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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: If education was paid for through the tax system, their children would most definitely be able to access third level education because their education would be free, paid by the tax that they had paid to the State. I have a couple of questions. I say, "Well done," to Ms Hayes-Nally. She highlights whether introducing income contingent loans to young people is even morally permissible and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their time today. I will start with Mr. Donohoe. He said that business is also willing to play its part. Does that acknowledge it is not fully playing its part? Is IBEC open to an increase in the national training fund levy that will be ring fenced for higher education? Is the Irish Farmers' Association in favour of income contingent loans, which means the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move recommendation No. 6:In page 45, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"(iv) for which there may be no shared ownership, or control, in the State or internationally, between the qualifying company and the recipient of any interest or other distribution payable.". This recommendation draws on the work of Deputy Donnelly during the Report Stage debate on the Bill in the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will withdraw it and resubmit it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move recommendation No. 8:In page 71, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(3) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the offset of losses, carried forward from preceding accounting periods, for which relief is available in succeeding accounting periods, setting out the costs of tax...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: No, I will withdraw it until Report Stage.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (7 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will. I welcome the Minister. I would like to speak on the divestment of investments in fossil fuels and the movement we are seeing developing globally, which has begun to find success here in Ireland recently. I applaud the work of the Fossil Free campaigning group from Trinity College Dublin, which, after a well-executed campaign, has received a commitment from the college authorities...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I may seek to table an amendment on Report Stage, either to this section or one of the others, regarding lone parents and maintenance payments. We discussed this issue previously but there is no mention of it in the Bill. This ties in with welfare dependency and poverty rates when women are means tested against child maintenance payments ordered by the court that they do not receive. Has...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"Child benefit – amendment 14.Part 4 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 220:"Regulations 220A.Regulations may provide for requiring an employer to give such information to the Minister as he or she may require for the purposes of determining...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate the Minister's response. The amendment covers all the scenarios he mentioned. I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to table it on Report Stage after some thought on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I agree with the majority of what Deputy O'Brien said, apart from the authorised user piece. Although I agree with the whole point around data and anonymity, I think the continuum of care which Professor Bury spoke about is very important. While we do not want to always track people through the service, in order to provide that step-by-step care they might need, if they choose to move on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I imagine it would be for any sort of holistic needs assessment or safety-net service. Hopefully, it is people who are equipped and well used to working within the hostel services who would staff these facilities, such as anyone training under those like Dr. Austin O'Carroll and Dr. Fiona O'Reilly. The assessment when people first access the service should not rely on their being registered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I have a few comments and questions. I will be honest and say that I felt a great level of discomfort when we moved on to the policing presentation. I have worked in the addiction field and in the homeless sector for a long time. I find the words "policing this facility" distressful in that I would question why anybody would want to use a facility that is being policed in the first place....

Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to share time with Senator Alice Mary Higgins.

Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I support this motion wholeheartedly. The purpose of the amendment confuses me. It asks the bank to explain why it has closed a bank account, which is something it has already refused to do. It did not meet the campaign group in question when it wanted to shut its account down. It is a worrying sign that one of our national financial institutions has judged that it has the power to cut...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nicola Sturgeon (29 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the First Minister. I have a question on third level funding. There is a debate in the country on how we should fund our third level sector, which has been in crisis for a number of years. The debate on this has come heavily down on income contingent loans, to which I am completely opposed. I believe in a publicly funded education system. Will the First Minister make reference to...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: In the coming weeks there will be an official announcement on the leadership shown by Trinity College Dublin in divesting from the use of fossil fuels. This would be the perfect time to invite the Minister for Communications, Climate Change and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, to come to the House to discuss how this policy could have a more far-reaching impact in other sectors. The...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. I will refer to child benefit amendment shortly. I have listened to the debate today. It is always the case when we talk about the budget, the economy and those who are most vulnerable that we, in these Houses, talk about the situation in a very abstract sense, which is what upsets me most. We talk about meals for children going to school but we never actually talk...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: It was.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: The child benefit amendment stood out for me most. I went back over the Dáil debate and the reason given by the Minister for the amendment, specifically in regard to the Department of Social Protection being able to extract information from employers regarding a person working in the State or not. This affects employees who are not ordinarily from Ireland but who are working here and...