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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.

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

Lynn Ruane: There are no provisions made in the leaving certificate for someone with dyscalculia, therefore, there are no reduced points, even with a diagnosis from the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. Until reservations are made for people at leaving certificate level, it always will be seen as a lesser disability.

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 completely agree with my colleagues on the third-level sector and the immediate need for interim funding while we review the Cassells report, especially in light of the figures which suggest that there has been an increase of approximately 10% in the past two to three academic years. This figure is set to continue to grow. On the issue of access to education and the piece that appears...

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

Lynn Ruane: On the Minister's point regarding the need to sharpen the weighting for funding in terms of access and so on, I believe we first need to overhaul access from second level to third level in terms of how the Department divides up the colleges versus the schools. Currently, the colleges have no say in this regard, as the links were set years ago by the Department and have never been reviewed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Educational Research Centre: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (7 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I do not know whether the questions are really appropriate, but some points jumped out at me in the contribution of Dr. Travers. I know Ireland does relatively well in the PISA scores. We are approximately 17th globally. However, we fall down elsewhere. Approximately 15% of Irish people have not reached a basic skill level in mathematics and science. Has the ERC done much research in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Educational Research Centre: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (7 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: I have a suggestion, which is possibly something the Educational Research Centre is already examining. We look at what we need to provide for students in terms of resilience, numeracy and literacy, but I have been working on a programme and there is probably research I could tie in to it. It is with regard to the teacher training curriculum. Dr. Travers stated some of the research impacts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Educational Research Centre: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (7 Sep 2016)

Lynn Ruane: Early intervention is crucial but there is a lack of acknowledgement of dyscalculia as being a learning disability in the same way as dyslexia is recognised. Early intervention happens but in DEIS schools resources and acknowledgement are not available to diagnose somebody with dyscalculia. My daughter has dyscalculia but I had to find funds to bring her to the Dyslexia Association of...