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Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...separation on Committee Stage but it is important that I make it clear during this final debate. It is a gross abuse of the trust of survivors that forced family separation is totally absent and completely unrecognised within the redress scheme. The sole use of the length of stay and number of days criterion as a basis for this scheme goes directly against the recommendations of the OAK...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...that the institution does not just mean the four walls. It is bigger than that. Political institutions are made up of several houses. With regard to co-location on sites, when we refer to mother and baby institutions, we do not just mean the physical space, we mean everywhere the institutions' arms reached into. Last week's amendments narrow eligibility because, where people...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on recognition of experiences of mixed-race children 19. (1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential to extend the Scheme to recognise the experiences of mixed-race children in Irish institutions....

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In relation to the co-location issue, what I am struggling with is the fact that we are talking about hospitals and county homes but they were operating under the same management. Did they not have the same structures and umbrella? Mother and baby homes were stand-alone institutions but what were the structures in county homes? There were two separate institutions operating within the one...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Then we are legislating for experience and we are making them relational. We have situations and then we have circumstances. Circumstances are many within the whole of a situation. What we are then saying is that this legislation is not about mother and baby homes or county homes but rather about situations. That situation is as long as a piece of string. In one sense, we are trying to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...that a woman was in the county home, unless she was in the county home. I am saying the recognition happens later on. Later on, we are saying that the circumstance of being in the county home, and a woman may have happened to be transferred there to have a baby, is considered as part of the experience. We are saying it is the same facility because they looked after each other in terms...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Did you ever hear the question, "What is a university?". You then point at the university and ask whether it is the university. There are different schools within it, and different this and that. It feels like that in respect of this matter. What is the mother and baby home? What is the county home? I am struggling with the fact there will be women who may not have slept in a county...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I will bring in an example that happened in my personal network this week. It relates to a mother who has a child and already cares for her grandchildren. They have a wide extended family. A new baby was born to the parents who have had the rest of their children taken into care. Tusla intervened and took the child without communicating with the grandmother who has the children. The...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...I rise today in support of the motion which will see the establishment of the office of authorised intervention that will oversee the excavation, recovery, analysis, identification where possible, and appropriate reinterment of the infant remains located at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. This is a development which has been far too long in the...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move: That Seanad Éireann: notes with concern that: - the cost of renting in the State has approximately doubled in the last decade; - the cost of rent and mortgage repayments are having a significant impact on people’s financial security, with approximately 20% of the population being at risk of poverty when rent and mortgage payments are deducted from disposable income,...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for being in the Seanad today. I sat down to read this report last week and I have been reading for days. I read it with a view that I was a pregnant, unmarried minor, albeit only 20 years ago. I also read it as someone who would have been deemed an illegitimate child when I was born in the early 1980s. When a family is given support and not punishment, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020)

Lynn Ruane: ..., he stated that he planned to examine the possibility of including a new discrimination ground of socioeconomic status in equality legislation. I have advocated on this issue for many years and am concerned by the weakness of that commitment, in light of all the work and advocacy that has been conducted, particularly by the Minister's Department. The issue has been the subject of...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Lynn Ruane: Amendments Nos. 25 and 27 relate to the contents of the records being deposited with the Minister under this Act. An index that was appropriately anonymised would be vital in ensuring that the records could be used appropriately for memorialisation and truth-telling purposes. It would also be important as a sign to survivors that light will eventually be shed on the records proposed to be...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister for being in the Seanad today. I thank the many survivors and their advocates and allies who have contacted me and other Members this week on this Bill. I have not had a chance to go through the more than 4,000 emails I have received since Monday but I and others have heard the concerns being expressed loud and clear. There has been a strong reaction for a reason. We...

Seanad: Adoption, Information and Tracing: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Chair. I thank the Minister for her presence in the Chamber this afternoon. I welcome the fact that the Bill has not returned for Committee Stage and that instead we are instead having statements on adoption, information and tracing. On a purely practical level, I certainly did not feel I had had enough time to review the more than 150 amendments from Government and Opposition...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Lynn Ruane: We have tabled five amendments in this group which all relate to access to terminations in early pregnancy. My main concern is the three-day waiting period and the way in which pregnancies will be dated. Amendment No. 29 would allow the three-day wait to start from the moment a woman requests the appointment with the medical practitioner. Amendment No. 31 would allow for the three-day...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Lynn Ruane: I second everything Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell said. I feel empathy as someone who was an unmarried teenage mother from a disadvantaged background. In another time, I would have fulfilled all the criteria of somebody who would have been an outcast in society. Although I can never truly understand what women and children have gone through, I appreciate I could have been in that position...