mine is access to supports that somebody might need, especially for one-parent families and even in regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Professor Hill and all the witnesses for their contributions. There was a great deal of information in them and I learned a lot. Hopefully, we can keep going in this direction and keep pushing to lower the age, regardless of what the witnesses have said to me.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and for taking the time to appear before the committee today. I ask Ms Coughlan to clarify why she believes the term "accredited counsellor" should be replaced with "psychologist". If the committee were to propose an amendment, should we try to capture several different professions? As some people might prefer a psychologist, rather than...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Children in Care (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber today during what is a very busy week for the Government. I was pleased to note in yesterday's budget an increase in the funding to be made available to the Child and Family Agency. I look forward to hearing more from the Minister's Department as to where these additional resources will be specifically allocated. Last week I spoke in the Seanad...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Children in Care (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for his encouraging response about the working group and the report he expects it to provide by the end of the year. I always see things in the flip-reverse. We sometimes put cost forward as a barrier because we look at the cost involved in the short term. It is always good to keep in our frame of thinking about what would the cost be of not taking a particular action....

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for being in the Chamber. I always find this time of year particularly difficult to comment on and I usually sit down, read the budget and try to make sense of it and understand it. I then try to break down the figures and comment on this million euro or that percentage. To be honest, every time I do that I give up and I have to go back to people's lives and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I also wish to pay my respects to Tom Burke. I remember starting in politics and him making we walk out and back in repeatedly. Whatever type of embarrassment I first felt in front of a camera, he definitely wore it off me after a few of those struts up and down. I want to speak about care leavers. Returning to the Chamber this week ahead of the budget, I cannot help but think of many...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “ “humanitarian assistance” means the provision of services that help migrants to access their fundamental rights (including to health care, shelter, hygiene and legal assistance) and to live with dignity, or any action guided by the principles of humanity, solidarity, impartiality and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: " "smuggling of people" means the procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly a financial or other material benefit, of the illegal entry of a person into a state party of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident;". This also relates to the definitions in the Bill. One of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "Rights and protections of smuggled persons 5.The State shall ensure that all its functions carried out under this Act are in a manner consistent with— (a) the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and (b) the European Convention on Human Rights.". This amendment relates to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: On the basis that we may have a conversation about this amendment, I will withdraw it with the right to resubmit on Report Stage.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, line 13, after “intentionally” to insert “and for financial or material benefit”. Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 were highlighted in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission's recommendations on the Bill. Under the 2002 EU directive, the facilitator of entry and transit does not need to have obtained any financial benefit from...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: Briefly, as I was listening to Senator Ward, I was thinking about the practical application of including an amendment where we create that exemption. I was listening to Senator Ward talk about the recklessness piece. He has obviously decided that it is accounted for here. There is direct correlation between not having an exemption and creating a situation of recklessness, because the...