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- Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Those four minutes do not count because Senator Dolan does not get any periods so we will go with eight minutes for me. I was delighted to let Senator Dolan go first. As we can see, there is a lack of men in the room today apart from Senator Warfield so it is important to have men who are willing to come in and have those conversations. Those euphemisms were created to avoid having to talk...
- Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: You have to be here, a Chathaoirligh.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: When discussing a particular topic is it usual for a number of people to be called in, in terms of stakeholders?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I recently drafted a piece of legislation on the use of seclusion rooms and restraints on people with autism and it ties in with the training of teachers working with them. Perhaps one of the organisations would be able to contribute as to what that type of training should look like. Perhaps the petitioner could assist. Perhaps AsIAm could come in or one of the other organisations that are...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: That is just one part of what was touched on in the submission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. A few people have mentioned the reinstatement and resourcing of what was there before, as if that was adequate, which does not acknowledge the damage done to the Travelling community since the early 1960s. We also need to acknowledge that when austerity budgets destroyed aspects of the education system it was a disaster for the Travelling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I would like to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: I am sorry but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: Hang on a minute. The Chairman laid it at the door of Traveller homes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: -----and through conversations we spoke about parents-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: We spoke about Traveller parents and Traveller homes and if the home does not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: The Chairman wants to speak up for teachers but did not do so for Traveller mothers two minutes ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)
Lynn Ruane: It does not take funding to create aspirations in children. We can talk about funding all we want. It does not take funding not to be racist. It does not take funding to be non-discriminatory. That stuff does not take funding and that stuff exists within the teaching profession. It just needs to be acknowledged. I am not saying it applies to every teacher.
- 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)
Lynn Ruane: Where is-----