Results 81-100 of 587 for does speaker:Lynn Ruane

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

Lynn Ruane: ...reason or somebody could end up with a certain sentence that could have been very different had there been impartial evidence. The fact that a Garda goes through a disciplinary procedure does not protect the civilian who may be tasked with trying to prove something outside the realm of what has been captured in footage. I can accept that the procedures will allow for gardaí to be...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...managing to take that research as far as we possibly could, given the climate of secrecy. What I am also happy about is that, in talking to the Minister and hearing his contribution today, my Bill does not go far enough in some situations in incorporating the idea of NDAs being pre-emptive, for example, in contracts. It would be great, as we move forward, to be able to continue to tease...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...a larger conversation on the reasons we stop and search someone. People can still be stopped and searched if they are suspected of selling drugs, are suspected of having a weapon or are suspected of having robbed something. It does not stop. Reading the recommendations over the weekend, it gave me huge hope and excitement to see what will happen over the next six months. Even though we...

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: ...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 keeps saying. He can say that all he wants but it does not make it true. It is logical that one can create frameworks where one cohort of people can avail of something and another cannot. We do it in other areas of medicine. We do it when we...

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.

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

Lynn Ruane: It is not true that it all impacts other people. It does not. It impacts the immediate people around a person and if one puts in the safeguards, then one protects the people who are most vulnerable. It is not fair to keep saying that it is logical. Professor Binchy believes it is a divine right to protect life. It is better if we can have that conversation, if Professor Binchy believes...

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

Lynn Ruane: I do not actually put videos on YouTube, if Senator Mullen wants to look. I would appreciate if he started respecting my contribution. Just because he does not like it does not mean he has to dismiss it.

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

Lynn Ruane: Now Professor Binchy knows how Deputy Kenny felt, does he not?

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

Lynn Ruane: It does it anyway.

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

Lynn Ruane: It does not, because it does not give an inherent right.

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

Lynn Ruane: ...for attending. As I only have a few minutes, I will ask three questions. Dignity has been mentioned a few times today and has been consistently raised in the more general conversation. What does Professor Binchy understand by dignity? What is dignity? When we look at this historically over time, right back to Rousseau and Kant, many different thinkers have addressed how we morally...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to table a large number of amendments outside of the subject matter of this Bill in the Dáil without proper scrutiny in the Seanad. It is a practice which has become more common but it is one that does a great disservice to the role of the Seanad in making and scrutinising law. Let us come to my amendment, Dáil amendment No. 15. I have a concern that by deleting the word...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...of this to both leases and licences relating to historic monuments and archaeological heritage granted under the Act, or by explaining on the record of the Oireachtas why the Minister of State does not propose to do so and by explaining the gaps which will, therefore, arise in the implementation of the access to justice obligations. The second issue is that the way the Environmental...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...transmissions, where such development is the subject of an application for permission made to the board under section 291. What was the rationale for this amendment? In what circumstances does the Minister of State envisage it being used? Amendment No. 27 also amends the new section 247 of the Bill. It proposes to insert a new section 182AA into the Planning and Development Act 2000 by...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ..., or where there may be some crossover. Can the Minister of State clarify whether the restriction only applies to official functions as councillors, such as attending and voting at meetings, or does it attempt to go after all functions, including more informal functions such as clinics? On reading this amendment, it appears that to apply to, say, party members and particular party policy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...misconduct here in Ireland. Before that Bill comes in, I urge people to look at that report because it clarified somewhat the concerns I had with the use of body cameras. It shows how easily they can be misused, and that a civilian does not have the same rights as to how that recording device is used. The Minister's response at the time was that the gardaí would have to explain why...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...of the future of policing commission's report. Notwithstanding the extent of the recommendations made by the commission, we have been waiting a long time for the ensuing reforms. While this Bill does not make legislative provisions that act on all of the commission's recommendations, it is nonetheless quite ambitious in scope. For the purpose of today's debate, I will try to keep my...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the intergenerational aspect. Some people believe it is just a matter of the person needing to know that college is accessible to him or her, but it is so much more than that. Sometimes, attending college does not enter your arena of thought as a possibility for you to even begin thinking about what the barriers to access are. There are many barriers that make it more difficult for...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...never mind an actual degree. We are encouraging kids to do LCA, which can be a great programme if it is done properly, but we are not even letting them into access programmes based on an LCA. It does not make any sense. An access programme should be the widest possible opportunity to take in any number of students. I will finish on this. A piece of a research was published yesterday in...