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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.

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

Lynn Ruane: It will be backdated.

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

Lynn Ruane: These are the little things I need to make sure of. What else is backdated? Let us look at access to education, and at the ability of somebody who should have been in fourth year, fifth year or sixth year. Time is ticking on for him or her. In reality he or she is going back to school as an adult. If he or she cannot go to school as a 16-year-old or 17-year-old and then turns 18, we are...

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

Lynn Ruane: In that scenario we are saying that adult age is appropriate in a school setting.

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

Lynn Ruane: That is just a discrepancy, as I am pointing out. I want to go back to the medical assessment. The medical assessment margin of error is only two years. It is very small. If we are saying that a 17-year-old could potentially be a 19-year-old according to the medical assessment, we are already allowing 19-year-olds in youth settings, even in youth work. The youth work provisions also go...

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

Lynn Ruane: In reality, that margin of error is quite small, unless you are in a shared room and you might need some safeguards in place. Where the margin of error does not matter is in the cases that have been put forward of the 15-year-old or 16-year-old. The margin of error is two years, so he or she is still under age. It only really comes into play as a questionable metric if we are looking at...

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

Lynn Ruane: Should we have medicals for those cases? Regardless of whether she is 17, she is still a minor.

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

Lynn Ruane: The two years of error would differentiate that. They are either 23 or 27.