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Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Let us be realistic. It is very hard for an independent Senator to get a Bill through a load of Stages. The next time Senator Clonan gets to advance a Private Members' Bill could be six or ten months down the line and this Bill is to be stalled for 12 months. We are going into a general election. By the time the Senator gets another slot for a Private Members' Bill, it will probably be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My first question is for Professor Jones. I found the phrase "have accepted that some lives are unworthy of life" that Senator O'Loughlin picked up on to be quite problematic. It is quite stigmatising to people who have had to face difficult decisions. I am not a practising Catholic but nor would I consider myself to be an atheist as I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: On occasion, can it be in a person's best interest to die if their condition is not going to change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Where we come to there is that consent is important, once it is in their best interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If they both agree, if the patient is consenting that he or she wants to be given something to hasten death in the moment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Not if the safeguards are built in. It would then hold in the previous conversation. If a person can give consent for the withholding of treatment, in that situation the doctor still knows that the person will die. He or she may still believe, "Oh God, that's not in the best interest of this person." Therefore, the two things are the same for me. The consent remains the same in both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The egalitarian state is a funny one. I do not think any of us live in egalitarian state, regardless of whether this was introduced or not. An egalitarian state would be equal with regard to race, gender and class. We would not have a class system if we had a truly egalitarian system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is right, we can aim for it. That would mean one could access euthanasia regardless of one's race or religion, and that would also be egalitarian in a sense, once people are given the same treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I want to put this question to Professor Donnelly. I know we have gone back and forth on it in recent weeks, and it is this whole idea of the passive and active piece. I am still getting a bit stuck on the palliative piece, and the increasing of one's morphine. Is that considered to be indirect euthanasia?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, I am not criticising that. I just struggle to see, in that there seems to be a thread of difference. With the removal of treatment we are saying that is somehow passive, but that the giving of morphine at particular rates and measurements is actually an active thing. For me, it is more just what is either palpable for us to accept as "I am just relieving pain", rather than "This person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The right dose of morphine will put ease in your life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Would Professor Jones not say that some doctors suggest morphine and know that it will hasten end of life? I have been in those conversations, so I am very much aware of what happens in a room. We could have extended my father's life for three weeks had we brought him to hospital but we very much were assured that if we gave him this pain relief, and we just gave him the morphine, it would...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “ “Act of 2022” means the Electoral Reform Act 2022;”. Amendment No. 1 is a technical amendment which defines references to the Act of 2022 as meaning the Electoral Reform Act 2022, which we propose to reference within amendments Nos. 11 to 13, inclusive, in the proposed...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: On a point of order, we are speaking to amendments. We have only an hour and we have many amendments to get through in that time. This is Committee Stage and not Second Stage.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: These first amendments are not about expanding the register. A lot of time was spent talking about this aspect. We put a lot of work into scrutinising legislation and proposing amendments, trusting it reflects what we are about to do. It feels like there is a desire here, though, to say things on the record concerning what is being done on reform and what has happened already in this...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That gives me much more comfort. There was far more detail there regarding the process that are needed. I am happy to withdraw the amendment and resubmit it on Report Stage. I would not have been able to do so if the Bill had gone through the Houses sooner. I did not graduate from Trinity until 18 months after I became a Senator, so I would not be here to debate the legislation had such...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, lines 18 and 19, to delete “as determined by the Minister” and substitute “as provided for by law”. Amendment No. 2 is a technical amendment to insert ""Act of 1947" means the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947;" into the definitions section. I will come to my amendments in this grouping in due course. If we are...