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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: We get very exercised when we are being quizzed about middle-class white teachers from rural Ireland. Look how exercised we are. Can my colleagues now transfer that feeling to imagine what it would be like to be a Traveller?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I had no idea. I would not have spoken with the Senator all this time if I had known.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I join my colleagues in congratulating Mr. McDonagh on his achievements and on the fact that he will hang on to the cultural part of him that will say, "I am a Traveller and also other things." The journey I made through life was often quite lonely because a person can end up living in limbo between two worlds. On moving so far, Mr. McDonagh may ask all of a sudden whether he is still part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I would like to ask Mr. McDonagh about the homework club he mentioned. There is a group of homework clubs in the large community I live in. The clubs are run by a service rather than by a non-governmental organisation. They are organised at specific locations like halting sites. Is the homework club that Mr. McDonagh attends run by the school? Is it a Traveller-specific club in a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to raise the issue of the deprivation of liberty and institutional abuse and the particular responsibility we in Ireland, as a result of our history, have to ensure that the State takes an active role in monitoring, overseeing and intervening to safeguard the vulnerable in institutions from being abused. A key mechanism for addressing the potential for abuse in institutions is to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Direct Investment (19 Feb 2019)

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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for being here. I raise the issue of drug policy reform and the progress of the work of the Department of Health working group examining alternative approaches to the criminalisation of drugs possession. As she is aware, this is an issue I have a keen interest in and I have been following closely the progress of the Department working group. The...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: It goes without saying that a significant amount of work has gone into this. The majority of NGOs, community groups and voluntary groups that support decriminalisation have welcomed the level of consultation and the role that the Department has played, as have I. We were concerned by the report in the Irish Examiner, which pre-empts the outcome of the as yet unpublished working group...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (19 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: They can be anonymised.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, for his presence. I am extraordinarily proud to be able to introduce the Bill which will expand and make fairer access to spent convictions. I thank my colleagues in the Civil Engagement group for facilitating the debate; the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and Ms...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everybody across the House who has shown his or her support for the Bill. It means a lot to me to hear such encouraging words from every party and none in the House. It means more to me because legislation such as this has impacted on my life and the lives of those with whom I have worked and in my community for a very long time. During the week I was in the gym where a woman, a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 62:In page 34, line 4, to delete “and”. I will withdraw this amendment and reserve the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 63:In page 34, line 6, to delete “section 56.”,” and substitute the following:“section 56, and(c) the provider has established procedures for demonstrating full compliance with relevant employment legislation in respect of employees employed as English language teachers.”,”.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 64:In page 34, line 18, to delete “and” and substitute the following:“(b) the compliance of the provider with relevant employment legislation in respect of employees employed as English language teachers, and ”.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 65:In page 34, line 19, to delete “(b) other” and substitute “(c) other”

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 66:In page 34, after line 38, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 61 of Principal Act (Arrangements for providers of international education mark) 26. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 61: “Arrangements for providers of international education mark 61A. (1) A provider authorised to use the...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 69:In page 36, lines 27 to 30, to delete all words from and including “prior” in line 27 down to and including “programme” in line 30 and substitute “and prescribed at the start of the year and shall be paid in quarterly instalments thereafter”. I thank the Minister and her officials for meeting us yesterday. It helped me to...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 78 would provide for far wider consultation on how the sector is impacted in general rather than solely on the very specific area of the fee only. I accept in principle that the Minister of State will come back on Report Stage. However, in light of her qualifying that by stating "or subsequently", on Report Stage, I will table a variation of the amendment that might be more...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 70:In page 37, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“(n) the Marino Institute of Education,”. These amendments provide for additional bodies to be added to the list in section 28 of institutions which will be exempt from paying into the learner protection fund. Since Second Stage of the Bill, I have discussed with the Minister of State the...