Results 161-180 of 587 for does speaker:Lynn Ruane

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work and Integrated Care and Education: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...everybody got their centre or space, and that idea of working with people in their own communities, whether that is hanging around the Centra while they are wrecking everybody else's head - that does not matter - or at a bonfire or at whatever corner while people are smoking weed and selling drugs. They are where we need to be but I feel it is not happening enough anymore. Will Mr. Perth...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work and Integrated Care and Education: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...not only to investment but also to focused conversation in the context of understanding what youth work is and what the future of youth work looks like. From the perspective of a youth worker, does it feel like there is a disconnect or a lack of understanding regarding the importance of youth work? How can a State or the Government of the day come around to accepting the importance of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work and Integrated Care and Education: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... That is very scary. If someone is getting two or three interventions, it is obviously about a need for collaboration more than warning people away from working with particular groups. It just does not make sense to me. There is then the conversation around how to know whether something is a vocation for people versus a profession. Although I completely agree regarding parity of pay,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...like to hear if they do. I am thinking of the likes of the Dídean model. I do not know if they know it. In communicating with that organisation and looking at the kind of work it is doing, it does not feel like it is private and it does not feel like it is fully public. There is some sort of a social enterprise model there that has potential to provide own-door accommodation but...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...cameras be processed later using FRT, either by the road authority or a third party. I am aware that the Minister has amendments coming up in the next section which explicitly says that they are removed, but as it does refer to any other data-gathering devices, I will come to those again in the next section. Interestingly, when drafting this Bill, the Minister made a point of specifying...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...Will the Minister clarify why this provision is necessary? Will he clarify why this provision is any better than a more specific provision which would name and define specific technologies to be used? Why does this provision need to be so broad?

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...Dublin. Amendment No. 63 seeks to protect the public realm when it is affected by the impact of the development of public transport infrastructure under the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008. The section currently does not make any specific reference to the public realm despite the fact that large scale public transport infrastructure development regularly impacts on the availability,...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...substitute "necessary". As it currently reads, the Bill states: "The National Roads Authority may provide in respect of national managed roads such information signs and warning signs as it considers desirable." It does not seem to be the most appropriate language to use. Really it should read "information signs and warning signs as it considers necessary". Again, the word "desirable"...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Sometimes University College Dublin does veterinary and Trinity does dentistry. I wonder if there is a reason some of the other universities have not got them. Sometimes there are internal agreements, which might be something to look at in terms of opening up spaces in other universities.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the pub on the weekend watching football and engaging in their communities. It is positive when people are engaged in education in their community. On a social, psychological and emotional level, how does the lack of intervention and services impact on people's ability to live a fuller life in adulthood and want to engage in their communities? Does it cause isolation among people who do...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Lynn Ruane: They are two fine candidates. Private life does matter because without our private lives, we would not have the principles, convictions and visions we have. Many of our personal lives, the lives we have lived, the people we have loved and the people we share a life with are what drive us forward in this House and help us be good legislators. Therefore, to congratulate somebody and their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...person who speaks. I thank the Cathaoirleach for setting the standard on how to be fully active in a role and not just to sit back and say that the job description is that he sits in the chair, does Commencement matters and is here for votes. It can be so much more than that. It can be such a big role and can be what we make it. I acknowledge that. This Thursday, many of us will go...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Supports for Parents of Children in Foster Care: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...be. I wish to raise a number of issues, the first of which is the importance of the relationship between foster parents and birth parents. While my observations are limited in a sense, there does not seem to be a huge amount of work or effort done in this area. Sometimes I find that, although well-meaning, some social workers are not strong enough in the work they do to navigate those...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: .... We should not look to the mood of the electorate or whether the mob will vote for us to decide what we should or should not say. We must be strong and make sure the humanitarian response does not end by just letting people into the country.

Seanad: Review of Allegations of Sexual Abuse at St. John Ambulance: Motion (17 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...have had to endure. That can never be airbrushed away. As we have seen, some people within the power structures of organisations think that by removing the problem and pretending an individual does not exist any more, things are somehow sorted. Wen I spoke out on behalf of people who were victims of abuse in St. John Ambulance, I did not anticipate being contacted by many others. At...

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This is a disproportionate amount considering damaged peatlands cover just 0.3% of land-mass. I will ask a series of questions at this point. How does the Government plan to reverse the trend by which Ireland is becoming a net emitter on forestry? On accounting, will the Minister of State commit to no forward- or double-counting and a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna (Atógáil) - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Departmental Reviews (26 Oct 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...respect for the function of this House that is Commencement matters, which is why I do not table Commencement matters every week asking Ministers to come before the House. This Commencement matter does not, with all due respect, fall under the brief of the Minister of State, Deputy Browne. To have a Minister respond on behalf of another, to me, makes the engagement extremely dishonest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...deduct. We have also looked at elements of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, model. The bits we are finishing now relate to GDPR and using people's data if they refuse to engage. How does it stand with GDPR in terms of default assessments and using someone's data? Obviously, Revenue has all the information we need from PPS numbers to income. We have looked at people's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...of young families where the parents have died but were not married. I have friends whose fathers have taken their own lives but they were not married and so the widow's pension cannot be accessed. Does anybody have any solutions for these two extremely vulnerable groups, which include children, in terms of access to adequate care that will have to be driven by the State, not the other parent?