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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I am substituting for Senator Higgins who cannot be here today, but we have spoken beforehand about the contribution. Going through the Minister's contribution relating to the Citizens' Assembly recommendations, there is reference to potentially meaning a referendum. There is a lack of clarity about the Taoiseach deciding whether there will be a referendum. I am following on from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for that clarity. He mentioned Article 41.2, which is something I care about. One third of families, families like mine, are not represented in the Constitution. That is something we have been waiting a long time for. The Minister mentioned in the briefing from his Department previous interdepartmental consideration in 2014. He also mentioned the Attorney General's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister referred to care. It is important to put on the record that the Citizens' Assembly also chose to make sure that we refer to care, not carers. That should not get lost in the discussions as well. With regard to the potential wording, the Minister will probably say that he will wait for the committee. The Citizens' Assembly made recommendations relating to Article 41.2 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I had some other questions to ask but having listened to the contributions that have been made, I am going to stick to the issue of problem gambling. I have worked in addiction for 20 years. To be honest, gambling is the hardest thing with which we in the addiction sector have ever worked. When I hear about interventions, wage slips and someone being told they are a problem gambler over a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Who funds the addiction treatment? If there is an intervention and a conversation is had with someone, it would be kind of fruitless if there are no options for that person. There is somewhere between €6 billion and €8 billion in gambling revenue in Ireland. What role should the industry play in funding residential treatment intervention for people who have got to that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Does the algorithm pick up the demographics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Are they part of the conversation that is had with individuals? Who is in the room having a conversation with an individual when the accounts have been frozen? What specialists are in that room?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: They are not in the room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (8 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Before getting to Mr. Le Jeune I have another quick question. There are data indicating people on lower incomes tend to play more and spend more than richer counterparts. I read that either in a submission or in the lead-up to today. When problem gambling is measured, is consideration given to the income of an individual? That is instead of setting a threshold at a particular amount for...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move: That Seanad Éireann: notes with concern that: - the cost of renting in the State has approximately doubled in the last decade; - the cost of rent and mortgage repayments are having a significant impact on people’s financial security, with approximately 20% of the population being at risk of poverty when rent and mortgage payments are deducted from disposable income,...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State. What strikes me is that we all have a common goal but what frightens me is how long we attach ourselves to how we do that. We talk about working together and then we listen to Senator Higgins talking about those tension points and how things work when so many people have different ideas. Up until this point, we have not got it right. When do we admit that we...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome our MEPs to the Chamber. I was following the debate from my office and I picked up on one or two points in Senator Higgins's contribution, which, owing to time constraints, were not addressed in the responses. I will reiterate some of those points. On the proposed EU legislation on business and human rights, which includes due diligence on supply chains, I ask that the MEPs speak...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister of State for being here this afternoon. I am finding it very difficult to contribute on this issue lately - more and more so trying to hold my emotion together and trying to hold the reality of lives together. I just need a minute.

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Just in case I cannot keep myself together later, I support the two amendments in the first instance. This Chamber has proven more harmful to my mental health than my drug use ever did. I apologise for finding this very hard. There are many policies we can all speak about. The likes of the drugs policy has many threads. Decriminalisation is one of them. Blood-borne viruses, family...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In paragraph (2), to delete “a Citizens’ Assembly, to be known as the Dublin Citizens’ Assembly, with a total of 80 members, including an independent Chairperson, 67 randomly-selected members of the public living in Dublin City and County, and 12 Councillors selected from across the four local authorities, to consider the type of directly elected...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: (a) In the lead-in to the motion, to delete “the calling of two Citizens’ Assemblies” and substitute “the calling of three Citizens’ Assemblies”. (b) To insert a new paragraph after paragraph (2): “(3) a Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs, with a total of 100 members, including an independent Chairperson and 99...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I thank our guests for their contributions. I am struck by the words we use when we talk about antisocial behaviour and its presentation within some communities. Everywhere experiences some levels or variations of antisocial behaviour but it is highly concentrated in some communities. Our guests have drawn a direct correlation to poverty, family and safety, but when I think of community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Mr. McCarthy can say whatever he thinks appropriate. I trust him.