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Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. Budget 2023 comes at a time of great anxiety for many people across the country. The cost-of-living crisis has been extensively discussed already but I wish to give the context that, for many people, there has been a cost-of-living crisis for years, if not forever. During recessions and after recessions, during booms and after booms, before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the delegation and welcome Ms Daly back to the House. I believe that, previously, she was a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality. I have lots of questions but I will try to hone them into one or two because I know we do not have much time. I seek clarification from Ms Sippel on her reference to an independent investigation. Does she mean improving the DPC's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Sippel for providing that clarification. Ms Daly said that Spain's legislative framework allows its data protection authority to make decisions but that it probably has less to consider. Would the introduction of two more commissioners in the DPC support the move to defining in the legislation that decisions have to be made because there would be three DPC commissioners working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I know this is not the time but I do not think we will have another opportunity to state whether we agree in respect of the meeting next Wednesday. I know it is not ideal but can we clarify what the session on Wednesday will be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I am completely opposed to that session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: It is too reactive to and stigmatising of the recent events in Cherry Orchard and it is too shortsighted, given we are not discussing poverty, combat poverty agencies or a task force. In addition, there could be reference to legal cases in the context of Cherry Orchard. I am completely opposed to that session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Was the session suggested in reaction to the events in Cherry Orchard? I think we are reacting to the wrong thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: That is disgraceful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Then it should not be dealt with next week. There should be enough distance between what has been on social media and the proposed session. The proposed session was not in the timetable that was given to us at the start of the year, so it is a new session and thus a reaction. We should not have the session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: We should vote on whether that session is taken.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the comments of Senators Flynn and Ardagh. I am always apprehensive about speaking on these issues because some people would like to think that we are condoning behaviour when we are not. People can call out behaviour as wrong. What happened in Cherry Orchard is wrong. How we challenge that is a whole different story. How we speak about and understand it is much more nuanced...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I rise today in support of the motion which will see the establishment of the office of authorised intervention that will oversee the excavation, recovery, analysis, identification where possible, and appropriate reinterment of the infant remains located at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. This is a development...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: We have tabled a couple of amendments to this section. I will make a few comments specifically on amendment No. 94, which seeks to amend section 66(1) by proposing that the chief executive officer would impose on a designated institution of higher education a requirement to take a remedial or other measure or measures in accordance with this section, if he or she makes a determination that...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for his engagement on this. Some of my fears have been put to rest by the fact that we can potentially look at the appeals mechanism and the powers within that to ensure that there will be an impact assessment on how a financial decision will be made against a college and on whom it will or will not impact. I ask the Minister if, during the ongoing work, we can continue...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 100: In page 66, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Local authorities and higher education land use 73.For the avoidance of doubt and to protect the role of local authorities, nothing in this Act shall be construed as granting the Minister or An tÚdarás the power to compel designated higher education institutions to dispose of land or...