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Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...for more expedient, rights-based regulations that keep people who use these services safe from harm. While the Bill offers some protections in terms of the online space, I firmly believe it does not go far enough. I intend to introduce amendments on Committee Stage to bake additional safeguards and rights-based protections into the primary legislation in order to address the shortfall....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...respect of legislative and policy changes, and how that might impact the Legal Aid Board and, potentially, the cases it might have to take on. What will happen if the scope widens but the budget does not widen with it? Should a budget analysis be undertaken on the type of investment the Legal Aid Board would need in the context of legislative or policy changes that impact on it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: This question is for either Mr O'Neill or Ms Hennessy. It relates to the 1951 convention in the context of non-refoulement and the EU pact. The information provided by the witnesses does not go into how the pact interplays with previous conventions in the context of eroding some of the protections and core principles within those conventions. Will the witnesses comment on what assessment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...of more expertise to inform our own understanding. Biometrics includes DNA scanning. DNA is a physical attribute. There are behavioural attributes and physical attributes. Being in the pact does not necessarily mean everyone would engage in DNA scanning, but it is included as an option under the biometrics heading.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is the Department saying that the EU pact only refers to biometrics - obviously, I have a problem with facial recognition provisions – and lists those biometrics? It does not say “biometrics identification”. It lists which biometrics will be used.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...the report but I am wondering about the survey process. I think there were more than 5,000 responses. The survey was evenly distributed in terms of the spread, but not everyone invited to respond does so. Was there a demographic breakdown of responses? Were demographics included in the survey to capture the race, class, disability and urban-rural responses? I do not know whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...and the full picture. They may have also been advised, terribly, by other people about what they should and should not say when get to a place. The fact is that it is a stand-alone piece and it does not have to be met along with other criteria, but people can be prevented from entering if they mislead authorities. It is very arbitrary. Could the Minister clarify the position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Currently, in Ireland we put people in prison for not having passports. We have people in detention right now for that exact reason, so I wonder how we are going to ensure that does not happen. The reference to misleading authorities is a concrete point if a person does not have documents but is there a definition provided? Are criteria listed for what constitutes "misleading information"?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...in case our witnesses want to take note, because there will be a few, if I can get through them. On head 3, which provides the extension of time for the seizure and detention of property, does this head encroach on a respondent's property rights in any sense? I refer, for example, to the right to legal representation or his or her access to it, given the shortage or barristers, time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...local authority houses that had been bought and sold back to the local authority, but have been stripped back completely. The State actually took out all of the investment that went into them. It does not make sense to me. That investment is not how much has been taken. Does that make sense? If a house is given to a person by the local authority, all of the houses have to look the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...it be introduced. That is where I am still stuck. To Dr. Ní Bhriain, I am curious about the intergenerational impact of assisted dying. The two reports she provided us with are about suicide. Does Dr. Ní Bhriain believe that suicide, as we understand it, is the same as assisted dying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: .... I would be more concerned about the intergenerational impact of watching someone starve or watching someone choose pain to die without medication. Is Dr. Ní Bhriain as concerned about that? Does she see that potentially a more caring system in very limited circumstances would actually have less of an intergenerational impact than the only option being the refusal of treatment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: In terms of the question, though, does Dr. Ní Bhriain believe that the intergenerational impact of the only option being the refusal of treatment is potentially more harming than a much more dignified, managed death - with those long conversations, not just some impulsive decision but the same process?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...On recommender systems, Dr. Ryan or another witness might like to come in on this. Is there any jurisdiction currently that disables these systems for young people? If the system is disabled, does that have to be done individually for each website or app, or is there a way we can programme each device to do it generally? I am probably not asking this question well because I am still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...but the time constraint is not helpful in one sense, although it means I have to look for yes-no answers. The first question is to the Garda Commissioner. I am looking for a simple answer. Does he oppose judicial overview of FRT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Therefore, the Commissioner does not oppose specifically referencing judicial approval in regard to this legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I have read the submission. It is a simple question. Does the Commissioner oppose us drafting judicial approval for FRT into this specific legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is the 99% based on how many times it does not match?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What does that mean? I am short of time. Let us say there are ten people and it has been tested against ten faces. Two people have come up wrong and eight people have come up as having not been matched at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...identified and then run through a system to measure them against lots of other faces but An Garda Síochána seems to be saying that no reference point is going to be used for facial recognition technology. That does not make very much sense. If anybody has watched the last session, will they use their expertise to clarify whether there is some sort of misunderstanding in those...