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Seanad: Mediation Services: Motion (4 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: She has an outstanding record in this area. The Law Reform Commission report from 2010 contained 108 recommendations. I do not plan to read them all out but when one goes through the recommendations, what is interesting is that many of them have been done or are near completion because the profession itself can develop them and is doing the work in these areas. In this context, for...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 40: In page 12, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:"(2) Inclusion in the Register established under this Section shall not be construed by any Minister of the Government or any public body as extinguishing or limiting or otherwise affecting in a negative manner the entitlement of any person or body so included to apply for or to be considered for any of the...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: What about section 5?

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the clarity that has been given by the Minister. I know the organisations that contacted me will be equally thankful for what the Minister has put on the record. I will withdraw the amendment on that basis.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support amendment No. 35 proposed by Senator Zappone. It seems quite simple and straightforward but is greater because it involves the State sending out a clear signal about public facilities and that it wishes to build a respectful and inclusive society. It would be regrettable that we would ever think somebody had to prove his or her gender in order to use State public facilities....

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank Senators Hayden and Landy for tabling this motion. I also thank my colleagues for the amendments they tabled which allow us to have a wider and richer debate. When I first saw the motion I thought of the 150 families with children in emergency hotel accommodation, the majority of whom have been forced out of the private rental sector by spiralling...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes, I took it that when I spoke I would be seconding it.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I indicated. Either I moved it or seconded it but I did indicate it very clearly.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I indicated when I spoke earlier.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: A campaign being launched nearby this morning is called Stop Out of Control Drinking. I am alarmed by this campaign because it is funded by Diageo, a drinks company. It has many good people associated with it but I did two reports for the European Economic and Social Committee on alcohol-related harm and I saw at first hand how the industry will try to influence, orchestrate and campaign...

Seanad: Appointment of Ombudsman for Children: Motion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support the motion and welcome the appointment of Dr. Niall Muldoon as Ombudsman for Children. I congratulate him and wish him every success. Like others, I take this opportunity to thank and commend Emily Logan, who over her ten-year tenure had to fight to build and protect the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. She built it up and ensured it had a strong role. This is a critical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I submitted question No. 17 on the issue of medical cards for children. Ireland is going to be examined before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in January 2016. The NGOs, including the Children's Rights Alliance, will come before the committee in June, along with the Ombudsman for Children and the Human Rights and Equality Commissioner. Article 24 of the UN Convention on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I kept well within my time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I did not interrupt but I did not get an answer to my question on the percentage of budget ring-fenced for disability services. I would like to note that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: When one talks to people about it, it does not appear to be happening.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have great pleasure in seconding the amendment Senator Zappone has put forward and I agree with everything she has said. The difficulty I had when I read amendment No. 7 proposed by the Government was with regard to what is the basis for the review. Will the review be to the effect that it has granted X number of certificates and this is how it happened? The difficulty is that this is...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“ “child” means a person under the age of 18 years in respect of whom a gender recognition certificate has not been issued;”.On 17 February, on Committee Stage, I elaborated on why I feel so passionately about this issue. It is very troubling for me that the Bill does not provide...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State. First, I thank all of my colleagues who have been supportive of this issue. As I stated to the Minister of State earlier, when I first came to this issue a few years ago I thought of adults and it is was only as I went deeper into the issue I realised how this was a children's rights issue and not only an adults' issue. Obviously, we will discuss the...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I had often heard that the Upper House has better debates, but I did not realise that we are also more enlightened and well-read up here as well. Obviously I am learning all the time. I think Senator Zappone's amendment is very pragmatic and the letter she read out gives me increased comfort. My preference is that we should not be medicalising in any way. I understand the society we live...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.