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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: No, but I reserve the right to bring it back on Report Stage.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes, this is my amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: While I fully support these amendments, I seek clarity in respect of consistency in the Bill. Do Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to the Bill about "relevant work" still stand? While I agree with the Government's proposal that they should be removed from the Bill because the matter is addressed in the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act, when I look to Schedule 3 on...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is good.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We agree on this issue. The fact the new spent conviction arrangements would not apply to multiple convictions arising from a single offence or incident was raised on Second Stage. Today's amendments Nos. 22 and 23 seek to address that. I felt there was a danger that combining convictions of this nature could have had the effect of combining two minor sentences into a more serious...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Obviously, the overall rationale for my amendment is that the original rehabilitative periods put forward in this Bill of five to seven years for relevant custodial sentences and three to five years for relevant non-custodial sentences were too long. The Government's own amendment, which reduces these periods to four to five years and two to four...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Pornography (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to take this Adjournment matter. In February last the Independent group tabled a Private Members' motion in the Seanad seeking to block child abuse material on the Internet, at which time the Minister for Justice and Equality gave a clear commitment that the matter would be fully considered in the context of the proposed Criminal Law...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Pornography (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Next week will see the tenth annual safer Internet day. The Minister of State questioned the reference in my opening lines to a large quantity in circulation, but just one case-----

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Pornography (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: -----involved 135,555 images and videos. How many children in Ireland are we talking about? Please, let us not quibble over figures. Since Hotline.ie does not advertise, the public do not know that they can report cases. The countries that block can report how many hits per day those sites receive. I would accept this measure. Time and again, Internet service providers argue that it...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Pornography (30 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have no doubt of that.

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. I am interested in The Gathering. Like Senator Ó Murchú, I have a keen interest in issues of family history and ancestry. I am connected with many organisations around the world. I spent my summer holidays in Wisconsin tracing three generations of women who went to a small town there. Interestingly, Vice President Joe Biden also had ancestors who...

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

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

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will not be able to facilitate all speakers.

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I call Senator Colm Burke, who has five minutes. The Minister is concluding at 1.35 p.m. and four speakers remain on the list.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join in the tributes to former Senator, Martin McAleese, and on behalf of my group, I wish him a fond farewell and thank him for his contributions. I wish him every success with his future endeavours. I also thank his assistant, Ms Catherine Butler. We all await the interdepartmental committee report on the investigation into the State's involvement in the Magdalen laundries, on which Mr....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Report Stage (5 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 28, to delete ?12 months? and substitute ?2 years?.I note that two important amendments I raised on Second Stage and tabled as amendments on Committee Stage have been incorporated into the Bill by the Government. I thank the Minister for that. It is very important that we now have clarity about the application of the legislation with respect to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Report Stage (5 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: All of us who have spoken have acknowledged that this is ground-breaking legislation, the fact that it will impact on so many people and their families and give them a second chance. As I have no doubt that if the Minister was in our position, he would try to push it that little bit further, I ask him to look at our amendments in that light. I have looked at other common law countries and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Fifth Stage (5 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister for this historic legislation. It was long promised but he has delivered. This legislation on spent convictions has brought us into line with our European partners. I know that the Minister has played a strong role and hand in ensuring that we have a rehabilitation system and restorative justice. The legislation is testimony to that and I support it. During the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is six weeks since the new year. The Chinese new year was celebrated last Sunday. This is the year of the snake. My first question relates to a report that was promised in the new year. I believe we have qualified on both counts that we are in the new year. I refer to the report of the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare chaired by Ita Mangan. The Minister, Deputy Burton,...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Phil Prendergast, MEP. (13 Feb 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Acting Chairman for facilitating me and allowing me to speak. I apologise that I had to leave the Chamber briefly because I had to attend the internal meeting that also detained Senator Cummins. However, I was present for Ms Prendergast's intervention at the beginning. I welcome her. I still feel relatively new here but the issues that I wish to mention today relate to the...