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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support the workers of Dunnes Stores. When reading the details of their existing conditions, it is extremely difficult to support any other side. Normally I can see the two sides of an argument, but in this case the Dunnes Stores workers seem to have been treated appallingly. I hope the people will stand with them in seeking appropriate working terms and conditions. Yesterday morning on...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015: Motion (2 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: No. 2 is a motion regarding the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015. No. 3 is a motion regarding the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Exempted Public Bodies) Order 2015. The motions can be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed. Members should note that only group spokespersons will be called.

Seanad: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015: Motion (2 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is group spokespersons-----

Seanad: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015: Motion (2 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is appreciated. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Exempted Public Bodies) Order 2015: Motion (2 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: When it is proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister of State is welcome, as always, to the House. I will support the Bill today but I will look at amendments that are put forward on Committee Stage. I would prefer if we could go further with payments and restore them to the fullest extent. We shall debate a motion later in this House and, therefore, I shall mainly deal with my issues regarding lone parents later on. However,...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Supports: Motion (15 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Tánaiste. It is with pride that I second the motion. The result of inadequate income for many one-parent families is food poverty, fuel poverty, over-indebtedness, difficulty with education-related costs, cutting out extra-curricular activities and children's hobbies, living in poor quality housing, risk of homelessness, and homelessness. The latest SILC data for 2013...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the deputation for the presentations. Professor McCarron has reiterated the importance of having this study and of having the data. We can see the richness of our understanding. I hope we will evolve as we appreciate and understand more about what the data are telling us. It speaks to what many of us felt in our guts but we did not have the evidence to actually demonstrate it. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister is very welcome to the committee. I have written two European papers on alcohol-related harm. I was asked to do one of them by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It gave me an opportunity to present to the then Minister, whom I could not meet in my role at the time as chief executive of the Children's Rights Alliance. I am delighted this is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I do not even look at it. It is in the boot. I am concerned about Drink Aware advertising for an education programme manager to visit our schools. It is an issue for the Department of Education and Skills, but it is also an issue for the Department of Health, which is helping with the SPHE programme. The HSE has done good work in this regard. Drink Aware and the drinks industry have no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Nobody has a figure for it. Neither the alcohol companies nor the sporting organisation will give us a figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Alcohol Consumption: BT Young Scientist Winners (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I too welcome Ian and Eimear here today. I want to say “Wow!” but I am not sure whether that is for winning the Young Scientist of the Year Award or for their presentation today. Both deserve huge congratulations. All too often, when people talk about alcohol and young people they think about young people’s consumption, but the witnesses have turned the issue on its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Alcohol Consumption: BT Young Scientist Winners (23 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: That is excellent. There is a question of normalising alcohol consumption and making it socially acceptable, which is very important and comes across in the study. We on the committee feel very strongly about the legislation. I did not think I could feel more strongly, but this presentation shows me as a legislator why we need to do more and to bring the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the HSE's statement last Thursday evening on the new alcohol policy it is drawing up. It is looking to ensure there will be no links between the alcohol industry and any HSE funding or policies or any of the organisations it funds. This vindicates the position I have taken, and I hope the Department of Education and Skills and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, will consider...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: On a point of order, I am not wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland produced a report on the mental health of young people in Ireland. It found that by the age of 13 years, one in three young people in Ireland is likely to have experienced some type of mental disorder; by the age of 24 years, that rate will have increased to one in two. Significant numbers of young people are...

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I concur with Senators Mac Conghail and Zappone. I am not yet convinced about universal suffrage and I need to be more convinced about it. On the one hand we are told we are to be the voice of community groups but on the other hand we are to be elected by different people. Given my work in children's rights I used my appointment to the Seanad to reach out to many community and voluntary...

Seanad: Appointment of Receivers: Motion (6 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I cannot encourage them to do so.