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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to speak about a number of different Palestinian groups. Some have been spoken about already. I am talking about the members of the Palestinian GAA team in relation to their trip to Ireland, but also in relation to the Lajee choir group. Currently, they have had to cancel their trip to Ireland, a trip they were very much looking forward to. The word from Tel Aviv is that what seems...

Seanad: Draft Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (16 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister and I broadly welcome the commission and the Minister’s statement. It feels as though we are having the same conversation over and over again, which is incredibly difficult because language, processes and talk and the way we have to then package it, for example, in a commission or the steps we need to take, never fully feel like they match the reality of the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Some of my amendments were ruled out of order, which I kind of expected, but this amendment is similar in nature to Sinn Féin's amendment, one that I will be supporting. It relates to a report on the provision of supports to bereaved children. For as long as I have been elected, and prior to that, I have spoken about how single parents are viewed in the country historically. We had a...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. It is also worth noting that in the next term, there will be a piece of legislation that has taken me five or six years to draft because it became so complicated and just kept getting bigger and bigger. It is the child maintenance legislation which would be placed within Revenue rather than an independent agency, which we have seen potentially would not work in terms...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: No, it is okay; I fully expected it. I am okay on this occasion.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”. I am going to actually withdraw these amendments. They are consequential on the amendments that were ruled out of order, so they do...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 16, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(b) the date on which the youngest child of shared parentage reaches the age of 18, or the age of 22 where the child is receiving full-time education,”.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 10: In page 25, after line 37, to insert the following: “Report on provision of supports to bereaved children 22. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas regarding the adequacy of supports provided to bereaved children, with particular reference to the children of lone-parent families,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This is a big Bill. I will focus on one part of it that stood out. Mr. McGill may be able to tell me if I understand this right. Does the Bill create an offence? If so, is it an administrative offence only or are there offences higher than that? If an entity does not adhere to what is set down by the competent authority or officer and does something that is not in line with that, an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: A competent authority could apply to the High Court to restrict senior management from their duties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: To put this in context and to better understand, if we take what happened with the NTMA last week as an example, would this Bill create a different framework from that which currently exists in the area of phishing scams or is cybersecurity different from being scammed, in a sense? Are they part of the same suite of areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: That is grand. Will Mr. McGill provide an example of non-adherence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Is there a scale proportional to the size of the company or industry? With smaller organisations, there is obviously a cost associated with bringing cybersecurity levels up to the requisite standard. Is funding available for those smaller companies or what way does that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: That is perfect. I thank Mr. McGill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I will start with Mr. Bruen. I know this is to give effect to an EU directive, and Mr. Bruen spoke about this Bill bringing consistency in a sense. However, to look at what is currently on the restrictive measures list and why they are on it, I went through the map of EU sanctions that is available online. Even under this Bill, the EU, and in some cases the EU and the UN, have arms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Beyond the criminal offences and money laundering, when we look at other areas such as trade, imports and exports - the Bill also covers a lot of other things - what mechanisms are in place currently or will be put in place under this Bill to provide oversight in terms of mapping right now? China, for example, has been on the weapons list since 1989. How does Ireland ensure that nobody in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Will there be resources to oversee that level of investigation?