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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(d) is requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties,”.

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 12: In page 11, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Additional provisions regarding operation of cameras affixed to, or part of, an aerial vehicle 11.Reasonable measures shall be taken to ensure that the use of any camera affixed to or part of an aerial vehicle, manned or unmanned, shall be overt and clearly identifiable as being Garda...

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

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 11, after line 35, to insert the following: “(e) turns off, or causes not to be operated, a recording device to knowingly and purposefully conceal the use or misuse of force,”.

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

Lynn Ruane: I will speak to all of the amendments in this grouping. Amendment No. 14 would make it an offence for a garda to turn off their body camera or cause it not to be operating in the first instance to knowingly and purposefully conceal the use or misuse of force. The Minister advised during Committee Stage discussions that she could not accept this amendment because placing the circumstances...

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

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. In the codes of practice there is a process whereby somebody will have to be answerable as to when a camera is turned on or off and there will be disciplinary procedures. When I consider this I must weigh up turning on or off a camera merely being a disciplinary procedure against an individual who may be impacted and their case, their life or their trial. I understand...

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

Lynn Ruane: Are there definitions of what the information entails?

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

Lynn Ruane: May I make one point?

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

Lynn Ruane: It will determine whether I press the amendment to a vote. I might actually save the Chair time.

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

Lynn Ruane: My point relates to the reference to harmful effect in section 62 of Garda Síochána Act 2005. I was glancing through the legislation as the Minister was speaking. It states it is an offence to disclose information if the person knows its disclosure is likely to have a harmful effect. If I do not push these amendments, could we consider section 62 between now and when we come back...

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

Lynn Ruane: That would fall under lawful sharing.

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

Lynn Ruane: Now.

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?