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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I said it more for the transcribers.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Gallagher for the contribution. I think of the six areas of concern highlighted by the UN committee and how so many of those, when we think of the earlier conversation regarding children in care, are about how we place them within families that are vulnerable and then place those families within communities that are struggling. We must look at the systemic failure relating to...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I begin by commending Senator Black for consistently shining a light on what is happening in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. I extend thanks on her behalf to Senator Chambers for scheduling the debate prior to the summer recess. The recent invasion of Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli military represents a significant, but...

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

Lynn Ruane: I will not use all my time because I am not going to repeat points. Everything that has been said about why the Bill is necessary has already been said. I am interested in getting the Minister of State's response to some aspects of this. I am a bit confused about the logistics. We have a Minister who is not in the room, who we have just been told wants a delay of 12 months and needs time....

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.