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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I raised this issue in the committee. It would be on the Minister's radar. I thought there might be some crossover or intersection where a person is 18 and leaving care. Some people, when they leave care at 18, might not necessarily avail of one of the aftercare housing schemes and so on. Some may not come under the umbrella of what falls under the Minister's Department. I may be wrong...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, after line 34, to insert the following: “Report on income adequacy of lone parent families 21.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on the income inadequacy of lone parent households, including an analysis of...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I was not aware that amendment No. 7 was in the earlier grouping and had already been discussed with amendment No. 1.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Okay, I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I was going to come in on amendment No. 15.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 15 seeks a report on the restoration of the right to retire at 65. This right is fundamental to our social contract. For several years now, we have been bombarded by messaging around how unaffordable our current pension system is. We are being steadily primed by conservative voices to accept the degradation of something so fundamental to our comfort and dignity as humans,...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 13: “Report on extending eligibility for long-term carer’s qualifying contributions 46. (1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for extending eligibility for long-term carer’s qualifying contributions to...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 25, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Report on expanding recognition of long-term carer’s qualifying contributions 46.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for expanding recognition...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 15: In page 30, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on restoring right of persons aged 65 years to retire on State pension (contributory) 48.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for restoring the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 16: In page 30, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on equality impacts of deferred pensionable age 48.(1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on the distributional and equality impacts of the deferred...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I understand the voluntary nature of the proposal and that every scenario cannot be legislated for but I am thinking of households comprising a widow or a man on his own, where the only payment coming in is that person's pension and there is no pooling. In that scenario, the man may not have had the type of job where he could pay into a pension. He may have worked a very working-class job...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses. I concur with a lot of what Deputy Farrell just said. I know Dr. Cranfield probably thought she was illustrating one thing but it further cemented another thing for me, which was the phases of intervention and how they may change over time. The interventions are probably as transient as the want to die in the sense that our condition can change and increase and our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What about for those who do not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Would Dr. Cranfield sit with them if assisted dying was legal and they asked for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As an individual who understands death, can Dr. Cranfield imagine herself not sitting with someone who chose to die differently than she imagined for him or her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What if it includes the option that is being made legal, which is assisted dying? Does Dr. McQuillan then see herself removing herself from the room?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Statistically, if we look at how many people die by the time they get the hospice care, it is usually right at the end of life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not mean for younger people who end up in a hospice but people with what are usually end-of-life conditions such as a cancer diagnosis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What percentage of cancer patients, for example, at end of life would end up in hospice care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If that percentage of people were in hospice care, they will potentially die in a hospice and that is the reason they are there, and if they chose under a legalised model that they want assisted dying, and, say, their proximity to death is fairly close and they want to bring that forward, is Dr. Doré saying under a legalised model that hospice would say it would not facilitate that?