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Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Tánaiste. I also welcome Mr. Brian Sheehan from GLEN who is in the Visitors Gallery. We received the Bill in the latter part of last week and it is exciting to see how it has been changed and cleaned up. It now addresses quite a number of human issues. On each reading of the Bill I found myself asking questions about how I would use my time today. Some questions can be...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I know, which is why I have identified the issue. As a genealogist, I know that the office is under the auspice of the Minister's Department. Some have tried to suggest this is what the Bill is about, but that was not my perception on reading it. The starting point for me is Article 8 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the preservation of identity. It states children have a...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Leader was asked about the Court of Appeal Bill. I certainly support the view that All Stages should be taken together. The legislation reflects the will of the people. I have examined it and I am very supportive of it. I look forward to speaking about it. I am concerned about the time allocated for the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill. More questions arise the more I look at it....

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have tabled amendment No. 2. I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank the Minister and his officials most particularly for the detailed response to a series of questions I outlined in respect of the Bill. It is appreciated and it really helps our engagement in this process. This is the main issue I have with the Bill. I tabled the amendment to better ensure that the lacuna in the...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I also listened very carefully to the Minister's reply. The difficulty I have is that I do not consider this to be an additional aspect, rather I consider it to be a very new and distinct defence. The amendments that have been put down are designed to expand the rights of migrants to take a claim on the grounds of exploitation to the civil courts. If the Minister checks the drafting, he...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:"(3B) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) consisting of a contravention of subsection (1) to show that his or her contravention was a result of and/or a feature of exploitative work practices by the employer against him or her.",".

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: My difficulty is that all Stages of the Bill are being taken today. I would like to have heard the Minister's response to this proposal.

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister for that. Perhaps it is something we can examine in the context of regulations and guidance for employers. I will withdraw it on the basis of the Minister's response, given the time issue, but it may be an issue Senator Quinn and myself may raise again if we see that exploitative work practices are continuing.

Seanad: Court of Appeal Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and fully support the Bill. As has been said, this is the will of the Irish people. On 4 October 2013, 65% of them voted in favour of the establishment of the Court of Appeal, for which the Bill would provide. Many of the provisions of the Bill, as the Minister said, are based on the Report of the Working Group on a Court of Appeal, published in 2009 and chaired by...

Seanad: Court of Appeal Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the passage of the Bill. It is an historic occasion, as outlined in earlier debates. I hope that the legislation will speed up the process for people, individuals and businesses, and that it makes a huge different to how the courts system works and how it is perceived to work externally by other states. I also thank the Minister for her engagement. She endeavoured to answer the...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I raise a question I raised in written correspondence with the Minister outlining my concerns about the requirement to renew a work permit before an employee can take up new employment within the same economic sector. I refer to the one-year rule which we also discussed in relation to an earlier amendment. Work permits are initially granted for two years and cost €1,000 to renew. In...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister for the information he has provided to me on my concerns in this area. I am satisfied with the rationale provided and I will not be proceeding with the amendment. However, on the section, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight another issue that has already been raised with the Minister by the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland, MRCI, regarding joint...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Bill, which, as we noted on Second Stage, addresses many issues. I welcome the work that the Minister and his officials have done, and his engagement not only here in the House but between the Stages. As a final question, I was asked by some of the migrant workers to ask whether the Minister has any idea of the commencement date of the legislation, as I realise part of the...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Does the Minister have a commencement date for the legislation?

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is excellent.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support the Bill which is a technical measure. The issues raised by my colleagues concern the need for wider reform and to bring forward the reforms needed to ensure universal suffrage. When the Bill dealing with the university Senators is brought forward, we must ensure there is a proportionate balance when we examine it. However, I support this technical Bill as we must fill the vacancy.

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and it is great to see him here. There is much talk during Cabinet reshuffles of promotions, demotions or whatever but this is a dream job. The Minister has an opportunity to take a strong step to make Ireland one of the best places in which to be a child, to grow up and to transition into adulthood. There is a saying that third time is a charm and as this is the...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I contest whether they entered into that right of privacy.

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

Jillian van Turnhout: Youth justice is a matter for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.