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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I, too, thank Paul for helping me to learn the ropes, especially at the beginning, and for telling me what we can and cannot do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank him very much. This committee has dealt with some very significant and very sensitive issues and his guidance has been very useful. I thank him for that. I welcome Mr. Murphy and hope he finds us a good team. We tend to work quite well and across party on the issues. Health and rights of children are our priority on which we work well. I also welcome Mr. Breslin with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and for their replies to questions. In question No. 14 I asked about the resources for preparing staff for Children First. It was indicative that when I submitted this question I was asked whether I had directed it to the right Minister. I am asking about the training of more than 70,000 staff in the HSE who will deal directly with children. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I agree but I know that there are units which only deal with anorexia and certain issues and they will not take the children who need help and that is not acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I did not yet receive all the answers to the questions I asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I inquired about the model of care relating to neurology, and Dr. Carroll may have some good news for me. I would, therefore, welcome it if an answer were provided in respect of the question I posed. On child and adolescent mental health, there is a need for national co-ordination. I am more concerned now than ever with regard to what is happening in this area, particularly in light of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: What about the position in respect of Carlow-Kilkenny?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would also like to welcome the opportunity we will have tomorrow to debate Irish Water. I acknowledge in particular the role of my colleague, Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell, who called strongly for such a debate. As the Leader and the other Members of the House will be aware, an ISPCC Childline coffee morning fund-raiser was held in Leinster House last month. I thank everybody who...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. I have a number of issues I would like to raise, particularly in the area of children's health. I apologise in advance because I will have to leave early as there is a meeting of the Committee on Health and Children at 5.30 p.m. on child protection which I need to attend. The first issue I would like to raise is the issue of mental health. I know the...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: They are fragmented and poor. In particular, on the issue of strokes, there was a report compiled for the Irish Heart Foundation by the ESRI and the RCSI entitled Towards Earlier Discharge, Better Outcomes, Lower Cost: Stroke Rehabilitation in Ireland. It clearly shows that the savings from reduced hospital costs would outstrip the cost of early supported discharge. The difficulty, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child Protection Services: Discussion (4 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the members of the delegation and thank them for their work they do in their respective roles. In particular, I thank Dr. Buckley because her national review panel report has proved invaluable to this committee. In terms of the child care law reporting project, when the reports come out we learn from them each year. For us it is good to have the evidence which means we understand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child Protection Services: Discussion (4 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Supports have to be made available in the Department of Education and Skills also because we expect teachers to carry out this role. The Department does not necessarily recognise that role. That is something about which we should be ringing alarm bells.

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, to the Chamber and thank him for the calming effect he has obviously had on this House. It allows us to have a constructive important debate on penal reform. I commend and thank Senator Bacik and her colleagues in Labour on giving us this opportunity to have a debate on penal reform. I also join in the welcome by Senator Bacik to the...

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acquired Brain Injuries: Discussion (6 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I too wish to join in welcoming the witnesses here today and thank them for their presentations. I felt quite emotional when they were giving it and I am only listening to the story. I cannot but begin to understand how emotional the family must feel. The story raised many issues for us. However, what I really respect the family for is the fact that they also brought forward suggestions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment: Discussion (6 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank all of the delegates. I did not know anything about this issue until last week when Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin gave us some advance information to help us to prepare for this meeting. I found the presentations very compelling at a medical and personal level. I would like to add two questions to the serious questions asked by Deputy Caoimhghín Ó...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment proposed to the Order of Business, that No. 14, Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014, be taken before No. 1. I proudly co-sponsor the Bill with Senators Averil Power and Fidelma Healy Eames. We have worked hard to strike a balance and ensure there would be safeguards in place, but the vindication of the right to one's identity is at the heart of it. For all...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information Bill) 2014: First Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second it.

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to the House and welcome the opportunity to have this debate. As I told the Minister of State recently when she appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, I am disappointed that we do not have actual figures. Since the monitoring group for A Vision for Change was disbanded in 2012, I have found it difficult...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I also wish to support this amendment to safeguard the title, which is very important. It was only in recent months I learned that one does not need a qualification to use that title. There is a public safety issue involved. In my innocence, I assumed that if a person said he or she was a physical therapist or a physiotherapist, he or she was qualified and had completed the necessary...