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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have one or two follow-up questions for a additional information. In relation to mental illness and mental pain and suffering, am I right in saying that, from a medical law perspective, suffering is not just physical pain? Are they seen as equal or is there still some sort of disparity, whether it be written within law or a cultural position, that somehow one is more legitimate than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: On people leaving the country, why would the Garda intercept in some cases and not others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If I may add to that, is there a difference between someone being told they are a burden and not wanting to live as a burden? It could be someone positively affirming they do not want to be a burden regardless of whether people in their lives perceive them as such. They two very different things. One is where someone is making a decision on the basis of something being a threat to their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Department of Justice (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am the first non-legal person, or person who has not studied law, to speak. I feel as though I have just walked into the wrong classroom or something. I am trying to grasp the language and how we are speaking about the subject. I have a few questions and perhaps some of them may seem a bit basic given where the conversation has been, but it is just so I can fully understand. As I see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Department of Justice (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As an aside to that, I wonder also about the bodies corporate and the public authorities piece. In reading Ireland's anti-SLAPP network submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, in head 4 under serious harm in relation to bodies corporate and then again in head 5 in relation to public authorities, they recommend that public authorities should be prevented from bringing...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I join others in expressing my support for amendment No. 1. There is not a huge amount that I can add to what has been said regarding its impact and necessity. The Civil Engagement Group has co-signed that amendment. I wish to speak on Government amendments Nos. 42 and 43, which are in this grouping, tease them out and get some clarification on them. Those two amendments are a partial...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I hear what the Minister is saying, namely that the intention is not to reduce or restrict eligibility in any way shape or form but instead clarify it. However, when I read the Bill I see it differently and have some concerns that it is the opposite. Perhaps that is something we can work out in our conversation. On the addition of the concluding years, I read the briefing document provided...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The thing is that some people who experienced trauma, abuses or forced separation may be officially down in the records as only being there to receive maternity services. There is also how these things are recorded within institutions. They may have been sent to those maternity services against their will at the wish of their family. They may have been forced from their children in the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In relation to the co-location issue, what I am struggling with is the fact that we are talking about hospitals and county homes but they were operating under the same management. Did they not have the same structures and umbrella? Mother and baby homes were stand-alone institutions but what were the structures in county homes? There were two separate institutions operating within the one...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am not sure it has because scenarios keep arising in my mind. We are recognising that the hospital or the maternity wing within the hospital and the county home were one and the same thing in a sense and that they cannot be separated. If someone's time in the maternity services is an extension of her time in the county home, it must be recognised in the other direction as well where...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In teasing out the affidavit piece, later on we will get to how long it takes for the system to respond to applications so we add in another layer. No real timeframe went into the legislation in terms of when people can expect to hear back. Then we add in another step that requires an affidavit. Someone applies, they say that they are registered with maternity services and not with the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In that case I will come back to the co-located sites. We have the mother and baby home aspect. We are saying that the legislation only recognises the mother and baby home aspect. It is based on a person's residency records and not in relation to the hospital that is on that site. Again I go back to the fact that what a person experienced on the hospital site does not have anything to do...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Then we are legislating for experience and we are making them relational. We have situations and then we have circumstances. Circumstances are many within the whole of a situation. What we are then saying is that this legislation is not about mother and baby homes or county homes but rather about situations. That situation is as long as a piece of string. In one sense, we are trying to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: You cannot take a case.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What has been captured concisely by the Senator is exactly how I am struggling to separate the county home from the maternity services. Even though other people may have received adequate care, I do not think they can be separated. If a certain administration or facility has agreed to allow a county home within its site, well then it is the county home. You may have been on a ward, and...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will finish on this.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I hear the Minister saying that the mere fact of being in the maternity services - I am paraphrasing so correct me if needs be - is not recognition that a woman was in the county home, unless she was in the county home. I am saying the recognition happens later on. Later on, we are saying that the circumstance of being in the county home, and a woman may have happened to be transferred...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, exactly.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Did you ever hear the question, "What is a university?". You then point at the university and ask whether it is the university. There are different schools within it, and different this and that. It feels like that in respect of this matter. What is the mother and baby home? What is the county home? I am struggling with the fact there will be women who may not have slept in a county...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I want to extend my condolences to the Coghlan family. I was very saddened to hear of Paul's death. We were very different politically, but when I first met Paul, I think I was trying to break the ice and I went to fist pump him instead of shaking his hand. He kind of ducked for a minute and I had to explain that I was just saying hello. From then on, that was how we greeted each other,...