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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Deputy Thomas Byrne said two groups are involved but it is also being used on children who are not from a Traveller background and who do not have a diagnosis of special educational needs. There is a cohort of students for whom the reason is explicitly behavioural. There is no special educational support or special needs assistants, SNAs, for them. Suspension or a reduced timetable is seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan raised some of my points. There does not appear to be any disagreement regarding the collection of data in this area. It is about how we do it. We do not have a clear pattern of how it is being used because we cannot record it. What are the interventions that happened before the point of last resort? What did they look like for the child, the family? Were they...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State. The House will be aware that I did not reintroduce any of the amendments I proposed on Committee Stage. This is because I completely agree that the Government amendments meet the requirements we sought to have applied on Committee Stage. When I met the Minister of State, her officials and Mr. Patrick King I was confident that a large body of work had been...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for bringing forward amendments in this area. I was originally concerned about community colleges that do not charge fees having to pay into a fund. I am satisfied that if fees are not charged to students in certain forms of community education, they will not come under the same remit. I also welcome amendment No. 23 regarding the exemption for the IPA....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I acknowledge the recent publication which seems to conflate drug decriminalisation and the legalisation of cannabis, which are two very different debates. The working group on drug decriminalisation has now given the Minister its report and this must be made public.There are various media articles that have taken pieces of that report and reported on them in an ambiguous way. I have seen...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I was not going to speak but the amendment is around raising the standards of the accommodation and for Senators who have been arguing for decent housing for people to then come in with an amendment that tries to carve out ways for people to evade rent caps is completely hypocritical. If one is willing to invest and use a property as an investment, one should be investing in it to meet a...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Was the Senator not doing well for himself?

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Bill as it provides greater security and protections to the private rental sector and, for the first time, includes regulations for short-term lettings in Ireland. However, I object to the attempts to rush the Bill through the Seanad and I welcome the change made to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Having tight timeframes means rushing it.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Senator Buttimer is being very sensitive and I have not even started yet.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: The Leader is mumbling under his breath. He should say what he wants to say a little bit louder.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: If Senator Buttimer had been here this morning, he may not have lost the vote.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I am just telling Senator Buttimer that his side was short of numbers and it might have won if he had been here.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I was doing so until I was interrupted. The Seanad debates in 2016 with the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, on the Government's last housing Bill were very productive and resulted in actual, tangible changes to the Bill. Many of the flaws in how rent pressure zones were designed, particularly the lack of definition of substantial change in the nature of property for the purposes of an...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: As there is no end time for the debate, we do not need to rush through the amendments.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: It feels as if we are.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I am just asking the Acting Chairman to slow down.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: That is what I am saying. We can keep going until we finish it. On amendment No. 26, I completely accept the concerns the Minister raised about deposits in the Dáil and last night in this House on Second Stage. That is why the amendment looks for a report on the feasibility of a deposit scheme. It is not necessarily looking for report on how we would implement it. Given that the...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Lynn Ruane: They voted today to slow it down. It is completely hypocritical.