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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I raise with the Leader, and the Cathaoirleach, a decision made by the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges, CPP, yesterday to cease allowing Members to invite non-governmental organisations to host briefings in the AV room. I learned of this not as a member of the Seanad CPP. I learned it from Deputy Thomas Pringle's tweet. He tweeted, "Dáil CPP closes down presentation...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I also wish to comment on the report on direct provision centres referred to by Senators Hayden and Crown and reported on by Carl O'Brien today in The Irish Times. I have raised this issue on numerous occasions in this House, as have some of my colleagues, most notably Senator Ó Clochartaigh. We have continually called for clarification on many issues. I still have a concern about the...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (9 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Does the Acting Leader wish to propose a further suspension?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (9 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Could we just proceed with the suspension?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (9 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Irish Sign Language: Motion (9 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are dealing with motion No. 9 of No. 43 on the recognition of Irish Sign Language. Before we commence I welcome the members of the Irish Deaf Society. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for making arrangements for sign language interpretation to the Gallery for this important debate. We are all very supportive of the initiative. It is great to see it in the Chamber. I invite Senator...

Seanad: Irish Sign Language: Motion (9 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. It is wonderful to see her in this Chamber. I am very supportive of the motion tabled by my friend and colleague, Senator Martin Conway, and well supported by Senator Keane. I am not that familiar with this issue, so in advance I seek forgiveness if I step on toes and say the wrong things. I have a great many questions because as I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I welcome the announcements she made, in particular, on the adoption (tracing and information) Bill, on which I would certainly agree with her. I understand some of the constitutional issues. As she will be aware, when we were looking at the children referendum Bill, I raised in the Seanad the right to identity and the missed opportunity to look at that issue, but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I asked about the young people in the Monaghan centre. Its closure was announced but nothing was said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the Minister willing to meet a Seanad cross-party group with regard to direct provision to constructively look at what happens in Portugal and how we could use it in Ireland?

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will premise my statement by underscoring the importance of addressing today's budgetary measures and fiscal adjustment, the sixth in line of extremely difficult budgets since 2008, and the context of their cumulative impact since this is the reality of the way they are being experienced by people. As a Senator this is the third time I have...

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The places are not there. There is an urban-rural divide. I hear all too often that young people are being forced back into the family home. Once again, there is a geographical lottery. On the tax exemption for starting one's own business, does someone need to wait to be unemployed for over 15 months? We know most businesses do not make money in the first two years. I wonder what this...

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: No. The Government must spend it first then recoup it. That is why I am concerned about the €14 million because we must spend it before we recoup. I warmly welcome the free GP cards for children aged five years and under but we must ask ourselves about the discretionary medical cards. What children will lose out? In the Irish Examiner there is a very good case study profiling...

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I hear that the overseas development aid budget has been reduced by €14.1 million. I have a difficulty with the kind of society we are creating. I have voted for tax increases. I voted for property tax.

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Senator O'Brien and I have put forward ways in which the Department of Health can save a significant amount of money on children with life-limiting conditions. The Minister of State should not talk to me about solutions. I keep putting them forward.

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I keep putting them forward. The Minister of State has not even taken one step in the right direction on that issue. I have concerns about maternity and adoptive benefit. I ask the Minister of State to look at my record. I have put down solutions in this House. I have tried to be fair and equal in what I have said. Some of the measures are hidden. These small cumulative cuts will...

Seanad: Statistics (Heritage Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. As I have stated on the floor of the House previously, I am a very keen genealogist. I fully commend Senator Ó Murchú and I support the Bill before the House. I was a little taken aback by some of the things Senator Eamonn Coghlan said. The programme for Government includes a commitment to enable the publication of the 1926 census....

Seanad: Statistics (Heritage Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: What a choice of words.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: There is a vote in the Seanad and we will be gone shortly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I apologise to Deputy Fitzpatrick.