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Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...and many of the cases that, unfortunately, come before coroners. There is also the question of prisons. I have spoken to some men in prison about their experiences when somebody dies on their landing and perhaps they have found the body. There is almost an extra layer of stuff that happens there, which means that the prison carries out its own investigation then the coroner does as well....

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

Lynn Ruane: ...someone. We have the Red Cross in there training people as listeners and on overdose prevention and they could also be tasked to have peer-to-peer access to naloxone if something does happen on a landing, which could be in a glass box like in the JFK museum and other places in America.

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...of the Palestinian economy means that many workers have to work for pittance under abusive conditions in Israel or in illegal Israeli settlements, which have confiscated and hoarded Palestinian land, water and natural resources. The only way Palestinians can enter the settlement are as low-paid workers. To get there, they are not allowed to use segregated Israeli-only roads. Every day,...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...refugee population are living outside Europe, with 76% in low and middle-income countries, a number of European Union Member States are committed to preventing people seeking asylum from reaching Europe; regrets that: - European Union Member States, including Ireland, have moved from search and rescue missions to surveillance missions; - the Irish Government in 2017 entered the EU...

Seanad: Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... The Bill very positively addresses the significantly outdated mandates of Bord na Móna and Coillte to ensure that their remits take into account the need to protect, preserve and promote biodiversity in Ireland. As was noted, Coillte manages the largest individual share of land in the State - 7% of the land share - while Bord na Móna manages a further 1%. Bord na Móna is...

Seanad: Independent Review of the Handling of Past Complaints of Abuse in St John Ambulance Ireland: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Lynn Ruane: .... I thank the Fine Gael Senators, including Senators Seery Kearney and Doherty, for introducing it to the Chamber for debate this afternoon. I will begin by commending Mick Finnegan, Paul Mulholland, Martin Hoey, Mark Pender and the other victims and survivors of the abuse that was perpetrated within St. John Ambulance. It took great courage for victims and survivors to come forward and...

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

Lynn Ruane: .... As we know, large scale infrastructure projects and road development can often necessitate the removal and destruction of trees and hedgerows. This amendment would permit the Dublin Transport Authority to acquire land to protect and preserve semi-mature trees and hedgerows, taking particular account of those that are more than 20 years old. Mature trees and hedgerows play a critical...

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...rainforest nations, Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have formally launched a climate partnership to work together on conservation.Countries in the global north, including Ireland, must do everything we can to support the protection of our rainforests and ensure there is an end to multinational companies actively destroying nature and biodiversity. I am not sure if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Yes. That is grand. I outlined the abuses and the pollution on the land and in the air. I know that the ESB is a member of the Bettercoal initiative, but aside from that, has the ESB implemented any form of due diligence on the supply chain? I take the advice on who the question may be directed at, but perhaps it is something the witnesses could take back or the committee can write to the...

Seanad: Institutional Burials (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (29 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...burials are likely to have taken place in an institutional setting, to provide for cases where persons who consider that they are related to persons thought to be buried on principal burial land indicate that an excavation of the land is their preference, and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...'s circumstances but look to addressing them in the long term with a vision for generations to come in terms of market income inequality, that is, income inequality before transfers are applied. Ireland has one of the highest rates in the EU in that regard. More than half a million people in this country are living in poverty. Civil society groups working on behalf of those living in...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 100: In page 66, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Local authorities and higher education land use 73.For the avoidance of doubt and to protect the role of local authorities, nothing in this Act shall be construed as granting the Minister or An tÚdarás the power to compel designated higher education institutions to dispose of land or...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...new section into the Bill to clarify that "nothing in this Act shall be construed as granting the Minister or An tÚdarás the power to compel designated higher education institutions to dispose of land or other assets or to change the primary use of land or other assets owned by such institutions." Amendment No. 101 seeks to insert a new section into the Bill to clarify that...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I will be concise, given we have little time to get through the amendments. The amendment will amend the meaning of "principal burial land" in the interpretation section. Currently, the section defines a principal burial land as land "associated with an institution where burials have taken place ... of persons who died while resident at the...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...amendment No. 5: In page 15, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following: “(c) the making of the order is in line with the wishes of the majority of relatives of persons buried on the land.”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...achieving, so I propose a deletion and substitution that specifies the Government may make an order where doing so is in line with the wishes of the majority of relatives of persons buried on the land. I believe Deputy Cairns said it best in the Dáil debate when she said this provision creates unnecessary barriers. In what scenario could excavating an institutional burial site not...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...a burial ground in whole or in part. In doing so, the amendment would ensure that the authorised interventions occur in the greatest possible number of cases. As drafted, principal burial land would not be eligible for intervention if even a small part of the land comprised a regulated burial ground. This amendment expands the provision to ensure that regulated burial lands can be...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 8: In page 15, to delete lines 22 and 23 and substitute the following: “(d) recovery of human remains from the land would pose risk of serious physical harm to persons responsible for the excavation,”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...(3), the Government shall make every effort to resolve difficulties and to decide, in consultation with relevant persons, whether it is necessary and proportionate to thoroughly examine burials on the land, before it is determined that memorialisation of the burials on the land, without further intervention, is more appropriate.”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...Stage, in that it specifies that the Government shall consult with relevant persons and parties when deciding whether it is necessary and proportionate to thoroughly examine burials on the land. It ensures that creating a memorial is not used as a window-dressing exercise to avoid excavation of a burial site. The amendment ensures that a memorial, without further intervention, is only...