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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.

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

Lynn Ruane: The legislative provision that is required-----

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

Lynn Ruane: I understand why the witnesses say they are not doing it, but I am trying to get to the crux of the cases and to determine where we probably should be using them. Reference has been made to the backdated piece. The backdating of care has been discussed, but other services that may have gone awry during that time include education, the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS,...

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

Lynn Ruane: In the interim, while the services are trying to figure out all the stuff around the age assessment, is Safetynet suggesting that there be a third option for those whose age is disputed? Obviously it is not adult accommodation and it is not accommodation with relatively young minors, but some sort of in-between process where they are still treated as minors but with a question mark. They...

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

Lynn Ruane: Entitled to aftercare.

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

Lynn Ruane: Could that come with an amnesty? I am aware that people may be frightened of being followed around the country, in the sense of there being a fear of being sent back. Perhaps they are waiting on an appeal; there could be a lot of fear around that. Something like that would require an amnesty of some sort so that it is only the healthcare professionals who would have access to that...

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

Lynn Ruane: Could the caregiver say, "No, do not contact IPAS."

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

Lynn Ruane: And with relevant information.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on provision of additional payments to those who experienced forced family separation 19. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to make provision for supplementary payments, in addition to any...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 14 calls for a report after 12 months on the potential for additional payments to be made available under the scheme for those who experienced forced family separation. We had to resubmit this Committee Stage amendment with a new timeframe of 12 months. Senator Higgins argued at length on the issue of forced family separation on Committee Stage but it is important that I make...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will make a few brief points. Nearly all that can be said on the issue has been said, but I will pick up on a few small points. The forced family separation piece is not only about people giving evidence to get additional payments. Some people, despite not being registered as having been in the county home for one night, still experienced forced family separation because of these...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Report on extension of eligibility for general payment under Scheme 19.(1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend eligibility under section 18(1)for a general payment to all relevant persons who were...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As the Minister knows, we are not allowed to amend the Bill to directly delete the minimum 180-day residency requirement for survivors to qualify for general payment under the scheme. As a compromise, this amendment No. 15 once again calls for a report on the potential to remove the 180-day residency requirement. It also calls for the Minister to examine how many applied to the scheme...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: With regard to evidence, for many of us, it is not about evidence and creating some sort of really difficult system for people, it is also about recognition of their testimony. It goes without saying that there will be people when they apply, no matter what the application processes look like, who will want to continue to tell what happened to them. Sometimes, that alone is evidence enough...