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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Acting Chairperson for allowing me to attend this meeting as I am not a member of this committee. Unfortunately I did not receive the documents in advance but I have a personal interest in the subject. I thank Deputy Catherine Murphy and Senator McConghail for advising me of the agenda for today's meeting. I wish to address a question to Ms Eibhlín Roche on the Guinness...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and comprehensively outlining for us what is in the Finance Bill. I join others in welcoming measures such as the travel tax and the home renovation incentive but I will spend my time on the matters with which I have issues, which are section 7, obviously, and Part 3 on VAT where other matters could have been addressed but were not and I...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I spoke on Second Stage to advise that I have great difficulty with section 7 and the principles underlying it. Considering the recommendation before us and speaking to the 100-day provision, it seems to be an arbitrary figure that is unworkable. To preface what I say, the majority of primary carers are mothers and all the organisations working with lone parents, including Treoir,...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: While I welcome the Minister's explanation, the Commission on Taxation suggested previously that we tax or means-test child benefit. At the time I prepared a paper on behalf of the Children's Rights Alliance to show how unworkable that would be. It took the State four years to arrive at the same position. The Minister gave the example of a couple living in County Donegal, one of whom was...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister's commitment to consider the impact of the 100-day requirement if there are negative consequences. I stand in support of Senator Reilly in opposing the section. She has made a very good case about having a commencement order in order to allow a report on the impact of the section to be prepared, and if that happened I would not necessarily oppose the section. Perhaps...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I must ask Senator Barrett to report progress as it is 6 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I apologise for being delayed, as I was speaking in the Seanad. I come to this more as a citizen member than as a genealogical expert. My experience is that irishgeneology.ie, as well as the National Archives and National Library sites have always been excellent. I have seen the impact of the reduction in staff, however, which affects waiting times for overseas visitors. The staff are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Thank you, Chairperson. From my work on family history, I got very excited about digitising the Catholic parish records. I have used the rootsireland.ie site but a link to images was mentioned. We need that extra information but I am not always absolutely sure that it is the person I am looking for, since the information on that site is quite sparse at times. Are the National Archives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: My apologies, I had to leave. There was a vote in the Seanad. I read the submissions with great interest. I am an amateur. I have no difficulty in calling myself an amateur when it comes to genealogy. I am also a subscriber to findmypast.ie and Ancestry.com. I can testify to what they are talking about, for example, roots tourism. If I look at the access of records, for example, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We can get fixated on the debate on free versus paid-for records. Unless one happens to be living or, like me, working next to the National Library of Ireland, there is a cost to going to these places physically. That is often not taken into account in the argument of free versus paid content. I would like to see access to certain records of cultural heritage but there is a balance that...

Seanad: Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Senator not to mention names and advise her that her time is up.

Seanad: Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Senator. As no other Senators have indicated a wish to speak, I call the Minister.

Seanad: Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister please, without interruption.

Seanad: Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Dec 2013)

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

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 40 and 41 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 42 to 44, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Senator Cullinane, without interruption.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we have Senator Cullinane without interruption?

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we have Senator Cullinane without interruption?