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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No, those are the most important areas. They are the issues I should loop back to. Hopefully, I will be back in time. The more important thing is that they will be on the transcript.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am asking about the position if a person is not registered to access some of the State supports. I have done a lot of work on spent convictions and it always creeps into my head when I think of some who may fear registering because of a past conviction, especially in working-class communities that have been over-policed to a high degree. The conviction may be minor and would not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do. We will probably discuss some of the areas I wish to touch on, which include the in camerarule - that has been addressed - the interpretation of in loco parentis, and the joint protocol and its potential relationship to the duty to co-operate. If I am not here for that discussion, I apologise.

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State. I second the Bill. I thank Senator Higgins and our colleagues in the Civil Engagement Group and also the staff in our office for their work in developing this legislation. The Bill interestingly captures much of the work the Civil Engagement Group has strived to undertake on electoral reform since the group's inception. Much of the debate today will be...

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have a good many questions so I hope we will have a second round. I had questions prepared but then created a whole new document as the debate proceeded. I need to get something off my chest as I will not be able to speak for the rest of the time if I do not. I believe criminality and grooming were mentioned. This makes me uncomfortable because it places the idea that there is some sort...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I was speaking about grooming for criminality rather than sexual exploitation. I would like to separate the two.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will bring in an example that happened in my personal network this week. It relates to a mother who has a child and already cares for her grandchildren. They have a wide extended family. A new baby was born to the parents who have had the rest of their children taken into care. Tusla intervened and took the child without communicating with the grandmother who has the children. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: A cap rather than an extension that allows you to apply again and again after 12 months.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: There were a few more questions but a more important point is the move from five to three years in terms of enhanced rights of foster parents.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If Ms Hynes continues her answer it will be on the recording.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is a meeting of the select committee.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do but, looking at them, I think there are some I can explore in the following week. I would like just to go back for clarification on some of the other questions. That would probably be a better use of time in the context of the report and the recommendations. I am just processing the responses. Mr. Quinlan went a little into the case that would be made in respect of harm and so on,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not mandatory.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The court also cannot make recommendations on services, etc. I recall the statement earlier when we spoke about unaccompanied minors. We provide them and children in the State with the same care when they come into that, but we do not when it comes to the voluntary care system because certain things are not mandated in a certain direction around supports and services or advocacy or a social...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Is that still based on "is likely to be"?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If you take a child or make a court order or an application on behalf of a child under the provision of "is likely to be"-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: They are to be protected in this imaginary situation.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is also about neglect. If one were to say, "is likely to be neglected"-----