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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Global Sumud Flotilla: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Leader and the Minister of State for facilitating the discussion and adding this to the schedule today. It is extremely important that we can communicate clearly and be transparent, especially for all of the families who want to know what is going to happen, how their family members are going to be protected and what actions our Government will take to ensure the safe return of...

Seanad: Global Sumud Flotilla: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: A legal observer boat does not go all the way. It looks for human rights violations to a certain point.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise as I will have to leave the meeting for an emergency debate in the Seanad. I hope the witnesses know I support all their work. I hate to have to leave in the middle of a session. It has been incredibly difficult over the past ten years to watch the erosion of community within the area of drug services, drug treatment provision and everything that entails. I remember, while...

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Maybe we can invite the Minister for Health in to discuss the representation at another stage.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I just wanted to get some action before I left the room.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I want to again draw attention to the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is entering its most critical 24 hours on its journey to break the illegal siege of Gaza. Over the past 24 hours, I have been thinking about some of the commentary that has come from some of the countries who have shown support but called it an exclusion zone, saying that the global sumud is entering an exclusion zone, and...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It will be minuscule in comparison to Senator McDowell's. I agree with Senator McDowell's points on discretion. I had some further thoughts about a case from about ten years ago in the UK, which has a similar criminal justice system to ours. I was also thinking about the media or somebody else saying that something happened and they were held liable and brought to court for defamation. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Today, I find this Commencement matter a little difficult to think about. Before I came into the Chamber, I got word that one of the families I reference in this have not heard from their three children in Gaza since I met them last week. That mother is Bushra. I met her and her son Mohammed this day last week. There are currently ten families still awaiting reunification with their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: We must be very clear on the exact steps. An article published in The Irish Times yesterday insinuated that no one would be medically evacuated if they did not have a surviving parent to care for them. This is inaccurate. Bushra's three children did not have a surviving parent to evacuate with them. On aiding them on the other side, I do not know how to even begin to imagine a scenario...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I join my colleagues in relation to what happened to the Global Sumud. It is really concerning that there is not more uproar about the targeting of civilian boats in European waters off the coast of Crete. We are meant to be part of a European Union that is supposed to be underpinned by the principles not only of peace but also international law. It is not acceptable that we would allow...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to speak about a number of different Palestinian groups. Some have been spoken about already. I am talking about the members of the Palestinian GAA team in relation to their trip to Ireland, but also in relation to the Lajee choir group. Currently, they have had to cancel their trip to Ireland, a trip they were very much looking forward to. The word from Tel Aviv is that what seems...

Seanad: Draft Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (16 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister and I broadly welcome the commission and the Minister’s statement. It feels as though we are having the same conversation over and over again, which is incredibly difficult because language, processes and talk and the way we have to then package it, for example, in a commission or the steps we need to take, never fully feel like they match the reality of the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Some of my amendments were ruled out of order, which I kind of expected, but this amendment is similar in nature to Sinn Féin's amendment, one that I will be supporting. It relates to a report on the provision of supports to bereaved children. For as long as I have been elected, and prior to that, I have spoken about how single parents are viewed in the country historically. We had a...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. It is also worth noting that in the next term, there will be a piece of legislation that has taken me five or six years to draft because it became so complicated and just kept getting bigger and bigger. It is the child maintenance legislation which would be placed within Revenue rather than an independent agency, which we have seen potentially would not work in terms...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: No, it is okay; I fully expected it. I am okay on this occasion.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”. I am going to actually withdraw these amendments. They are consequential on the amendments that were ruled out of order, so they do...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 16, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”.