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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is there any research relating to healthcare workers watching a patient refuse treatment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Even though one is legal and one is not, and one expresses a positive right to refuse, I think we just imagine them as a dying process without placing them in the legal context. In the view of clinicians, is there not potentially a nicer way to die than by refusing treatment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Something very interesting was said about safeguards in response to Deputy Higgins. It concerned how many safeguards already exist. There definitely needs to be a recommendation on behalf of the committee or a recommendation to the Government on all the other relevant legislation, including on decision-making capacity. As the safeguarding legislation is awaited, maybe there is something in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The witnesses must have looked at other models and hope that certain things are or are not suggested, if there is going to be a suggestion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: They are here as experts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Why have them then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: We are having a discussion about assisted dying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The scandal will happen if we introduce something and the HSE says, "Oh my God, I cannot believe they went with that".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If people have policy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Well it is my slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If people have policy experience-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If we were discussing drug policies, people from the Department and from the social inclusion area would talk about which drug policies are best and those that are not good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am not saying to do this to create legislation or policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am saying they might be able to inform the committee of the practices in other countries and what would cause the least amount of harm. That is very different from telling them to go and create something. It is more of an acknowledgement of their expertise in the area so that we can be more informed as a committee going forward.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise if I have to leave when the witnesses are responding. I am a member of the justice committee and we are working in a similar vein, on facial recognition technology at 4 o'clock. I will look back at the Official Report but I wanted to apologise in advance. Professor O'Sullivan highlighted some of the UNICEF guidelines, one of which related to providing transparency,...

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

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise in advance for pressing for concise answers but the time constraint is not helpful in one sense, although it means I have to look for yes-no answers. The first question is to the Garda Commissioner. I am looking for a simple answer. Does he oppose judicial overview of FRT?

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

Lynn Ruane: I am asking with specific reference to facial recognition technology, which will not only be on seized devices. This is in terms of having to get judicial approval for access.

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

Lynn Ruane: Therefore, the Commissioner does not oppose specifically referencing judicial approval in regard to this legislation.

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

Lynn Ruane: It is a completely new technology so surely, with everything else, the Commissioner would prefer to have judicial approval of FRT so it stands in regard to the Bill being legal in the first place.

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

Lynn Ruane: I have read the submission. It is a simple question. Does the Commissioner oppose us drafting judicial approval for FRT into this specific legislation?