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Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Picking up on other Senators’ comments throughout the day, it is important to say there is stuff that does not make sense to me. Senator McGahon talked about pushing people into the black market of gambling. I would like to know what that black market is, how big it is and what it is because I am telling him now that I am surrounded by gamblers, by people who gamble in a healthy way...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Section 57 sets out the eligibility criteria for an individual to become a member of a relevant office or an adjudication officer. Our amendment No. 105 seeks to expand on the provision that states that an individual who enters employment with a licensee or an organisation that represents a licensee is ineligible for appointment. The amendment would make explicit that an individual who...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will not move it.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I like to listen to the room before I contribute. I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I think most people are on the same page when it comes to where we want things to go or where we think things should be. Logistically, realising that is a bit more difficult. Ms Collins mentioned intimidation and the need for us to have an honest conversation about that or about drug-related...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: To go back to the idea of understanding the why, when we say we need to figure out how to restrict supply, societies have been trying to do that for a long time and it is the essence of the war on drugs, which we are trying to move away from. Obviously, within an institutional setting, I understand there is an extra layer whereby we cannot ignore contraband coming in, but if we are looking...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Would Ms McCaffrey foresee entire wings, in all prisons, where everybody is in that recovery model?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Was it lost or taken away?

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Amendments Nos. 127 and 338 are related so I will discuss them together. Amendment No. 338 changes Schedule 2, which relates to maximum relevant payments and winnings for games and lotteries. The Bill contains boring proposals setting the maximum relevant payment for a relevant game at €10. Slot machines and other types of high-speed electronic gaming machines are proven to be by...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am right in saying amendment No. 31 is in this group, yes?

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 31 seeks to insert a reference to personal gaming devices in the list of what constitutes remote means. In the previous section of the debate, we discussed physical spaces, yet when we look at the online space, we are not fully doing what we need to do in that space either. For the purposes of this Bill as drafted, the Bill specifies that gambling by remote means can include...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I raise the point of gaming and in-app purchases. Obviously, I am speaking from a place of not fully understanding where app development can go but surely the Internet can be used to download a particular app, after which the app is on a person's phone or PlayStation. Sometimes apps can be potentially accessed, and that is a secondary point as some apps can be accessed without any Internet....

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 31: In page 21, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(b) a personal gaming device or console,”.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. It has been very helpful to sit back and listen to the previous engagements. I acknowledge the work of the Minister and the officials in the Department over recent years in working with me as the Bill went through the Seanad. We also allowed each other space to have these discussions. To put it on the record, what I am hearing is that it is the drafting that it is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is about the timeframe. Is the Minister saying that there is no doubt in his mind that the timeframe will not shift and that I will not be told in a week's time or two weeks' time that there still was not enough time? I know it is his intention to see this brought forward as an amendment on Committee Stage but it was also his intention that it would be part of the general scheme. My...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If an election happens first, everything falls.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I appreciate that. Why is this to be done on Dáil Committee Stage rather than on Committee Stage in the Seanad? As a Senator, it is extremely important to me and not only am I having a discussion about waiving pre-legislative scrutiny in the committee that I am on, but I am also having to hand over the other part of my legislative role, which is in the Seanad. The suggestion is that it...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Separate to the NDA aspect, the Seanad not being able to introduce amendments to that aspect of the Bill before it is debated on a Dáil Stage is a problem not just for me but for the procedures and processes that exist within the Houses to allow all Senators to do their jobs. It is an issue that goes beyond just me and could apply to issues other than just the NDA amendments. Even...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Regarding not having full control over the priority of the drafters, does the Minister have a schedule in place with the drafters where, for example, they update him on a weekly basis or every few days on where the drafting process is at? Will the Minister just wait until they produce something the week he expects it to be in the Dáil? Is a regular meeting being held?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: On an ongoing basis.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I have one more question, which is on the hugely important retrospective bit. It is not in the heads as we have seen them proposed. Some of the communication we received from the Minister or his Department over the past week or so was that a legal definition of a non-disclosure agreement is needed because there is no legal definition for it in any legislation. I find it interesting to say...