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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,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, I have too much to say.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I would rather not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. People talk about how long it has taken to deal with this matter but I believe people have been grappling with it since the beginning of time. It is just a case of what happens when you try to legislate for it. It is a matter of life and death and people's decisions. It is quite existential in and of itself. Many of my...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Women Accessing Education, Leadership and Political Roles: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. A few questions came to mind when I was listening to them. What I would love to tease out more, homing in on WCI, is the point about "ensuring political parties run women candidates in a meaningful, serious and supportive way". This is the biggest bugbear of mine. Women are the additional candidate and never the main candidate in many...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Women Accessing Education, Leadership and Political Roles: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Glanville.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Many of the questions that were asked relate to AI and how decisions are made. I am glad it is still human to human and am hopeful that we never venture into using any sort of algorithms to speed up the asylum process. The information may already be out there and I just have not delved into it enough, but what I am interested in is the idea of safety and safe countries. Ireland deems...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: My office has had some interaction with people from the LGBTQ+ community who went through international protection interviews and have expressed a concern or fear about being able to prove persecution on that ground. In the case of gay men, say, they may be asked questions about whether they have had a gay relationship or whether they have visited or frequented any gay establishments in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Are other factors taken into account? I am not sure whether different factors are weighted or how that might be done. For example, what weight is given to the fact that somebody has not had a partner of the same sex as against the other information they provide? How are those more personal questions weighted against everything else the applicant may be providing to the interviewer?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for joining us in the Chamber. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important omnibus Bill. I begin by commending the Ministers, Deputy Harris and Deputy McEntee, on the hard work they have undertaken on addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland, elements of which are tackled within certain sections of this Bill. While I welcome many of the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is for adult prisons.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Deputy Creed has just lost her the job.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Because there is no one else here, is it okay if I tic-tac back and forth a little bit? I know we put five minutes on the clock, but we probably should have extended the clock given how few of us are here. I am retrospectively-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Ms Yiasouma is very welcome. I am definitely responsive to the type of language she is using and how she is speaking. It makes me excited to see what she does in the role. Subjects like this are always close to my heart. At one stage, it looked inevitable that I was on my way to Oberstown, only for probation intervened at the time. It was nearly part of my life but it was very much...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Ms Yiasouma referenced the culpability at 12 piece. I would love her general thoughts on that. When you come from a community that has been heavily ostracised or marginalised, you even mature at different rates. Risk is situational; it is context dependent. The way we respond and take risk in some communities may not be understood by communities that have a different safety net or setting...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is a reason for us to fix it on the other end.