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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Question No. 3 relates to Health Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025. I attended the launch, where there was great fanfare about it being a superb initiative. However, I was disappointed. It is all about joined-up government and working together to have a healthier Ireland. Despite this, the Department of Education and Skills has reduced the number of physical...

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State. Today we are being asked to annul SI 325 of 2012 which gives effect to the European Union directive on standards of quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantation. We all know that Ireland was legally obliged to legislate under EU law to ensure a common set of standards throughout the European Union and that is something we can all agree on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I echo the welcome to our guests. I look forward to a discussion of the corporate plan at a future date. The new inspection process will begin with inspections of residential services for children and adults with disabilities. I have a supplementary question following from Deputy Ó Caoláin's question. Does HIQA envisage a timeline for the inspection of all 1,700 centres? These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: There is a lack of accountability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Department of Justice and Equality and the HSE. I have done quite a lot of work in the area, but the answers I have received from the Government to date are not appropriate.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I also wish to support my colleagues, Senators O'Donnell and Mac Conghail in the tabling of this motion, which I fully support. I do not wish to get tied up in knots about terms like "core" or "compulsory" because I welcome the junior certificate reform. My own background is in youth work and much of what we practice in non-formal education is being brought into the classroom and the formal...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support Senator O'Brien in his call for No. 2 to be discussed. It is something we should do to ensure any inquiry is as we intend it and as we would expect. Perhaps it cannot be facilitated today but if there were a commitment, I would be supportive of it. I commend the French Senate, which yesterday banned beauty pageants for children under 16 years. In fact, it will impose prison...

Seanad: Directive of European Parliament on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I too welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for his comprehensive presentation on the EU directive. I could say a lot on issues related to the directive, but I intend to focus on article 25 which relates to child abuse material online. I welcome the commitments the Minister has given this morning. Among the wide-ranging provisions relating to criminal offences and sanctions in...

Seanad: Directive of European Parliament on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: It would be shame if a Sinn Féin representative did not get to speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Last Thursday, in the light of the introduction of a ban by the French Senate, I expressed my opposition to the child beauty pageant due to take place in Dublin. I am delighted to say the hotel where it was planned to be held cancelled the booking and that no other hotel in Ireland would take the event. Eventually, it was a rushed event in a bar in County Monaghan. I thank all of the...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act (Commencement) Order 2013: Statements (24 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister is most welcome. It is very useful to have this opportunity to clarify the provisions we are discussing. People throughout the country are eager to know what form the banking inquiry will take. It is a welcome development that this House is being used as a forum to allow the Minister to set out exactly what is proposed. I echo Senator Thomas Byrne's comments on the Committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medicines and Medical Products: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (24 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the delegation. I wish to add to the comments of my colleague, Deputy McLellan, on the illegal importation of drugs. That 758,000 dosages were intercepted by customs is alarming because although I realised we had a problem, I did not realise the scale and nature of it. Were the drugs imported for individual use or were they intended to be traded? The IMB stated in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medicines and Medical Products: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (24 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: In regard to the 2%, have they all bought medicines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medicines and Medical Products: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (24 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: What does Mr. Lynch mean by "lifestyle"? It that about a person's health?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. David Begg (25 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I too wish to join in the welcome to David Begg and thank him for his very interesting address. Like all Members I have plenty to say about how present-day Ireland compares with the Ireland of the 1913 Lock-out. I refer to areas such as child poverty, socioeconomic disparities, the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, sub-standard housing and accommodation -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses. I agree with my colleagues that the presentations were very clear. Deputy Healy picked up the point on community care. It is a strand that runs through all, as does the concept of rights and not charity. The fair deal scheme, respite care, the carer's allowance and even the policy decision Mr. Dunne talked about in Kilkenny all come together. When we try to raise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The witnesses are doing great work and I will try not to duplicate the questions. With regard to the Irish Hospice Foundation and children's palliative care, I was at a launch a few years ago and the HSE was very positive about how it would make the process sustainable. Will Ms Edghill clarify when the wheels came off that commitment? I thought sustainability was on track so where is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I must make a declaration of interest as I was a former chief executive of the Children's Rights Alliance and a former president of the National Youth Council of Ireland. They say that every day is a school day and the figure Ms Tanya Ward gave initially, which Deputy Ó Caoláin just missed, was that there has been a 13.4% increase in the child population since 2006. We have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is crazy.

Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.