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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Lynn Ruane: Would Irish Water seek to borrow against its assets in the future or is that a no-go scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Does Mr. Muldoon wish to contribute at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and presentation. I will take questions from all members before we revert to the witnesses. I have a number of questions, one of which has not been spoken about. I get a great many e-mails from people in the locality of a school who have been excluded on the basis that siblings or the children of parents who attended that school get a higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Does Ms Corr have any comment to make?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Will Ms Corr elaborate on the term "unit"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will invite people we have not heard much from to start, Ms Corr first, then Ms Donnelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I will come to Ms Donnelly, Ms Ní Ghréacháin and Mr. Muldoon and then we will have to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I am conscious that Mr. O'Mahony was asked a direct question by Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin. I suggest he reply to her question and then Mr. Rowe can wrap up proceedings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: On behalf of the committee, I thank the delegates for their attendance. Advocates can often be guilty of looking at the issue of access to education - I know I am - through a certain lens, which for me, obviously, is class. I have found this debate very informative, as have the rest of the members of the committee. We have been able to see all of the other barriers to having a fully...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Drugs Strategy (13 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for her time. Last week, as I was submitting this Commencement matter for debate, it struck me that what I want to discuss is how best the two briefs in the Minister of State's remit can be combined. It is no coincidence that responsibility for communities and the national drugs strategy were placed with the same Minister of State portfolio, as it seems...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Drugs Strategy (13 Dec 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to make two brief comments. I thank the Minister of State for her contribution. I reiterate how vital the community pillar is, even in underpinning the existing pillars. The vast number of contributions the Minister of State has received shows the level of community participation that is necessary. I urge the Minister of State to include it, notwithstanding any reference in the...

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

Lynn Ruane: Apologies for my late attendance but I had a prior appointment. In the delegates' opinion, what is the reason for the lack of concerted effort on the part of the education sector to pursue the national training levy, particularly given it is in surplus, and why is this not being seen as a viable option? While many people are speaking about this, there is nobody getting up in arms about it....

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

Lynn Ruane: I will tag on to that piece there. Is it not true to say that whatever the new arrangements will be with the UK and the European Union, the UK will no longer be able to lead out on research so they might have to lean on Ireland? We have a close relationship and both are English speaking countries. Will there be an arrangement whereby Ireland collaborates with England on its current and...

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.