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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Section 1 of the Bill deals with amending that Act.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are denying people in Dublin and we are denying the Seanad.

Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank my colleague, Senator O'Donnell, for putting forward this motion for debate and for starting a conversation and discussion on this issue. Senator O'Donnell accompanied me, as a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, to the committee hearings and we both participated actively in them. I learned a lot by having her there. In developing this overarching...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would like some clarification. When we met the officials the other day - I thank them for all the work they have done, in particular Geraldine Luddy and Dilly O'Brien - they clearly said that there was no outstanding issue or impediment to this Bill going to the Dáil. The Minister's Department has no issue nor does any other Department, so when we accept these amendments, there is no...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister's decision to bring the definition of "child" into line with the definition in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which covers persons up to 18 years of age. While I accept the Cathaoirleach's ruling that we cannot order the business of the Dáil, I can ask a question of one of the 166 Members of the other House - the Minister. His officials told us that...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister and, particularly, Senator John Crown for taking the initiative and asking Senator Mark Daly and me to join him. I was proud to do so. I also acknowledge the work done by Mr. Shane Conneely. I thank the Minister's officials and advisers. It would be remiss of me not to mention Fionn O'Callaghan, aged nine years, whom Senator John Crown brought to the first briefing on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister is very welcome. I had not planned to comment on adoption and I know the committee will examine the issue after Easter but it is important. I contacted those monitoring the Hague convention and Ireland is at a median average for adoptions. We are not in an unusual position. If we examine the figures throughout the EU Ireland is not out of kilter. The reality, about which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Apr 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: While I am greatly saddened that such services are necessary at all, I welcome the opening this evening of Ireland’s first FGM, female genital mutilation, clinic at the Irish Family Planning Association’s clinic on Cathal Brugha Street. The clinic will provide treatment to an estimated 4,000 women who have suffered FGM in or outside Ireland. FGM, as we know, is an abhorrent...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: We have many brilliant activities for children and young people in Ireland and child beauty pageants are not among them. I express my thanks to the Irish Hotels Federation which has continued to support the motion passed in the House and our work and it also condemns child beauty pageants.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join in welcoming the Minister of State to the House once again. I also thank my Labour Party Senators for tabling the motion and giving us an opportunity to debate disability services, particularly Senators Bacik and Moran. I join in the welcome extended to the delegation from the Centres for Independent Living. I also welcome Mr. John Dolan and Ms Jacqueline Grogan from the Disability...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will not comment on the events surrounding the former Minister, Deputy Shatter's resignation, but I extend personal thanks to him. When he was Opposition spokesperson on children and I was chief executive of the Children's Rights Alliance, he always showed his belief in children's rights, and he certainly took that into his role as Minister for Justice and Equality. His engagement with us...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Why have them tabled as motions without debate?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: When we try to put them back on the agenda, we will be told that the Seanad has approved these reports. The first report emanates from work on which the Independent group, of which I am a member, tabled a motion. In the Seanad, we held an excellent debate. We came back to the motion six months later and extended the debate, which led to the consultations that the Joint Committee on Justice,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I had intended it to be a specific amendment. I apologise.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I propose that the motions be deleted from the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: There are three motions.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Deputy Leader.