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Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Motion (4 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator's time is up.

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I wish to address with the Minister of State a specific aspect of the legislation relating to small businesses that often gets overlooked - that is, the area of child care. Currently, there are 4,700 notified early childhood care and education services in Ireland, which employ 22,000 staff and provide sessional full-day and after-school care for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We have had many deliberations already about the need for a multi-faceted approach to this problem. Part of me worries that we are over-analysing and over-complicating the problem. I never thought I would refer to Ms Ann Widdicombe in this context, but she said that she would love to write a book on obesity and losing weight but the only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Some products are highly processed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is voluntary.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I echo everything said in the Chamber this morning about St. Patrick's Institution. There is a need for greater urgency because, as has been said, there are still 17 to 21 year olds detained at the institution. Therefore, the problem has not gone away. I ask for an update on the development of a detention school at a site located at Oberstown-Lusk. We need to ensure that when children are...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes.

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption: Statements (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will try to be succinct. I have five specific questions to ask the Minister of State but first I wish to comment briefly on the issue. I am speaking as a Senator, as a children's rights activist and as a proud Irish citizen. My first concern relates to the social and cultural acceptability of our excessive alcohol usage. It disturbs me how frequently and casually excessive drinking and...

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 25 to 28, inclusive, and amendment No. 36 are related and may be discussed together.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we keep within the scope of the Bill, please?

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we can keep within the scope of the Bill, please? I am conscious of the need to keep within the timeframe indicated.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Acceptance of the amendment will involve the deletion of section 18.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The amendment has already been discussed with amendment No. 2. I note that if the amendment is agreed, then amendment No. 34 cannot be moved.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Please stick to the topic.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Please keep within the scope of the Bill.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: It has been agreed. We have just had a vote and the question was carried. Do you wish to comment now that the Bill has passed?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will ask a number of supplementary questions before briefly discussing the forthcoming referendum. I asked a question on extending the remit of the Ombudsman for Children. The report on St. Patrick's Institution is timely. I welcome the statement from the Minister that she is looking favourably at the Ombudsman for Children's request to extend...