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Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate that.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: We will proceed to Senator Fitzpatrick, who was not here for our four-minute rounds. We might just restart the clock.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is a referral. Since it does not involve a court system, have the police power to compel somebody to go to a diversion service?

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I believe that everyone is in agreement that the housing issue will come up and especially in the work of Dr. Ivers around that recovery capital piece. If the person cannot access housing then he or she is already at a deficit. Drugs possession is in the most serious category. No matter how simple the possession is, it is currently in the category with serious sexual crimes, murder, and...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: How would Mr. Reid have cast it? I am only messing.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That did not answer the query about an alternative question that only looked at the models used in the likes of Malta and Germany rather than legalisation in a universal sense. They are different questions.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is not within the legalisation model, but all drugs are to be decriminalised equally according to the model of the citizens’ assembly.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Mr. O’Neill. As the chair of the citizens’ assembly, is there any question that was not asked today that Mr. Reid wish had been in terms of what he would like to see happen?

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I was just checking. I thank the witnesses. This meeting has been informative. It makes sense that they be the first people in the room over the coming seven months. I thank them for their work and the clarity they have provided so far. We are grateful. I ask committee members to remain in the room so that we might go into private session. We will then adjourn until Thursday, 20...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The final part is the most important part there. The groups involved felt their analysis had been done and then there had been radio silence rather than a response to it. The insight that those with the expertise required to review the findings are currently reviewing them is helpful. Will the Minister of State relay to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, that it might be helpful if he gave an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Okay. Thank you.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The site at Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, County Tipperary, was home to one of Ireland's most infamous mother and baby homes, operational from 1931 to 1969. During this time, 6,414 women were admitted and 6,079 children were born there. Within two years of it opening, it was acknowledged that there was a problem with infant mortality and the congregation sent a representative to investigate...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I second the motion. In our thousands and in our millions we are all Palestinian. I once read that humans are wired for interconnectedness and interdependence and not for conflict or killing each other. This is why the chant, in our thousands and in our millions we are all Palestinians, deeply resonates with me and what I believe is the essence of what it means to be human. Right now we...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Inspections already happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Do we not get to choose, as a committee, what way we do pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach and Deputy O'Callaghan. Obviously, this is a very important topic. Unfortunately, I am all too familiar with the impact of knife crime from my own life experiences from both ends - both in terms of the loss of life and in terms of people quite close to me who regretted carrying knives at a young age and their use. I will refrain from going into that but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Was it amnesties and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Community sanctions and stuff.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Middle East Issues (21 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Today, we ask the Minister of State to speak specifically on the consideration the Department has given to the request and when a decision can be anticipated. In response to a written question raised by Deputy Cronin regarding the flotilla, the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, set out the general procedures on providing the flags for the vessels. This is information we already know. We...