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- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Senator to stick to the amendments that are before us.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: We note the question. Perhaps the proposers could get back to Senator Norris with clarification.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Senator O'Keeffe should be allowed to speak without interruption, but she should please speak through the Chair.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: He is not present in the House. Senator O'Keeffe might say "It was suggested".
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: On a point of order, can we go back to the substance of the amendment?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I was going to make a similar suggestion. We had an extensive debate in this House about the civil registration legislation. I tabled an amendment in the same spirit as the one Senator Power has tabled to this legislation. The difficulty is where to locate the trigger when a parent chooses not to tell. One needs a birth certificate to get a passport. Once a person has his or her...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I do not support the amendment. We have had a long process of pre-legislative scrutiny to get to this point. The Bill is very much based on children's rights. We are at last providing for a regulated framework, which means that children's rights will be extinguished if we do not bring forward this legislation. That is why I believe the Bill is centred on children's rights, including the...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I want the record to show that because many things have been said on the floor of the House. The Bill is centred on children's rights.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: We might have that discussion on another day. The House did not agree to the grouping of the amendments.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: The House did not agree to the grouping of the amendments.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Senator David Norris has the floor. I assume he is not seconding the amendments.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I was waiting for somebody to do so. I did not know who was going to second it and nobody else had indicated. Is there a seconder?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Will Senator Jim Walsh formally second the amendment?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Will the Senator reserve his right to speak and let Senator David Norris finish?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister to continue, without interruption.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Will the Senator, please, allow the Minister to continue, without interruption?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Will the Senator, please, allow the Minister to reply, without interruption?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: That is not the point. The Senator is continually interrupting.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Does Senator Rónán Mullen with to reply?