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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Legislation states that is the case.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister is not going to answer the question directly so I will move on to the next amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I asked the Minister a direct question about if people will have to work, not whether there has been a shift or not.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I did not ask whether this has been a shift from other policies. Whether it exists in previous policies or this policy, it is wrong that people are expected to engage in work experience for the prescribed amount of pay-related benefit. If someone decides it is part of their care plan with social welfare, are they expected to potentially engage in work experience for whatever number of hours...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is it the case-----

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Are you expected to work for your benefit?

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Not necessarily.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is not the case.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 12: In page 20, line 38, to delete “which is prescribed for the purposes of this section”. This amendment speaks to the concerns we have outlined with regard to the previous amendment and the proposed new sections 68KG and 68KH. The purpose of this section is to direct recipients of pay-related benefit towards schemes or programmes of employment or work...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: No, that is not what I said.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That is not what I said.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I said people without a profession.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is very important to say that we have a history, as has been said by Senator Higgins, with the jobseeker's transitional payment, which completely put women and mothers in a vulnerable position. When they were transferred from the one-parent family payment to the jobseeker's transitional payment, they were expected to go to work when their child reached a certain age, not the age of 18,...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will make one final point. It is all well and good to say that the Department wants to help people get to work. This is a short scheme and participants do not get much time to actually explore what their next option might be. If they have just lost their job, they are not even given the breathing space to figure out what that might be. Second, people are not helped by telling them...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 11, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(I) in subparagraph (ii), after “or class of medicinal products,”, by the insertion of “to include Opioid Substitution Treatments,”,”. This is much in the same vein as the conversation we had last week, and I note we have not had much time in between to...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: On amendment No. 1 and the holistic nature of care, the ageing population, especially in respect of methadone, is a very relevant general point about addiction services. I do not know whether access to capital funding comes under the Department historically but not only is the population ageing, access to appropriate community drug services that people avail of is becoming much more...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, line 23, after “ailments,” to insert “or in response to the need for urgent or life-saving medicinal care,” The amendment relates to ailments and seeks to insert “or in response to the need for urgent or life-saving medicinal care”. We have legislation that was amended in the past to allow for the likes of...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am happy to accept the comments and intentions of the Minister to continue to explore policy options going forward. I apologise because I have to leave to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Drugs Use that is starting in two minutes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Night-time Economy (3 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister of State is very welcome. I know this is in the realm of justice, but it also very much intersects with mental health and well-being. Cultural and social activity at night in Ireland has been teetering on the precipice of extinction for the past two decades. Access to dance spaces in Ireland is at an all-time low. We have the earliest closing times in Europe and some of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Night-time Economy (3 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What is the nature of the delays? We are moving very quickly through this year and approaching the end of the lifetime of the Government. Are there specifics as to why the delays have occurred. Is there a timeline whereby we can see this progress? Public health and addiction are extremely important. I would like to draw attention to a bottleneck in the context of the time when people...