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Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Yes. Thank you for your help, Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 52:In page 43, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(5) The Minister shall —(a) between three and five years after this section comes into operation, commence a review of the operation of Section 7A, and (b) not later than 12 months after its commencement, make a report to each House of the Oireachtas of the findings made in the review, and of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I have a few questions. I have a knot in my stomach when I talk about this subject because my daughter who has just turned 17 years has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in the past nine months. I admit that the diagnosis saved her life. I did not think I would get her out of secondary school alive because of the experiences she was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: We probably should have done this in private session but as there are only two speakers, is it possible to ask questions individually rather than in groups?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for coming today and for their presentation. I have read all the reports.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: That should be enough. When I read the documentation I understood the need to look forward but we should also acknowledge the treatment of survivors throughout the process. I am keen to get a bit more understanding of the witnesses' experience of being survivors on the Caranua board. It is first-hand experience and not just part of a process. Will they elaborate on what that experience...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I asked the Department to explain the consultation process and officials stated that various survivors' groups had indicated they wanted to organise face-to-face consultation. They also indicated the Department fully supported that approach. The witnesses are the experts in this field but I know it is not their job to figure out how face-to-face consultation should take place. In light of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise for exceeding my time but I have one more question. If survivors do not approach individual survivor groups because they are representatives of various cohorts around the country, how do we best contact all survivors to invite them to a consultation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: When I drew up a plan on consultation talks - and I might have been told this already by some of the groups I was involved with - the numbers in Ireland are broken up as: Leinster, 5,132; Connacht more than 600; Munster just over 2,000; and Ulster, 131. There are no figures collated for survivors who are in the UK. I may have been informed of this already because the figures are in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: So this is the redress figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Dr. Lodato spoke about the indemnity clause and how people cannot tell their stories. What is in the indemnity clause that says people cannot share their experience or talk publicly about it? Or is it about taking a case based on their experience?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Why are they told that they cannot say how much they received?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Last year I brought a Bill to the House called the Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017. At the time there was a lot of commentary on it from Senators, which was fairly positive. Obviously, some Senators asked very legitimate questions and raised concerns. I have not pushed that Bill back onto the agenda because the Minister of State carried out the national drugs strategy and...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, line 5, to delete "20 school days" and substitute "10 school days". I welcome the Bill, which provides for a radical change of our education system. While I was unable to contribute to the Second Stage debate I look forward to hopefully improving the Bill on Committee Stage today. This amendment deals with the number of days for which a student must be...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for his response. I completely accept that the 20 days sounds reasonable when we look at the other possibilities for early intervention. The disappointing thing for me is that I know these early interventions are not being utilised. Other speakers have said that principals in schools will suspend students as a last resort. I imagine that is true of most schools....

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I accept what the Minister is saying. I agree with him that the issue should be managed at school level. I would be eager and happy to look at how I can work with the Department on the experiences of people in some of the communities. When I speak about DEIS schools, it is not to undermine the work of DEIS schools and what they do. I understand the social context in which the schools...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I will withdraw my amendment.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5:In page 9, lines 9 to 14, to delete all words from and including "by—" in line 9 down to and including line 14 and substitute the following:"by admitting the student to the school or special class concerned.". My amendment relates to the process by which a student can appeal to the board of a school if they have been denied admission due to a school being...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: That all makes perfect sense up to a point, but there is a part I do not get. It is probably really obvious. It is almost as if there is an appeals process in respect of the waiting list and another in respect of admission. Take the case of someone who made it so far on a waiting list that he or she was next to be admitted and, at that point, was not admitted. How could someone have been...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I am going to withdraw it but I reserve the right to resubmit it on Report Stage because I still have some concerns about the drafting of the section. I will withdraw it at this Stage and come back on Report Stage.