Results 121-140 of 587 for does speaker:Lynn Ruane

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... There could be, not an exact, word-for-word PIAB model, but something resembling that in some sense so that it acts almost as a triage in terms of what complexity of case goes forward and what does not, and what can be dealt with on a lower level assessment basis. If people have time to come in on that, that is fine. The second issue we sometimes talk relates to oligarchs, the elite...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...rescued by the Irish Naval Service fell from 8,592 in 2015 to 1,888 in 2018 after the change in policy regarding search and rescue; - Operation Sophia completely ceased search and rescue operations in 2019; - Operation Irini, which replaced Operation Sophia, does not have a search and rescue mandate; - across Europe, civil society organisations and activists who are engaging in...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...is clear. By 2018, the number of people the Naval Service rescued fell to 1,888 and in 2019 Operation Sophia stopped search and rescue completely. Operation Irini, the successor to Operation Sophia, does not have a search and rescue mandate at all. Instead, we see the Libyan coastguard being notified when a ship is attempting to cross. If they make it to the ship, those people will be...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...about the value of life, the value of migrants, how they should be treated, the value of their work and contributions when they get here and then, on the other hand stand with a European Union that does use EU money, through the trust fund for Africa, to intercept boats at sea. We can make the stretch and say that it is not our money that is paying for detention centres.We are talking...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...contributing to people dying at sea. If it happens far enough away, are we really responsible? We do mental acrobatics in our heads to try to tell ourselves we are not responsible for that. It does not matter whether we stand here and vote against motions, put in countermotions that destroy the principles of human rights and dignity or go into the fucking sea ourselves and push them...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It does not matter how far back in the system we go; we are responsible. Today we have a Government, which is not supporting a motion that calls for search and rescue. How does that make sense? Does the Minister of State think a smuggler cares how many times we send people back to the detention centre? I am sure they are rubbing their hands at the prospect of another trip to be paid for....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...contradictions and all these things to try to work out, which shows how complex some of these conversations are. I am getting stuck a little on capacity and consent. The same understanding of it does not seem to apply when we move into different scenarios. Do consent and capacity have a universal understanding or are they movable things that move when we consider different...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...not having access to what he or she needs. My first question is on how that assessment is determined. Is the move to the benefit-of-doubt principle something that is already happening? It does not seem like much needs to happen for it to happen, other than saying it is happening. If someone is saying that we are moving in this direction, what is stopping that form being today? Does...

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...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...and was longing to meet and connect with her birth mother. How can cruelty like this ever be understood or made up for? Wrongs like this can never be made right but the fact this redress scheme does not even mention the term "forced family separation", and the fact this term is not mentioned once in the Bill, is a staggering omission. It is a gross abuse of the trust of survivors and a...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...forced family separation because of these institutions. Under this scheme, such people will not be able to get payment. In recognising forced family separation, we recognise that the institution does not just mean the four walls. It is bigger than that. Political institutions are made up of several houses. With regard to co-location on sites, when we refer to mother and baby...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...the redress scheme. Most galling is that the Government has declined to give an answer to the survivors, who engaged in the process in good faith, as to why they will be excluded. The Government does not have the courage to admit the truth of this decision, which is that this is penny-pinching. It is a hard-hearted, cold, cost-saving exercise. It is cruelty heaped upon cruelty. The...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...is to create the time criteria and to create a non-adversarial position, but then the adversarial position is being created by saying that if a person was in a home for less than six months, he or she does not qualify for those additional benefits. Again, there seems to be a double use of particular things that are used differently in different sections of the Bill. No matter how long...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...some other comorbidities due to ageing or whatever it may be. Say then, in that healthcare directive, he quite clearly stated he wants to die by assisted dying at whatever stage of that disease. Does something happen then when his cognitive functions are reduced so much that his memory has lapsed? In other words, he does not have any memory of making the healthcare directive. From a...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...are. I am glad there is such a unanimous declaration of why, and for what reasons, we should hold onto juries in the courts. I was interested to hear Deputy Daly speak about how Sinn Féin does not support juryless courts, and how Sinn Féin recently mooted the idea of changing its position with regard to the Special Criminal Court. Perhaps it will ensure that we abolish the...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...on that a bit more as to what we need to look at there. In a sense Twitter and social media are not emerging technologies any more, but I do not believe there is any case law in Ireland. Where does defamation stand around the retweeting of information? I believe there was a case in the UK with a politician. What if somebody retweets or shares something that may be defamatory, even if...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...where we called for the review to include analysis of who applied for the scheme and was deemed ineligible as a result of the 180-day and 90-day residency requirements. However, amendment No. 42 does not specifically reference this. It references those who are "entitled to or eligible for" in the new section that would be added on page 34. The amendment reads thus: "(b) in relation to...

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

Lynn Ruane: ..., surely it is better not to include them in the Bill. It is awful to think of survivors who may be wrongly excluded by a concluding year when we are receiving new information. This proposal does not feel solid or clear enough. I understand if some sort of distinction needs to be included in the Bill. The concluding year is too blunt. People will rule themselves out of applying....

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

Lynn Ruane: ...sites worked at the time in terms of the movement of women between the maternity-specific services and the county homes. Some probably never made it into the shelter in the county homes but it does not mean that was not the intention for them. They could have been sent there and there could have been a stillbirth. There could have been anything. There could have been a forced...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...maternity services other things may have happened like racial stuff, which is not recognised. We are separating them here but are putting them back together for the purposes of the waiver. This does not make sense to me and makes the legislation incoherent. It is unique because the others may be more specific when we are looking at covering circumstances by waivers because they are just...