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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not agree with nature taking its course because if one goes back to the invention of palliative care, medicalising death has already happened in how we prolong life at a particular stage or give medication. Allowing something to take its natural course does not include morphine or painkillers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why does it? That is also a human invention. How is that the natural course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why is the capacity of one's mind to choose to die not part of the natural course? If we can say that all these instances and external things form part of nature, then some people's minds and their capacity to choose something is also within that field of nature.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not, actually.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Their natural course from what point in life? Going back to the natural course of what? They are slowly moving closer and closer to death. Maybe they are becoming more incapacitated. What does Dr. Doré mean about returning to their natural-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is because the person asked, it is not the reason for seeking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Of course, but what I am saying is that people are not given assisted suicide based on the fact that they arrive and say they are a burden.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Of course.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I agree with Senator Moynihan's comments about the importance of protecting people’s home addresses. The Minister of State is welcome to the House. There has been much discussion about the role of the new Electoral Commission in devising these boundaries. I will not rehash what has been said. I will be tabling amendments on Committee Stage which do not relate to the schedule but to...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am sorry to interrupt but if you have never been elected, you will have not a constituency office.

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

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. On Monday, a man in the prison system who has been both a victim of violence throughout his life, including in his childhood, and a perpetrator of violence, which led him to the prison system, directed me to somebody I had not previously come across in my work, although the Minister might have done so. His name is Professor James Gilligan. I have spent a lot of time...

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

Lynn Ruane: In every academic study, poverty is indicated as the main driver of violence and crime. Ending poverty does not begin at eight or nine; it is a societal thing. Keeping that in mind, I understand the interventions to which the Minister refers, but the whole picture shows that the narrower the gap between rich and poor in a country, the fewer instances of violence and crime there. What,...

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

Lynn Ruane: Regarding the far right, there is a huge number of historical studies going back to French fascism. I am not a French speaker but Maurice Bardèche - however you pronounce his name – defined himself as a Fascist writer. He is dead now but in the sixties he wrote a book and explained exactly what right wing is because he was talking about himself quite proudly. The definitions...

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

Lynn Ruane: That is the problem.

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

Lynn Ruane: That is the problem. That is the misunderstanding, because there is. Rationality and reason do not intersect in a moment like that when someone has been ostracised for years. The Minister would have to literally have done a study of all of those people who engaged. She would need to have had several therapeutic interventions with all of those people who engaged to understand their intent...

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

Lynn Ruane: I have not excused it.

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

Lynn Ruane: I am saying the problem is that if we do not ask the “Why?”, it will never end.