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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I agree with the Chairman's concern, but many child care providers have good policies in place on allergies and they are facilitative to children. I am concerned by the comments made by Deputy Mitchell O'Connor but not all providers are affected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Staffing issues in the Ombudsman's office.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will start by referring to the children's future health cross-party group which we launched this morning. I thank Senators and Deputies, across parties, who joined me. They included Senators Ivana Bacik and Marie Moloney and Deputies Clare Daly, Billy Kelleher, Sandra McLellan, Mary Mitchell O'Connor and Thomas Pringle. I thank the Irish Heart Foundation for supporting us in our work...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to share my time with Senator Mary Ann O'Brien. I thank the officials of the Department for the briefing they provided at my request. It was useful to go through some of the issues I have with the Bill. On Committee Stage we can explore in more detail certain aspects of it such as waste management, air quality, paints and solvents, about which I have learned a good deal, motor...

Seanad: Conditions of Work: Motion (8 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I am pleased to support the motion and thank Senator Averil Power for tabling it, as it gives us an opportunity to see where there is consensus and agreement for the betterment of all. I compliment the ICTU on putting forward the charter for fair conditions at work. I have been an employer more often than I have been an employee. I worked in the private sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Legal Highs: Discussion (9 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join other members in thanking Mr. Packie Kelly and Mr. Tim Murphy for their presentation and in thanking Deputy Ó Caoláin for suggesting they appear before the joint committee. On reading this report, this is a new area for all members but as members of the Joint Committees on Health and Children and Justice, Defence and Equality, it is important that this issue be examined and...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: As always, the Minister of State is welcome the House. I thank the Tánaiste for her commitment to the issue of gender recognition and thank the Minister of State for the energetic and robust debates we have had here in the Chamber and outside. I join other Members in welcoming the distinguished guests who have joined us here today, in particular Dr. Lydia Foy and Michael Farrell. As I...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I too echo what Senator Zappone said. In regard to what Senator Brennan has raised, I do not want to get caught up in semantics about whether the Minister brought it to Cabinet. My understanding was that the Minister wrote to the Tánaiste; I would have thought that was courteous, that one would write to the Minister who is leading the Bill asking that Minister to bring the amendments...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to clarify this, as the Minister of State was talking to the Leader of the House when I spoke. I do not want to get involved in semantics but I would have thought that it was the role of the Tánaiste to bring this to Cabinet. I would have thought as a courtesy, as an outsider, that it was appropriate that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, wrote to the Tánaiste rather than him...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: On group 4 on the passport issue, I raised it when I spoke earlier. I welcome all the commitments the Minister of State has given here and I appreciate that we are pressed for time.I am merely fearful that this will preclude that from happening. The Minister of State may not be able to give me an answer today but I want to note it.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we continue for a few minutes?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I call Senator Byrne and ask him to second the motion.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I believe it is 12.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator's time is up.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator's time is up. I have a long list of speakers and I want to include everybody in the debate.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to share my time with Senator James Heffernan at three minutes each.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I have listened very carefully to the debate. Senators across the House are either calling for us to reverse or, at the very least, pause this cut. That is what I am hearing and I hope the Minister of State is hearing similar. When the Government came in, I supported a number of cuts that had to be made because we had to cut our cloth to our...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank the departmental officials who met me last week to go through the many questions I had on the Bill. As I said from the beginning, I do not stand over how Irish Water was set up or the Government's handling of it. However, we are where we are. I try to look at each Bill that comes before us on its merits. Regarding this section, I welcome the...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to the House. I apologise that I was not here when the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, was giving her overview of the legislation. I was attending a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children which was engaging with the Child and Family Agency. While I appreciate the desire to have certain legislation passed through...