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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I have one question, and it relates to the last question asked by Deputy Connolly. My concern is about the letters regarding their right to appeal and the number of people that received them. As the witnesses know the names of the survivors to whom those letters were sent, can they give a commitment to write to all of them informing them of their right to appeal and the process due to them?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: Effectively, however, if someone is being left in limbo-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I refer to the live applications and the prioritisation. People are being prioritised based on new applicants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: The applications from the older applications are not being assessed. They are being left in limbo because of the prioritisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: In a sense, it is an indirect decision because the ongoing needs of that person are not being met and the fund was set up to meet their ongoing needs. If their application is being put on the long finger, their needs might be immediate, which means they are not being assessed on the merits of their application. They are being assessed on prioritisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I have a case of a 75 year old woman who I will not name. She sought help for a hip replacement and dental care and she is still trying to communicate with Caranua to get it to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I should not have to do that. It should work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: If it has not worked-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: No, the waiting list.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I had intended to initiate a Bill to be taken in our Private Members' time next Wednesday but there was a mix up with the Bills Office last night. It seems I cannot initiate the Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill but it will be presented next Wednesday. I understand I only need the signatures of Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and the Leader to allow that to happen. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I hope I am wrong and I will remain open to seeing what the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, does in his term of office but I am very concerned and disappointed by many of his comments throughout his campaign.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I join Senator Boyhan in inviting the Minister for Social Protection to come to the House to discuss the two specific issues highlighted by the Senator. I would like to mention another issue with payments, the effects of which women are most vulnerable to. Under the current system in Ireland, women are ordered by the one-parent family system to go to court to seek maintenance from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. I tried as best I could to dissect them before the meeting but I did not understand some of the figures and I will seek clarification on them. The moment we allow the State to even step out slightly in respect of education, we will move towards the privatisation of our education system, which will not be a positive. I would like Dr. Corbet and Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: The suggestion is that the fees would be raised by €2,000 if income contingent loans were introduced. Therefore, those figures are wrong because they are based on €4,000 a year while the fees would actually go up to €5,000 per year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: There is no positive effect on it either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: Is it fair to say that the effect of the student loan means those who come from poorer backgrounds are the ones burdened with the debt more so than the person whose family can afford to pay upfront? It is not about inequity of access to college but an inequality in terms of who is left burdened with debt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I am talking about children whose parents pay upfront. They do not have the debt. They do not have the loan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: No. It still matters to the child who has no choice in such matters. We need a system to ensure that when a family's earning power falls below a certain amount that there is an option not to pay fees. The free fees system simply shifts the wealth to grinds and private school fees. The exact same thing will happen if we introduce income-contingent loans. The poor children will be the only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: If a person stops paying because he or she leaves the workforce, would the State and whoever is administering the loans just him or her alone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Lynn Ruane: The authorities would not keep checking in to encourage the person back into the workforce in order to pay his or her loan, which would be quite intimidating?