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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is the 99% based on how many times it does not match?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What does that mean? I am short of time. Let us say there are ten people and it has been tested against ten faces. Two people have come up wrong and eight people have come up as having not been matched at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...identified and then run through a system to measure them against lots of other faces but An Garda Síochána seems to be saying that no reference point is going to be used for facial recognition technology. That does not make very much sense. If anybody has watched the last session, will they use their expertise to clarify whether there is some sort of misunderstanding in those...

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The section grants sweeping powers to the Minister to make "regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act". The provision is unduly broad and does not put in place adequate guardrails that would limit ministerial discretion in respect of such regulations. I accept further regulation may well be needed and would indeed be welcome on a number of issues. Our...

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...any information about what would be required of her once she had identified him. She did not know there would be a requirement for her to open the inquest. That is a piece of information that does not help somebody process trauma and plan what is going to be required of them in this process. Within a few days, she opened the inquest, asked if there was going to be information shared...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...are] compiled and stored". This is not an adequate provision as statistics are of limited use if they do not provide insights into the nuances of criminal behaviour. Simply counting the number of crimes committed does not provide any useful insight into the drivers of crime and, therefore, how to prevent it. It is difficult to understand or to prove inequality in the justice process...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...held liable for certain acts. The section, as drafted, provides that where a garda commits an actionable wrong, the Commissioner can be held liable for certain damages. Subsection (5) includes a qualifier that the liability does not extend to wrongs committed by the use of mechanically propelled vehicles which belong to the State. This simple amendment seeks to change the wording of the...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Subsection (5) contains the qualifier that the liability does not extend to wrongs committed by the use of a mechanically propelled vehicle which belongs to the State.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...or family resource centres, are somehow mentioned specifically within the guidelines because that is the gap between the people we say we want to keep safe at a community level in order that it does not seem like a top-down approach. We have to write into the guidelines the bottom-up approach with the same strength and vigour we write in the bottom-down approach as regards local...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...organisations are not on that same footing. They will be in guidelines. The power imbalance there is stark because then those statutory organisations get to name who is in and who is out. It does not seem to give any power to some of the community organisations, whether they be voluntary or community reps. They nearly have to advocate their way or wait for someone to appoint them....

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...community safety partnerships, a review of the effectiveness and resourcing of the local community safety partnerships would have to take place. The aim of this amendment is to ensure that legislation does not pre-empt the outcome and evaluation of the piloting of the local community safety partnership model. The piloting of this model in the north inner city is currently under way. It...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...family, of course we need to change that so all families are included. My daughters have two different Dads. Their Dads have other children from later relationships and my daughter's siblings are also their family but the Constitution does not recognise that as so. Jaelynne and Jordanne each have their siblings. The family is wider. Do I want us all to move in together and start...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Sorry, it does discriminate.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...to a window's pension.She was not considered for that. However, while he was alive, they were considered as a partnership, taking care of children in every other way until that. Therefore, it does discriminate. Our policies have existed based on the ideals the country set out all those years ago, of how we want to live together, how we want to be together, what we value and what we do...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It does tell them where their place is. I did not interrupt Senator McDowell's hour-long lecture. I felt like I was in a law lecture in UCD or something. However, Senator Keogan has twice intervened in my contribution. I ask her to show respect and not do so anymore. The Constitution says that a woman's place is in the home because it seeks to protect it with full force, nearly because it...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...of men. They are literally part of the conversation. I think it is inaccurate to do that because it is unfair to the actual amendments. Our amendment states, "between parent and child". It does not state, "between mother and child". If this were about removing men from any conversation these amendments would say mother and child. They clearly say that durable relationship should...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That does not relate to mothers.

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...me not to interrupt him as he would with anybody else, but he did not. He chose very specific wording. I was not shouting. I was saying that the provision he was referencing in the Constitution does not reference mothers. That is all I said and he told me to calm down. He should reflect on that, because it was quite misogynistic. I turn to our amendment and removal of the reference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...not alternatives, where it must be one or the other, and discuss that from his own experience? He said he has been involved in co-ordinating and consulting for patients requesting access. What does co-ordination and consultation look like? It seems that all of the people involved in that consultation process are in different settings. Does he visit those settings? Are they all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...terminal illness comes as an extension, you have particular organ failure, for example, your lungs are giving up. They are all based on the disability, so I wonder how you create a framework that does not exclude them when they are associated.