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Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Senator Crown would have time to consider the issue.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: In fairness to Senator Crown, the Minister did not respond specifically to the amendment. I ask him to advise the House of his position on it.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: He addressed the matters raised in subsequent amendments in this group.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: We spoke on Second Stage about the resources available to the tobacco industry and the type of plotting and planning in which it engages. As Senator Crown has highlighted, the industry is certain to devise new ways of marketing, branding and promoting its products which we cannot foresee. My understanding is that the intention of the amendment is to set the parameters in this regard. That...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: That relates to a wrapper.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Section 7(8) deals with a wrapper.

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister for introducing this legislation in the Seanad. I thank him and the officials from the Department of Health for their personal commitment to it. I also thank the legal advisers who ensure we are well armed. I note too the contribution of the advocacy organisations, particularly the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Heart Foundation, and the children’s rights...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Provision of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to thank all the witnesses and, in particular, Caroline Sloan for her courageous testimony. In preparing for today's meeting, I thought of my experience in voluntary organisations such as the girl guides. That is when I had the experience of using an EpiPen. At the beginning of the meeting, our examination of the relevant legislation was mentioned along with civil liability issues....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Provision of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is good to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Provision of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: It must be.

Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (25 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I would like to thank Senator Bacik, who like me has worked on this issue, for initiating the motion before us. I am very happy to second the motion and thank her for her co-operation. I raised this issue back in May during the Seanad debate on the abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria that Boko Haram had threatened to sell into forced marriage. Like...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister of State is welcome to the House but I am disappointed that the Minister, Deputy Hogan, is not here.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: When the Minister of State hears the issues I wish to raise he will understand why I say that. I wish to first make a disclosure on this issue as it is about the scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector. I was chief executive of the Children's Rights Alliance, which is one of the recipients, and I am the chair of Children in Hospital Ireland. Neither of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for that.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is said that one should not shoot the messenger.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: As the Minister of State will understand, I am totally and utterly unhappy with the reply because I received it in February also. I have heard about the process and the outline previously. The Minister of State should explain it to the staff whose last day of work is on Monday. There is a cost to the organisations because they have to pay staff for holidays and other costs. We are talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their informative contributions. I welcome that the committee is considering the issue of adoption. As we have agreed to consider separately the issues pertaining to information and tracing, I will focus my comments on domestic and intercountry adoptions and to briefly consider the legislation. In regard to domestic adoption, we passed the children's referendum in...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (1 Jul 2014)

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

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (1 Jul 2014)

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

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive, form a composite proposal and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.