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

Lynn Ruane: If we were discussing drug policies, people from the Department and from the social inclusion area would talk about which drug policies are best and those that are not good.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...questions were tabled by the Deputies as the relevant statistical data had not been published since 2014. We know stop and search powers are regularly invoked and, occasionally, abused on the suspicion that an individual may be carrying drugs on their person either for consumption or sale. We know too that Garda personnel are reluctant to let these powers go and that this is a major...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 60: In page 95, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "(i) a local drug and alcohol taskforce,". We have had some brief discussion on this issue previously. The amendment seeks to add local drug and alcohol task forces to the definition of what constitutes a public service body under the Bill. As drafted, the Bill includes references to a vast range...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I take that on board and understand it. The Minister is correct that there are not task forces in every area. It will be very specific. It is not always drugs and alcohol. It often has a much wider remit than only responding to drug and alcohol use because these exist within community infrastructure in general relating to many other issues within the community. Drug-related intimidation...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: .... I would love a timeline as to when she will look at the regulations as regards what they look like. Why are statutory organisations the only mandatory bodies? Let us forget about even drug and alcohol task forces for the moment. As regards community representatives, why is community in some framework not captured in the mandatory bodies?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...or chief executive of a local authority? Amendment No. 79 seeks to insert a new paragraph into subsection (2)(c)(iii) which would provide that representatives of other local committees, partnerships and task forces, including local drugs and alcohol task forces and any other local structures working to enhance the lived experience within their communities, would be appointed to the CSPs....

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...cannot provide whether that is when the children are sick or need help or maybe there is a parent-teacher meeting they need to attend. When I went to college and when I started out working in the drugs sector, it was not me the school rang; it was my daughter's father or my dad. My dad was at the school gates every day. He was the one who got the phone calls when my daughter was sick,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...will see that as a great thing because it is reducing the amount of opioids coming out of a country and going around the world. However, it then leaves a hole because people will create synthetic drugs to which we are probably not ready to respond or catch up with so everything has a consequence. Unfortunately, in the past few months, we have seen what this consequence is. The fact that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...who could give insight to family members on what is expected of them in an emergency if a trained person is not around. Training is important, but other than bringing someone around this is not a drug that is going to cause any harm. I am glad to hear that the authorities are looking at ways to make naloxone prescription free. I hope the Minister of State can also communicate with the...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to serve on boards. We see many people in our prison system now leaving there and going to university to study criminology, sociology, etc. I have two friends now with PhDs who cannot get any sort of work in any area they have studied in. I think they would be an asset to any board, and especially this board. At the level of the drug task forces, we have also struggled to get people...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...would still have full control of who is on it. A person cannot just demand to be on the board anyway. People have to show they work in the area, such as working in community development, as a drugs worker, in youth and community sectors or whatever field. Yes, they have a previous conviction. We see people who have done time in prison during their lives working on task forces and in...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 21, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(iv) drug or alcohol use.”. I welcome the Minister. Amendment No. 2 seeks to insert, in page 21, between lines 25 and 25, the phrase "drug or alcohol use". It is a simple amendment which seeks to add drug and alcohol use to the definition of what constitutes vulnerability in the...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...and we are us and we are to stay in this type of dynamic with each other". I remember that when I first tried to set up a programme in 2008, I ironically - probably to amuse myself - called it the DPP, the drug-dealers pilot programme. I thought DPP was a clever name for it at the time, and I still think it is. I will explain what happened there. Even those who want to work with people...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...outrage when it comes to the housing, health, education and poverty crises? Other policies which I see as violent and not safe include austerity, children being raised in hotels, direct provision, our drug laws, the State oppression of Travellers, underfunding of mental health, prison, the guards not answering calls from domestic violence victims, treatment of single mothers and austerity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...on contentious issues. Doctors, nurses and other health professionals are not the only people with a conscience or moral integrity around upholding laws within society. I will take the area of drug use, for example. Imprisoning an addict who has been caught with heroin does not have any therapeutic value. Some gardaí, judges or whoever may ask why they cannot conscientiously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the task of [the] medical [profession]. However, there is no requirement under any Swiss law or regulation that prescription substances must be used. Does that mean off-license or unlicensed drugs are used? What exactly does that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: When we spoke with hospices, the hospices named the drugs that are administered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: We will start that aul clock again, right? Basically, my question was around how to navigate this system. Is that sentence saying that under a legal model, physicians are able to use drugs that are not licensed under the medical council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to put this on the record. When we went into private session Senator Mullen asked if there was agreement by the committee that we would not mention certain drugs. When we came back into public session, we did not confirm that that was not the actual case. The transcript should be consistent in terms of the conversation to reflect the break in the committee.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use for its work over the past six months or so, although I kept a close eye on it and gave out every now and again, as you do, just to make sure the agenda was moving along. I spent the weekend dipping in and out of the hearings. At some stages, I was trying to figure out what was going on and what was being presented. Then, on Monday morning,...