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Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Excuse me if I am being naive about this amendment. The possibility of a review of someone's detention at six months is important in a holistic sense in terms of reintegration into a community. The detention is not a prison sentence. It is not rocket science to contend that someone should have the status of their health reviewed on an ongoing basis, be it weekly or monthly, never mind...

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Statements (16 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I have read the press releases in respect of speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy. They are extremely welcome. I want to seek a comment from the Minister on what we determine as special needs. In the areas and schools that I most represent sometimes those special needs come in the form of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I have a question for Ms Cooney. The Data Protection Bill will be dealt with this afternoon and I wonder about the digital age of consent being raised to 16 years of age. I know about the inaccurate picture pornography, etc., give to children but there is also a lot of positive content online that somebody might not get from a parent, peers or school. Will raising the age of digital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I started working on the issue of consent a number of years ago and I was quite shocked at the reaction I got when speaking consent, understanding consent or understanding sex-positive parenting outside the education system. I gave a talk on negotiated sexual relationships and sex-positive parenting and I literally cleared the room; they left with their children. This is where we are at....

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the decisions by Facebook and Google this week to place restrictions on online advertising on their platforms in respect of the upcoming referendum on the eighth amendment. I also want to raise the issue of campaign regulations in elections and referenda in Ireland more generally. Reports have emerged over the past few weeks that Irish voters have been targeted by a range of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I am sorry for missing the start of the session. I had to give a presentation elsewhere. I wish to make a couple of comments and observations and perhaps ask one question. I am not completely set against the idea of live streaming classes. I support many schools that lack resources and whose classes I would love to see live streamed as opposed to how they are currently provided. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Through the Chair, may I pick up on a small point there? I understand how, given the shortage of teachers, we will end up with someone who is unqualified to teach a certain subject taught by an absentee, but I am wondering about teachers who are actually permanent employees, who are three, four, five, six or seven years into their employment in teaching a subject that they clearly should not...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Two years ago, when the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton, was appointed, he created a funding stream for new projects that would widen participation in education. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of launching one such programme, Turn to Teaching, on which I congratulate the Department. This is an access programme for children from diverse backgrounds, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Lynn Ruane: My question is for Ms Carr. My daughter was in a Gaelscoil that had been in temporary accommodation since 1990. They were promised suitable accommodation 28 years ago. I never paid much attention to the impact of that when I dropped her to the prefab and it was only when they moved into the school last year that I could see what the students were missing. I had not tuned in to the impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I will ask questions on behalf of Deputy Catherine Martin, who had a bereavement today and asked me to put them to the witnesses, but I have a question of my own at the outset. It concerns Mr. Loftus's presentation in which he said that the Department of Education and Skills is in regular contact with the schools. That seems to be in direct conflict with the common experience of almost all...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: We can be respectful of each other while also picking up on untruths. Senator Mullen put forward the argument that removing the eighth amendment from the Constitution does not future-proof the legislation against there being no term limits for abortion, but all his statement implies is that he does not trust women at any point during their pregnancy. Women will put a limit on themselves....

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Therefore, Senator Mullen is supporting late-term abortions in the stance that he has taken. I do not know what the phrase "abortion culture" means. I do not believe there is a culture of abortion in this country. If anything, there is a culture of silence, oppression and a mistrust of women. We need to trust women more. Politicians now or in the future will not make the decisions for...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for his time today. I am raising the issue of health care for transgender people in Ireland and the widespread deficiencies that exist in terms of standards, access and trans-specific knowledge in the Irish health service. As the Minister of State will be aware, Ireland ratified the current version of the European Social Charter 18 years ago, and submits...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I will make a number of quick points. Will the Minister of State agree to look at the fact that there are separate lists for hormone replacement therapy, HRT, with cisgender people being placed on one list and transgender people being placed on another, instead of everyone being one the one list? This is causing delays. The HSE is trying to state it does not...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister, Deputy Harris, for being in the Seanad today and all of the ongoing work he is involved in, firstly as an advocate for change and also in the Department of Health in preparing for a post-eighth amendment health care service if the referendum is successful. He is very welcome, as are all his efforts in this area. I welcome the Bill and that Ireland will soon have a...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment. I thank the Minister for his time and for his engagement to date, especially on the issue of child protection as it relates to this amendment. It was raised in the Committee Stage debate on the legislation and it is great to see Government amendments in the area that I welcome overall. I am happy to see Government amendments Nos. 12 and 13, which allow for codes of...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Lynn Ruane: Does it get to the point where those codes of conduct are never drawn up because the role of the commissioner is only to encourage rather than require? That almost gives an option for the codes of conduct not to be drawn up, not to get to the point where they could be a legal requirement.