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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Dr. Lambert is very welcome. I will focus on violence. Particularly over the past couple of years I have begun to explore responses to violence in other jurisdictions. Ireland is potentially way behind in understanding the core drivers. People get what the core drivers of violence might be to some degree, but, to date, we have always had shaming and punitive responses to violence. Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: In respect of the victimisation piece, I do not know if Dr. Lambert agrees, but in Ireland there needs to be a better understanding that being a victim and being a perpetrator are not mutually exclusive groups. A person can be both a victim and a perpetrator. Unfortunately when it comes to men and violent crime or to violence in general in Ireland, the moment a person goes from being a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I have a final question and I will not come back in afterwards. I know I have taken up a lot of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I do not know whether it is a philosophical question or whether there is a theory on it, but my question is about the illusion of safety. I have become a little bit obsessed with the subject. When I am doing community work in certain environments, people will say that we need more police on the streets. I am aware that more police on the streets does not reduce instances of violence over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I know we only have a short time left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The answers Dr. Lambert has given are really good. She drew a distinction and referred to prevention. Basically, if somebody dies through violence, the response, as a policy, should not naturally be a harsher sentence and that is not saying the person should not be held accountable. There is obviously accountability for crimes that have happened and the fact that there is a victim. I am...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 23, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(b) a personal gaming device or console,”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: A lot of the discussion has previously happened on Committee Stage but some of the amendments we have brought forward to Report Stage are ones we felt we could not really let go at the last Stage of debate. The Minister of State stated he would come back on amendment No. 1 and that he would consider our amendment. I hope that he can accept this amendment today as he did indicate an...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 27, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(b) to take measures to reduce or eliminate compulsive or excessive gambling,”

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 3 would ensure the authority must, as part of its function, take steps to reduce problem gambling. We have listened to the Minister of State and have taken on board his views about the intention of the authority to reduce gambling harm and believe this amendment would strengthen that intention and make it very clear that the authority exists to try to eliminate problem gambling...