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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: Is that if a report is made to the HSE?

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: That would be positive.

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister's plans for the literacy and numeracy strategy. I remember working on the National Economic and Social Forum report on this subject. I was alarmed at the figures, with one in ten children leaving school with literacy issues and rising to one in four children in disadvantaged areas. Someone tried to tell me it was okay because other European countries had higher...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: This was the message parents were getting from schools. I do not refer to all teachers. We read all the reports and talk about everyone working together in the community and how education is not just the preserve of schools. It is important that, when examining plans, we should try to involve the community. We have outstanding teachers working with communities but there is also an...

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I thank my Labour Party colleagues for tabling the motion. It is great that there is harmony in the House as everyone welcomes the initiatives and strategies to deal with mental capacity legislation, dementia, Alzheimer's and positive ageing. I would like to move beyond words and explore ways we can make the issues before us tangible. We can all say these words but...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. We are all very acutely aware of the facts and reminded on a daily basis of the serious financial difficulty we have and the shortfall of ¤16 billion. There are also requirements under the terms of the EU-IMF bailout agreement to reduce our borrowing for 2013 by ¤3.5 billion. The Minister's Department has a budget of ¤20.5 billion, accounting for 40%...

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I thank my Labour Party colleagues for tabling the motion. It is great that there is harmony in the House as everyone welcomes the initiatives and strategies to deal with mental capacity legislation, dementia, Alzheimer's and positive ageing. I would like to move beyond words and explore ways we can make the issues before us tangible. We can all say these words but...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. We are all very acutely aware of the facts and reminded on a daily basis of the serious financial difficulty we have and the shortfall of ¤16 billion. There are also requirements under the terms of the EU-IMF bailout agreement to reduce our borrowing for 2013 by ¤3.5 billion. The Minister's Department has a budget of ¤20.5 billion, accounting for 40%...

Seanad: Social Welfare Appeals System: Motion (7 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I support the statements made by my Independent colleagues, Senators Mac Conghail and Zappone. Their interventions were spoken with great sincerity and were a call to ensure the independence of the social welfare appeals system. I welcome the report by FLAC which provides the evidence and underpins the motion. I thank my colleagues, in particular, Senator Zappone,...

Seanad: Matter raised under Standing Order 30 (8 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. We are all aware the Supreme Court has today made a ruling against the Government by finding that its ¤1.1 million spend on the children's referendum information campaign did not comply with the principles of the McKenna judgment. It should be noted that the Supreme Court did not make any order against the Government but rather rightly assumed...

Seanad: Matter raised under Standing Order 30 (8 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is no problem. I shall name organisations: Arc Adoption, the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development, Barnardos, BelongTo, Bessborough Centre, the Border Counties Childhood Network, the Campaign for Children, the Children at Risk in Ireland Foundation, Catholic Youth Care, Childminding Ireland, Children in Hospital Ireland, Children's Rights Alliance, COPE Galway,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I congratulate the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, his Department, the permanent missions of Ireland to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, and everyone else involved in Ireland's successful bid to secure a seat on the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. It will be an interesting three years and I look forward to Ireland's renewed focus on the implementation of the Human...

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator's time has expired.

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator is well over time.

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister of State to continue, without interruption.

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we hear the Minister of State without interruption, please?

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State. When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I note the Senator's disappointment that there was no Minister available to answer her question. I shall ask the Cathaoirleach to allow her to table the matter on the Adjournment tomorrow. I hope that a Minister or Minister of State can be provided at that point. I call Senator Mulcahy.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Domiciliary Care Allowance (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Transport (13 Nov 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: We join the Minister in wishing him well.