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Seanad: Parole (Special Advocates) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Parole Act 2019 to provide for the appointment of special advocates to represent the interests of relevant applicants in certain cases before the Parole Board, and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Parole (Special Advocates) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Next Tuesday.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I extend congratulations to Ms Brennan on her new role. I understand that questions may need to be directed elsewhere while she gets to grips with that. When I think of the future of the drugs court, a part of me says, "No, there is no future for the drugs court." That is the little reaction I had, but I had to rewind and say that under what it is hoped will be a decriminalised model, the...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: An individual would not move past bronze if he or she did not remove the primary substance.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Progress is not subjective then. It is about making sure that language matches action. Reducing from ten bags a day to three bags a day will massively change somebody's life. It would be hoped that the person would progress. That might form part of the review so that those two things match. If the idea of going onto a silver phase is the golden bullet, for what of a better term, if...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Would Mr. Duffin amend the current legislation to include consumption in general but also potentially mobile consumption rooms?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I want to discuss dissuasion and what that can potentially look like in terms of the mechanisms in an Irish context. I am becoming more and more concerned each week when I hear Sinn Féin's contributions to the discussion on drug decriminalisation, with all due respect to my colleagues. This is a committee where we are focusing on the individual, and the individual harm of a drug...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am sorry, can I just come in?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I ask that some members of Sinn Féin look back at their contributions over the last few weeks.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is not a conspiracy.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: This is ridiculous.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: They are not two separate groups of people. People who use drugs have sold drugs. The Deputy is talking about people who have been groomed into drug dealing. They are all the same group. It is the same group of people.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If you understood poverty, you would understand they are the same group.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Who are the nefarious characters?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: There is no group of bogeymen. That is what I am saying.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Do you think they are not individuals who came through the same hardships? You cannot separate them.

Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I join with everyone's comments on the positive nature of the Bill before us. It is extremely welcome. While I want to focus on the positivity of one part of the Bill, and I am very glad it has been given the priority it needs, it is very difficult to weigh it up and give it the credit it deserves because I must also acknowledge the absence of reference to the NDAs which also affect...