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Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Okay, that is grand.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister said that removing the use of waivers was a Government decision. This is Government legislation. It is not unusual for us to look to a Minister who is taking responsibility for a Department, and who is in government and bringing Government legislation, and make the assumption that there would be conversations and decisions made by the Government around whether using a waiver is...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: But the waiver is implied.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: But for the majority of people, the waiver is implied.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: So, given the fact that the waiver is implied, it is part of this scheme and should form part of the discussion. It has been raised time and again as an issue for people in terms of what we have learned and what has worked. It is basically a contract. For a contract to stand, we are able to legislate to be able to remove the legality of having such a waiver in the first place. It creates...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise for not being here for the opening statement, but I read it in detail. I had a clash. I will go through my specific questions for each individual and I will go through all the questions before people respond because of time. I will start with Dr. Scanlon first. She has spoken about the ethical implications of AI. How, in everyday language, does the council plan to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: In thinking about fearmongering and stuff like that, I do not like the way that was framed. At the end of the day, AI, social media and even automated telephone lines are already impacting people's lives, compounding inequality and poverty and pushing people out of conversations. I need to feel that there are champions, advocates or people pushing for the element that reduces the harms AI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: You have to know what to ask it. There is a step before the asking or engagement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is another step that is missing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: We also had access to books and curriculums but things like how that was fed to us and taught to us, the bias written into it, the curriculum not being related to certain communities and its relatability, as well as teachers not being from people's own community were not considered. There are other things before the point of opportunity, which are not being acknowledged, regarding how a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The information people access is colonised to a great degree, when we look at the number of people whose work will never be printed on the Internet, published in a book or referenced in a lecture hall. It is about being able to critically engage with the thing they access, whose information it is and who owns it. Is it actually-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the latitude.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: With regard to how much is left in the fund, I have gone back over freedom of information, FOI, requests I submitted in 2017 on the specific fund in Caranua and at that stage, there was €33 million. Therefore, it would be helpful to know what happened between 2017 - I think it was around April 2017 - and now. It was really difficult at the time for survivors to engage with Caranua....

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This is more of a question, so I can come back on Report Stage. If, between now and then, we have gone from €33 million to €50,000, which would hopefully imply that there was a greater ability to access the fund, did the cap continue to apply or were people able to actually access more than the €15,000? What I am thinking now is that there were people before a cap. I...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I echo everything Senator Higgins said. In our minds, redress is about responding to the harms that the State, church or whatever institution has done. It is a response to a wrong that has been done. It is not another mechanism to silence. That is what a waiver does. With institutional abuse in this country, there was a forced silence at every turn where people could not speak about...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Recruitment, operation models, morale and pay are crucial. They will not be the things I talk about but I recognise they are paramount in their impact on other areas. There are two things I want to look at. One is around the current proposals for a diversion scheme in relation to drugs possession. What are the witnesses' thoughts on a...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Commissioner for the presentation. I have two subjects, and if I do not get to the second one, I will wait and come back in. One of them is more of a broad question around culture and how we move forward. Many other people look for more police on the street. I am constantly trying to think about how we have fewer police on the street and the need for fewer police on the...