Results 1-20 of 234 for long speaker:Lynn Ruane

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...stronger stance soon. It shows how the interest and care for the Palestinian people spans across all generations in Ireland, from me back to Carmencita Hederman, who was in Trinity and the Seanad long before I came along. Again, I send my solidarity to the academics mobilising across the country today.

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

Lynn Ruane: ...Bhriain's opening statement that there is a belief that there is a potential impact of assisted dying, but that research is not out there. Obviously, other jurisdictions have had assisted dying for a long time, and you would imagine they would have potentially accumulated some sorts of insights and research on whether there is a correlation between intergenerational trauma or...

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

Lynn Ruane: ..., 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?

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

Lynn Ruane: .... She spoke of not even being given a glass of water, and being in a sterile room with no soft furnishings or information about what was going to happen. Some families spoke about the incredibly long wait that they had in relation to their child - one son in particular - coming home, and the impact that has on the way Irish people hold funerals. They want to have a wake in the house and...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...from the joint policing forum. A member of the task force sits on the joint policing forum and feeds into the task force, and vice versa. Local drug and alcohol task forces have existed for a long time, focusing on community safety and ensuring they have representatives sitting in different community safety spaces. Not to have them named in the Bill, when they have played a crucial role...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...the more regional task forces, there is an institutional knowledge that exists such that if we were not to write them in from the offset, because they have been working on community safety for so long, we could do ourselves a disservice because we are not capturing that community-based knowledge. Many communities feel that way, and community safety groups or other forms of groups are put...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...shop to buy an anniversary card for her mam and dad and I remember feeling a bit silly because I did not know what it was and asked her, “What’s an anniversary card?” She said that an anniversary card was how long her mam and dad were married and I said it was interesting. I was not sure I recognised that as a thing in the house. My mind began to turn and turn. I...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It does tell them where their place is. I did not interrupt Senator McDowell's hour-long lecture. I felt like I was in a law lecture in UCD or something. However, Senator Keogan has twice intervened in my contribution. I ask her to show respect and not do so anymore. The Constitution says that a woman's place is in the home because it seeks to protect it with full force, nearly because it...

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: ...about "shall strive" can be argued out. I am more worried about the provision of care piece because I feel the provision of care is a one-way thing rather than a between thing. We could go a long way in fixing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...position I have come to is that I get it now. I get that the safeguards are the other side of it. Then I have to go back to not wanting to delay one in favour of the other because you could be a long time waiting for the State to meet all of those needs before something else comes into play. I have that framed now in terms of adequate living and access to everything needed being a...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...in the prison system are sometimes afraid to alert the prison authorities that there is a potential overdose because they feel it could result in punishment or raids on cells, so they may wait too long before they alert 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...

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

Lynn Ruane: .... A particular argument is to be made for the need to make room for the voices of individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system on the board of An Garda Síochána. I wish to highlight the need for expanded access to spent convictions, and inclusion more generally. I think this small amendment, though, would go a long way in allowing people who have expertise...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...are on the joint policing forums and safety forums and are feeding in at all those levels. Ultimately, if the Minister will not accept the amendment now, will she try to reframe the issue in the long run? It is not about just taking someone fresh from prison who says they want to be on the board of An Garda Síochána. How people are selected and appointed, the interview process...

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

Lynn Ruane: ...when we look at the public safety of society as a whole, in more micro situations, where some gardaí are extremely or unnecessarily heavy-handed in certain situations, it affects public safety in the long term because it affects the relationship between particular communities and An Garda Síochána. I will withdraw the amendments. I am trying to stretch out the idea that...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...tax relief in respect of cost to the exchequer and gender impact." I spoke about this on the previous Stage. I know Senator Black wants to come in on this. I have held the spot for her for as long as I could.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to retire. Rather than benefiting from the wealth that supposedly flows into our country, low-income workers around the country are told they must make yet more sacrifices at the end of their long working lives. They must work one or two years longer, and this is unacceptable. The framing that people at the end of their working lives - many after putting in decades of hard manual labour...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 13: “Report on extending eligibility for long-term carer’s qualifying contributions 46. (1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for extending eligibility for long-term carer’s qualifying contributions to...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 25, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Report on expanding recognition of long-term carer’s qualifying contributions 46.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for expanding recognition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...sort of a timeline from the Minister because if we can reduce the number of people returning to communities where recidivism will increase, that will obviously reduce the need for policing in the long run. Can the Minister gave me a response to that question?

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

Lynn Ruane: ...Dublin, but also that it is an unhelpful way to conceptualise violence and disorder more generally in terms of our shared ambition to create safer communities for us all. Working in the community sector for as long as I did, it was always extremely difficult to hear people who shared the intention of reducing crime or increasing safety saying "this is not my community" or "this is what our...