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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...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will not take too much time. I want to outline a couple of things I may seek amendments on when the Bill gets to Committee Stage. Some of them are probably for this Bill and some not, but I would like the Minister to comment on how they fit into the Bill. The amendment to the Irish Medicines Board Act could probably also include the expansion of nurse prescribing in respect of opioid...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Does the pharmacist decide that it is uncomplicated?

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Lynn Ruane: They are all congregating outside and are plainly visible.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank our guests for the presentations. A committee like this can really create a big change domestically because it gives us an opportunity to consider what is done in other countries and obtain expert evidence from people who have been working not only domestically but also on an international scale. It is important for us to hear this evidence because we do not have the same history as...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: There is so much floating around now in terms of this conversation. What we need to remember is that several different things have to happen in parallel but none should be so attached to the other that the other does not begin. I remind everyone of the earlier conversations about the importance of decriminalisation in terms of not compounding all those other things that have been built on...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: To all of the other things.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I know it was not. I am just reasserting-----

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I offered to swap with him but he said it is fine.