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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: The legislation does not refer to one year's growth. The legislation refers to growing out. This is simply misinformation.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I felt very insulted by the Minister's comments when she insinuated that the Bill was too complex and complicated and that she would explain it to us. I want to assure her that everybody in this Seanad has gone through this legislation line by line and that is why there are so many amendments. We do understand it. It is not too complicated for us. What is complicated to understand is why...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Will the Leader call on the Minister for Health - perhaps it is the Minister of State with responsibility for drugs, although I believe it is the former - to attend the House to debate methadone protocol and the General Medical Services, GMS, contracts? In places around Ireland, for example, Newbridge in County Kildare, there is an 18-month waiting list for a methadone service. The farther...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: It appears that universities are in some way advocating an income-contingent loan. Is that based on a lack of faith in the State to provide? I assume the universities would not reject the payment if it came from the State so is it in the absence of a belief that the State will provide a sustainable, publicly-funded system? Do the witnesses see the income-contingent loan as a quicker source...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: It is just two quick points. Perhaps Professor Deeks can refer to the Australian model and being there to witness the transition there. What was the economic environment in that country at the time that was introduced? Obviously, we are starting from a very different position in Ireland with home owner debt, bank debt and the massive cost of housing, all of which has an impact within a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witness for the presentation. I have one question, probably to gain more understanding. I have far more knowledge of the university sector than of the IT sector, so I am curious. I welcomed this presentation more than I welcomed the last one, with the heavy emphasis on income contingent loans. What difference in terms of impact would they have? The university sector sees them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I am mindful we have not looked at the options put forward. Level 6 and 7 courses have free fees and they usually last three years. Will the institutes also consider looking at level 8 courses of three year duration for people who do not do a level 6 or 7 course but go straight into a level 8 course? Trinity College Dublin is the only institution with set four-year courses. In Trinity the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I am somewhat confused about why the scheme is being called a pilot scheme. I have worked in research for years. We have always carried out pilot schemes to research how well an idea works. However, there is nothing for us to compare this with. There is no pre-test or post-test analysis. The Minister is going straight into the post-test plan. A baseline study should be set out to allow...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I would like to raise a number of matters today. First, I congratulate the Union of Students in Ireland for having got more than 10,000 people out on the streets yesterday in the fight for both free education and access to education and to show students' distaste at the possibility of third-level loans. I know the education committee is due to discuss the Cassells report, but something must...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I would also like the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to come before the House to discuss a disgraceful article he wrote in which he suggests that we should have a school in the inner city only for the children of international bankers. I could not believe what I was reading, that a Fine Gael Minister of State would suggest widening the huge deprivation...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Senator Mark Daly for bringing the Bill before the House. I am delighted to be here on the second or third occasion it is debated and to, hopefully, see it pass. I would also like to thank Dr. John Bosco Conama and everyone from the Centre for Deaf Studies in Trinity College for their work on this Bill and their ongoing dedication to fighting for equality for the deaf community....

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

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

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister, Deputy Zappone, for her statement to the Seanad and I thank her for taking the time to speak to us in the House. I would like to broadly welcome the child care subsidy package that was announced as part of the budget last week, and I welcome the Minister's work on making this change a reality.As a first step, it represents a significant shift in policy making,...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Seanad Independent group for using their Private Members' time for this crucial Bill. It is the first Bill that I and many others in the House put their names to as Senators. I reiterate my strong support for its proposed reforms. Seanad Éireann has no mandate to continue in its current form. Every Senator sitting in the House following its retention by the Irish people...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I express my solidarity with the women of Poland who engaged in a public strike on Monday to register their justified opposition to the measures currently being debated in the Polish Parliament to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already places significant barriers to women who need to access an abortion. It is unacceptable that an abortion access regime that already...

Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to share time with Senators Frances Black and Colette Kelleher.

Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Senator Higgins for bringing this motion before the House. No matter how we look at CETA, it is clear the agreement undermines the public good and threatens public services, everything from health and energy to social services and transport. We should not now or ever see the provision of essential public services as a potential market, whereby corporations can make a profit. Trade...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 26 – Department of Education and Skills (29 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I notice there is an all-male panel but I am sure there are some female experts in the Department. I spent a lot of time reading the documents and there should be an easier way for them to reported. Instead of putting all the budgets into one and trying to figure out where all the expenditure goes, Departments should break the expenditure up into second level and third level separately. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 26 – Department of Education and Skills (29 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: -----are resources being allocated for this? If another body is doing such work, maybe the money could be better spent elsewhere. I have loads of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 26 – Department of Education and Skills (29 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: It is not recognised as being the same as dyslexia because if it was, provisions would be made for it in the leaving certificate in the same way.