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

Lynn Ruane: It is okay if people do not get to come back in. Sometimes I only say things that are referenced in my reports in order to get them on the record. There were some matters in regard to PIAB. I understand that a jury would not be involved there, but it may be important to tease out a mandatory-type model and a voluntary-type model and outline how a person could indicate whether he or she...

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

Lynn Ruane: Mr. Foley is smiling at the politicians. I would like to tune into that smile and see why.

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

Lynn Ruane: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: recognises that: - seeking asylum is a fundamental right under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; - every person’s right to seek asylum in a safe country is enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; notes with concern that: - an estimated 27,000...

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

Lynn Ruane: I am sharing time with Senator Black. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, to the House. The Civil Engagement Group has tabled this motion because for a long time we have been deeply concerned about the way in which Europe has hardened its borders over the past decade, in our capacity as both European citizens and European parliamentarians. As Europeans, this hardening of borders...

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

Lynn Ruane: I also note that many European politicians decried the role of traffickers in the shipwreck that occurred near Greece this month. Let us be very clear; the best way to combat trafficking is to ensure safe routes so that people can have their asylum claims heard in Europe.If safe routes were provided, traffickers would have no business model and so it is the duty of Europe to provide those...

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

Lynn Ruane: I find it absolutely infuriating to listen to people in the one breath talk 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...

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

Lynn Ruane: .... We do not want to recognise their vulnerability in the sea. We do not want to recognise their vulnerability in the detention centres we are forcing them to stay in when we intercept their boats and push them back. EU money supports that, and Government MEPs have voted for it. It is no good sitting at home telling ourselves we are all great people, we are not very racist, we all care...

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: .... It is very hard not to get caught up in concepts. There are these constant dilemmas and 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...

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

Lynn Ruane: I am struggling a little with regard to a social history. First, culturally, people's social histories can be so complex and traumatic that they appear as adults well before their time with regard to the things they have endured and experienced. From where has the mechanism that determines this is the best way to do it come? I had a child at 15. What if I fled to a country and said I had...

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

Lynn Ruane: I will return to our earlier conversation, for my own clarity. When we sit down to make recommendations I want to be sure that what I am thinking of is relevant in terms of the report that will be written. I will ask some clarifying questions. This question was potentially asked at a different committee, but I cannot remember the answer. If a potentially disputed unaccompanied minor,...

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

Lynn Ruane: They need to have spent 12 months in the care of the State. Let us look at a scenario where an disputed unaccompanied minor, a girl for example, has spent ten months and time is ticking down where she is not in the care of the State. It is then recognised that she is a minor.

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

Lynn Ruane: These are the little things I need to make sure of. What else is backdated? Let us look at access to education, and at the ability of somebody who should have been in fourth year, fifth year or sixth year. Time is ticking on for him or her. In reality he or she is going back to school as an adult. If he or she cannot go to school as a 16-year-old or 17-year-old and then turns 18, we are...

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: Amendment No. 14 calls for a report after 12 months on the potential for additional payments to be made available under the scheme for those who experienced forced family separation. We had to resubmit this Committee Stage amendment with a new timeframe of 12 months. Senator Higgins argued at length on the issue of forced family separation on Committee Stage but it is important that I make...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...of the 180-day residency requirement. It is to be hoped this second part has been addressed by Government amendments Nos. 42 and 43, and we received assurances around this in last week's debate. I will reiterate the points that were made on Committee Stage, because this is another core injustice and omission in the redress scheme. Until this exclusion is removed, it is impossible to...

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

Lynn Ruane: With regard to evidence, for many of us, it is not about evidence and creating some sort of really difficult system for people, it is also about recognition of their testimony. It goes without saying that there will be people when they apply, no matter what the application processes look like, who will want to continue to tell what happened to them. Sometimes, that alone is evidence enough...

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

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations. Most of my contribution will probably be to Dr. Mulligan. Even though we are here in respect of those constitutional questions, she has experience in the medical law side of things. I wish to utilise her time here rather than being repetitive on some of the stuff we have already established. I am beginning to think about the more nitty-gritty...

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

Lynn Ruane: I have one or two follow-up questions for a additional information. In relation to mental illness and mental pain and suffering, am I right in saying that, from a medical law perspective, suffering is not just physical pain? Are they seen as equal or is there still some sort of disparity, whether it be written within law or a cultural position, that somehow one is more legitimate than the...

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

Lynn Ruane: As an aside to that, I wonder also about the bodies corporate and the public authorities piece. In reading Ireland's anti-SLAPP network submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, in head 4 under serious harm in relation to bodies corporate and then again in head 5 in relation to public authorities, they recommend that public authorities should be prevented from bringing...