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Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is never an easy task as an Independent in opposition to get legislation all the way through the Houses. Even though it is not yet fully realised with regard to its implementation, this Bill is extremely significant in showing what can be done in the Seanad when working with Departments and finding common ground on things we need to change. I thank the Minister for that. When this issue...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use for its work over the past six months or so, although I kept a close eye on it and gave out every now and again, as you do, just to make sure the agenda was moving along. I spent the weekend dipping in and out of the hearings. At some stages, I was trying to figure out what was going on and what was being presented. Then, on Monday morning,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, sorry. I am not talking about Professor Binchy personally. I said the Pro Life Campaign. It is not propaganda. No one has ever turned up for anything I have done, or debate in the Chamber, on poverty or anything. They have never been there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: To clarify, statistically, the other countries are saying that it is wealthy, privileged white people who are most likely to avail of assisted dying. Other countries are reporting differently in relation to the vulnerability of the groups. I want to put that on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I did not say that. That is a complete misrepresentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: He proves his own point on care, does he not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: People's contributions are again being misrepresented. Nobody has said that people are better off dead. I am not comfortable with some of the comments being made. It is misrepresentation and it is not fair. The people whose views are being misrepresented should be allowed to come back in to clarify them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will be concise. Professor Binchy said in his response to Deputy Gino Kenny that sin is not in his lexicon. I am wondering what it is, in Professor Binchy's words, when somebody who is incurable ends his or her life. I ask that in the framework that we are discussing. I also ask him not to try to undermine that by putting forward the idea that we have a view that is not logical, as he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If it is not a sin, what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If it is not a sin, what is it? Professor Binchy says it should not be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Sin is a transgression. It is a moral imposition of what we feel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is the right of the others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have a certain amount of time and Professor Binchy keeps talking in long sentences instead of answering direct questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is the right that Professor Binchy is talking to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Much of it has been.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The social contract, yes. Just answer the question. Is it right or wrong to end one's life, no matter what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not right, so it is a sin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: So what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is the concern for Professor Binchy if I decide to die at the end of my life?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: How does it impact Professor Binchy's life? How does my death impact his life as a white, privileged man? He will not even think of me.