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Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Senator Ward and the Minister. They have made a valid point on how to define the online space. This is where it stings us as Opposition Senators that we are doing all Stages together. We recognise there is an issue and if there was time in between the Stages we would have been able to work together to ensure that perhaps we could look at and sensitively handle what the definition...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 13, to delete lines 33 and 34 and substitute the following: “ “student union” means an independent and self-governing body, elected by students in a higher education institution, that is established for the purpose of promoting the general interests of students of a designated higher education institution, and of representing students,...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 1 specifically defines a student union as an independent body elected by students. The electoral mandate is the key element here, not the recognition of a particular Minister or a governing authority. We spoke about this in detail last week but it remains an unanswered and fundamental point. If we say external recognition of a students' union has more weight legally, rather...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister and his office for their engagement and for the detailed email response to many of the amendments, which has been helpful. When he indicated the definition would be detrimental, is that purely because it would be out of line with that in the sectoral legislation? In the context of what is the best possible definition of a student union, if making it out of line with...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “ “United Nations Sustainable Development Goals” means the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1 to 17 set out in the document entitled “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The amendment proposes to insert a definition of the UN sustainable development goals into the Bill.I propose this amendment because in subsequent amendments Senator Higgins references the SDGs and, given Ireland has signed up to these, it is important that we reflect our international obligations in how the higher education sector functions into the future. I urge the Minister to accept...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for his response. It is not to say the Bill has not been made better on previous Stages but it possibly has not been made its best. The Seanad is trying to bring it to that next level of better. We are hugely concerned by the outdated definition in the Bill. I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, to delete lines 39 and 40, and in page 14, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(3) In this Act, references to environmental development and sustainability shall be construed as references to development and actions that meet the needs of the present and which contribute to climate action without accelerating or worsening the...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 4: In page 13, to delete lines 39 and 40, and in page 14, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(3) In this Act, references to environmental development and sustainability shall be construed as references to development and actions that meet the needs of the present and which contribute to climate action, in line with the United Nations...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5: In page 13, to delete lines 39 and 40, and in page 14, to delete lines 1 to 3.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 6: In page 14, line 1, after “needs” to insert the following: “, while recognising historic responsibility for climate change and its effects on current populations,”.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 14, line 3, after “development,” to insert “climate justice,”.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 14, after line 39, to insert the following: “Report following Citizen’s Assembly on Education. The Minister shall, following the conclusion of the Citizen’s Assembly on Education, prepare and a lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining how they plan to implement or reflect the recommendations of the Citizen’s...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Is your chicken going cold-----

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The word "chicken"?

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Do not police my language. Maybe you might want to stand up to the man who is shouting on the other side of the room for women doing their jobs.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Hang on a minute. That is a word. I said a word but he just screamed and shouted across the Chamber because we were doing our job.