Results 61-80 of 587 for does speaker:Lynn Ruane

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is not behaviour. The term "scumbag" does not reflect behaviour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister believe that we can have Second Stage of the Bill before an election, or within the next six to eight months?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...by drug or alcohol use, this amendment seeks to include advanced age, coupled with social isolation, within the definition of what constitutes vulnerability for the purposes of the Bill. The definition as drafted does not include a reference to disorders of the mind, like dementia. My fear is that this does not capture older persons who do not necessarily have a dementia diagnosis, but...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...even though they should have because they simply did not trust how the gardaí would respond to the situation. I know that is still the case. Some of that can be handed down historically through the generations even if a person does not directly have a negative experience with the gardaí. It can become a cultural norm generationally within the community that the relationship is...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... 12 seeks to provide an additional function for An Garda Síochána under the Bill to provide policing services with the objective of preserving safety in our communities. As drafted, the relevant section does not make reference to the duty of An Garda Síochána to promote or preserve community safety, which we feel is a missed opportunity. There are provisions that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...have all of these other principles interacting with this other principle. What if you remove the doctor from the role and the principles that govern them as a healer, as a doctor or somebody who does no harm and is there to alleviate pain but not take life? Remove all of those things, including a doctor. Is there the same negative impact on the public good, if you were to remove all of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...at the decision-making moment when it is a question of whether a person should be assisted to die. The doctor, in all the ethical glory of the profession, can say, "I think this is unethical and does harm." However, ethical decisions are made daily in the lives of people that result in harm being done by the medical profession. I have worked with many people in addiction who are at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...who get dragged from the fringes into these spaces and who may not necessarily be part of the official far right but are being exploited in that sense, we create more division and, in turn, that does not create more safety but makes it harder for us to create safety in the future.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...at, called scumbags, thugs and opportunists for burning down a Luas tram, which none of us agrees with. We have to understand that this is not traceable back to that one moment in time. Violence does not resolve violence, oppression does not resolve oppression and division does not end division, whether we like the means by which people do things or not. The problem is that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...seems to outweigh the moral integrity of the patient who has a right under law to access this if he or she meets the parameters and criteria. It is about finding the gap between those two. How does one balance the moral integrity of the individual who has a right under law with the moral integrity of another person to have a conscientious objection? That is where compromise comes in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...somebody feels ready to die. They are not afraid to die. They do not have any fears about it. They have probably lived a good life. They have met all the conditions and all the criteria. How does Dr. Donnelly define dying prematurely? Does it just mean the physical body giving up? What is the psychological aspect of someone being ready and being denied the right for a long period? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... Obviously, there will be a group of people whose existential dread and fear is associated with the idea of not being able to die within their own decision-making, and under assisted dying. How does palliative care address someone's existential fear, which is to stay alive regardless of any sort of care they are provided with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...family support, finance to meet their needs, access to medicine, all the physical supports and fully supporting the family, and still somebody could say, regardless of all of those factors, that it does not change the internal psychological factor that they still do not want their family or anybody else having to do this for them. Sometimes burden is not only about the external supports,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the prescription of the pentobarbital remains the task of [the] medical [profession]. However, there is no requirement under any Swiss law or regulation that prescription substances must be used. Does that mean off-license or unlicensed drugs are used? What exactly does that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...status quoshould change but let us imagine that scenario. It would not be ideal for us to leave a committee and think that it should or should not happen but to never discuss a scenario where it does happen without discussing what those safeguards could look like in practice. I say that without the witnesses saying they agree something should or should not happen. Let us just imagine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...boundaries that were created around abortion care in Ireland. There is the consideration that when something is introduced for one person, it automatically becomes an option for everyone. That does not mean everybody will choose the option, in the same way as applies to reproductive care and different types of medical and psychiatric care. If all the supports are in place, people are...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It does in terms of being ready to speak and the order in which you put your own documentation. You then have to begin to try to shuffle them around. I am only saying-----

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, I wish to speak on amendments Nos. 7 to 9, inclusive. In speaking to amendment No. 8, the Bill as drafted does not include a provision that would allow a person who is interacting with a member of An Garda Síochána to ask that his or her body camera be turned on. This is a significant oversight. If we leave the Bill as is, it will mean gardaí will have absolute...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...legislation will be toothless and we will be in the exactly the same position as the UK. The legislation, as drafted, creates specific penalties for destroying data collected by a body cam but it does not create any penalties for selectively turning on and off body cams, which we know to be real issues from looking at other jurisdictions. On Second Stage, I highlighted the 2021 reporting...