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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendment No. 40 has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the Senator pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the Senator pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: To be specific, the Senator is speaking on amendment No. 43. It seems to be more-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I believe the Senator is speaking to the wrong amendment. We are on amendment No. 43. I am not trying to stifle debate, but the television screen was showing a different amendment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Does Senator Mullen wish to press the amendment?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I commend and support Senator Power's amendments.It is an interesting set of amendments which would provide a framework for the rebuttal of a presumption of guardianship rights. In 1982 and again in 2010 the Law Reform Commission recommended two guiding principles for automatic guardianship - the best interests of the child and that all parents should be treated equally, regardless of gender...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment. I tabled an amendment with the same intent. I feel strongly about this area and I welcome the amendments the Minister introduced on Report Stage, including the new section 97. It was an issue several of us, including Senator Power and I, brought up when we met the Minister in the consultation about the Bill, so I recognise that she was going some way to try to...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 80, 82, 84 to 92, inclusive, and 95 to 121, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 84 to 92, inclusive, and Nos. 95 to 121, inclusive, may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: She does not. Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (31 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I stand in support of the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015. I too was a member of the Constitutional Convention so part of me is disappointed because it made two recommendations, namely, that the voting age be lowered to 16 and that the Presidential term be not...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (31 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: There are many people with HIV, including people who are not gay.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to speak on the child care law reporting project that has produced 30 new case reports today. Carol Coulter and her team are providing an invaluable service to us. One of the issues highlighted in the reports is the lack of specialised mental health services for children so I reiterate my call for a debate on children's mental health services. We are seeing far too many reports...