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Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Committee Work Programme (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, I am not finished. We only refuted-----

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Committee Work Programme (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: -----from that anyway. Preparation for me is why it is important.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Committee Work Programme (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As regards the conservation piece, it is unacceptable for the Government to interfere in parliamentary scrutiny of the statutory instruments on conservation. There is a litany of examples where Ireland is failing to transpose environmental directives. Not only are we incurring fines; we are also damaging the environment. It is upon this committee to be able to scrutinise those directives....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is okay if people do not get to come back in. Sometimes I only say things that are referenced in my reports in order to get them on the record. There were some matters in regard to PIAB. I understand that a jury would not be involved there, but it may be important to tease out a mandatory-type model and a voluntary-type model and outline how a person could indicate whether he or she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Mr. Foley is smiling at the politicians. I would like to tune into that smile and see why.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The Senator used up his three minutes speaking rather than cutting it short.

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: recognises that: - seeking asylum is a fundamental right under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; - every person’s right to seek asylum in a safe country is enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; notes with concern that: - an estimated 27,000...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am sharing time with Senator Black. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, to the House. The Civil Engagement Group has tabled this motion because for a long time we have been deeply concerned about the way in which Europe has hardened its borders over the past decade, in our capacity as both European citizens and European parliamentarians. As Europeans, this hardening of borders...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I also note that many European politicians decried the role of traffickers in the shipwreck that occurred near Greece this month. Let us be very clear; the best way to combat trafficking is to ensure safe routes so that people can have their asylum claims heard in Europe.If safe routes were provided, traffickers would have no business model and so it is the duty of Europe to provide those...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I find it absolutely infuriating to listen to people in the one breath talk about the value of life, the value of migrants, how they should be treated, the value of their work and contributions when they get here and then, on the other hand stand with a European Union that does use EU money, through the trust fund for Africa, to intercept boats at sea. We can make the stretch and say that it...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Tell me how breaking the business model of smugglers has anything to do with search and rescue. We talk about the protection of vulnerable migrants, but it is as if they are not vulnerable unless they end up on our doorstep. We do not want to recognise their vulnerability in the sea. We do not want to recognise their vulnerability in the detention centres we are forcing them to stay in...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It does not matter how far back in the system we go; we are responsible. Today we have a Government, which is not supporting a motion that calls for search and rescue. How does that make sense? Does the Minister of State think a smuggler cares how many times we send people back to the detention centre? I am sure they are rubbing their hands at the prospect of another trip to be paid for....

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not agreed

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses. It is very hard not to get caught up in concepts. There are these constant dilemmas and contradictions and all these things to try to work out, which shows how complex some of these conversations are. I am getting stuck a little on capacity and consent. The same understanding of it does not seem to apply when we move into different scenarios. Do consent and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have two questions. Much of the debate on capacity has mostly considered mental capacity and how that can change. However, there is also physical capacity in terms of something progressing that affects someone's physical capacity to be able to see through their decision, say, a person who regularly insisted on assisted dying having the lack of physical capacity to see through the decision...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. I will hone in a little, because we will probably have a second round, for the first round on the age-disputed minors and the idea of the benefit-of-doubt principle. I have some idea of the direction in which it goes. The International Protection Office, IPO, holds up the determination that it is disputed whether somebody is a child. As far as I...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is involved? I am wondering what the assessment team makes of it.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am struggling a little with regard to a social history. First, culturally, people's social histories can be so complex and traumatic that they appear as adults well before their time with regard to the things they have endured and experienced. From where has the mechanism that determines this is the best way to do it come? I had a child at 15. What if I fled to a country and said I had...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will return to our earlier conversation, for my own clarity. When we sit down to make recommendations I want to be sure that what I am thinking of is relevant in terms of the report that will be written. I will ask some clarifying questions. This question was potentially asked at a different committee, but I cannot remember the answer. If a potentially disputed unaccompanied minor,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: They need to have spent 12 months in the care of the State. Let us look at a scenario where an disputed unaccompanied minor, a girl for example, has spent ten months and time is ticking down where she is not in the care of the State. It is then recognised that she is a minor.