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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 32: In page 12, to delete lines 35 to 37 and substitute the following:“(i) from time to time when requested to do so by the Minister, a selection process referred to in subsection (3) for the purpose specified in that subsection, and”. I thank the Cathaoirleach and appreciate his assistance. I will first speak to my amendment No. 37. My amendment seeks to...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: The Minister was replying to the group of amendments before the sitting suspended.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: On amendment No. 37, the Minister stated he does not wish to be prescriptive. However, how can we avoid a prevalence of lay members who qualify for appointment under subsections 6(e) or 6(f) or having several members from the world of commerce who may have a primary or master's degree in human rights or equality but no experience in terms of the implementation, practice or everyday...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I am not going to speak to the amendment but I want to put on the record that Senator Higgins and I have sat through all the sessions of this debate and we did not level a comment about filibustering at the Minister. He said he was not going to repeat what had already been said but that was not what we were asking of him. If anything, he has spent hours upon hours replying to filibustering...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: We definitely did not level that comment at the Minister. We have been here waiting to engage constructively on our amendments and not merely to keep talking, as has been demonstrated by the two of us.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: The present company may be excluded from having engaged in filibustering.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 37:In page 13, line 14, to delete "as many as possible" and substitute "each". I will withdraw this amendment but reserve the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I have a just a couple of questions and might have some more if there is another round. When first reading the material, I noted morality was mentioned many times. Maybe it is the philosophy student in me. The word "morality" just kept jumping out at me. Morality can be relative. Who exactly sets out the moral indicators for children in terms of what is and is not acceptable, especially...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: My question was not answered in relation to -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I thought he was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: The questions were on the first round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I asked how the JMB feels about the Catholic bishops or their organisations writing to schools which they have learned are providing consent classes. I wonder how the JMB feels about that because it obviously is an issue for relationships and RSE. Mr. Curtis responded to Deputy Naughton to say that they do teach everything, yet the Catholic Church is intervening so I wonder how the board...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I do not want Mr. Curtis to comment on the specific issue and that is why I did not name the specific school. I am talking about the idea of an outside body becoming involved. The school was running this programme for nearly two years. It was going well with positive feedback, parents were involved and the school principal sanctioned everything. It was the Catholic Church outside...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I have a quick question. If we look at it logically, when we say that the curriculum is the same and the guidelines are the same, but that is just on paper. A school or a teacher can take them and say they follow the guidelines but Mr. Curtis said-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I was speaking on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: Yes, but that was because it related to the issue. I was only referring to a phrase he used that was related to the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: Mr. Curtis talked about being mediated by ethos. Everything seems to be mediated by the characteristic spirit and by ethos. Both delegates talked about the challenges and obstacles, such as trying to balance the co-trustees. In their honest opinions, is the only way forward to remove characteristic spirit and ethos from our schools?
- Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)
Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister and his officials for giving me time between the last occasion on which we considered this and now to come to some agreements. I welcome the Minister's acceptance of amendment No. 3. It gets rid of the lack of clarity over where a child can be placed on a waiting list. I accept all the related amendments. I am referring to amendments Nos. 1, 2, 5 and the others in the...