Results 521-540 of 1,827 for speaker:Jillian van Turnhout

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: In Athlone, we went to the room where the preschool is provided. It was a very good room provided by Westmeath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister raised the child deaths reports, which I raised at a committee meeting a few weeks ago. At one of our first meetings, the Minister committed to giving us the reports from the Helen Buckley review group, that is, that we would get them as they came out. We have not got them and I know a message was to be sent to the Minister's Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We have not got them. We hoped that as a committee we would automatically get them, so perhaps that could be looked at. On youth work funding, I very much welcome the Minister's assurances that there are no plans to transfer the schemes to the City of Dublin VEC. Will she also confirm that there is not a plan for two new schemes for youth work funding to replace the current youth work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes and I just wanted it to be put on the record and clarified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: At the weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Scouting Ireland delegate conference, which brought together 800 delegates representing 40,000 members. Two motions which were voted on will be of interest to the House. One was on Scouting Ireland's fears the proposed sale of Coillte will threaten its open access policy. Unbeknownst to me until I arrived, another motion had been tabled...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister for Education and Skills to the House. I call on Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill to raise his Adjournment matter.

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Under Standing Order 21, I wish to establish a quorum.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Bill will transpose some important provisions of the EU anti-trafficking directive into domestic legislation, which is very much welcome. I thank the Minister of State for outlining the Bill's contents. I welcome the inclusion of a definition of "forced labour" based on the International Labour Organisation Convention No. 29 of 1930...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: As no other Senators are offering I invite the Minister of State to conclude the debate.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would have loved to have been able to extend the time available to the Minister of State but it is not in my power and I must keep to the timetable. I thank the Minister of State for her co-operation and I thank all Senators.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: When is proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is over.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP. There are many aspects of his work that I would like to raise and commend him on. Perhaps I shall limit myself to crediting him for his work on the committee called Delegations for Relations with the United States. Senator Cummins mentioned the EU-US trade agreement and a number of Senators are following its progress. I also commend Mr. Kelly on his...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome Ms Childers to the House. I wish to remark on her admirable commitment to transparency and accountability, especially in the area of appointments. In her words today she showed clearly that is something she practices. It is something we need to formalise more, within national as well as European institutions. I also note her 20 years' experience as a mental health professional,...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Charities Regulation: Motion (1 May 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are having a very good debate on this and we could say we are all in agreement and that the word on this is "consensus". However, knowing Senator O'Brien as I do, I feel she would like the word to be "urgency" and to feel we are bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to this motion. It is good that we have consensus, but is that good enough? It is not, and that is the reason Senator O'Brien...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Marian Harkin, MEP (2 May 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome Ms Harkin to the House and acknowledge her long-standing involvement in EU affairs. From her career in the European Parliament and the Lower House, one notes the diversity of policy areas in which she has made written declarations. She has an extremely strong record on human rights and equality issues which she demonstrated again today. I would single her out for her work on...