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Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have noted the Senator's point. It will be in the Official Report.

Seanad: Charities Sector: Statements (4 Feb 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I hope not to use all my time. I agree with what my colleagues have said, so I will not repeat, in particular, what my colleague, Senator Mary Ann O'Brien, has said. It is important to instill confidence and trust and also that there is ease of access to information. Senator Feargal Quinn gave us some examples from the US. I wish to pick up a point raised by Senator Mary Ann O'Brien in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have a question about young people's access to cigarettes. Are the witnesses reaffirming to the committee that access to cigarettes is not a difficulty for a young person going into a shop? Are they going directly to the shop or are adults buying the cigarettes for them, in the witnesses' experience?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join in welcoming the witnesses. I fully support the proposed legislation and we are just working to see how we can strengthen it and ensure the tobacco industry cannot hinder us in our important work. Mr. Gilligan has commented on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is very important, as this is a children's rights issue and should be framed as such. Ms O'Sullivan...

Seanad: Youth Justice Policy: Statements (28 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have a good deal to say but I will try to contain myself. I welcome the Minister, who has laid down a comprehensive statement on youth policy, which she had hoped to do in December. It is great that this is all together and that the Minister used the House to do this. The Minister mentioned that we are improving our data, but I remain concerned at the lack of data in the area, a point to...

Seanad: Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (23 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Senator Conway without interruption.

Seanad: Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (23 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: Without interruption, please.

Seanad: Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (23 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator has gone well over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Garda, the Revenue Commissioners and the HSE representatives for their presentations. The message I will take from the presentation by the Garda representatives is that the Garda, the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, and many others believe there is no evidence to indicate that the introduction of plain packaging will lead to an increase in the illicit trade of tobacco products....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Section 39 Organisations: Motion (23 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move: That the Joint Committee on Health and Children make contact with each of the section 39 organisations to invite them:(1) to outline the funding model and breakdown of different sources of funding; (2) to outline the remuneration received by all executive staff and the funding source from which such remuneration is derived in terms of public, private or fund raising sources or the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I would also like to welcome the Bill that is before us. Before I became a Senator, I did not really have an appreciation or understanding of this problem. Nobody in my family is deaf or hard of hearing. I am on a journey as I try to understand and appreciate this issue. I am cognisant that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will get back to Mr. Mulvany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: In the nursing homes, where that policy is in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: The witnesses are very welcome. I fully endorse everything the Minister said about a tobacco-free Ireland and the Healthy Ireland initiative. I welcome the update from the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, on mental health but regarding the child and adolescent mental health services, social workers have repeatedly told me about their difficulty of engaging and I am fearful that because they...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I, too, wish everyone a happy new year. I warmly welcome the establishment of the Child and Family Agency and was surprised to learn this morning that it was to be branded with the new name Tusla, which apparently is a completely new word reflecting a shared desire for a new beginning and forging a new identity. I wonder why we cannot call things what they are. Why must we make up a word...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I want to return to the issue of the Child and Family Agency and the deficit. The reason I may have looked puzzled when the Minister was replying to the question was that we sat in this room on 19 December with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and I specifically asked her to confirm the agency would not be burdened with a deficit from the start. She said: "The 2014 allocation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: None of that will be transferred. That is not what I heard earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I may have to probe this further on Thursday, because I am a little confused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the witnesses and the news on bilateral cochlear implants, both sequential and simultaneous. Like Deputy Ó Caoláin, I hope it will continue and upscale in 2015 to meet all the demand because it is a set, limited group of children. This committee has had a series of hearings on end-of-life care. It is laid out here in the service plan but we do not know what the budget...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I know, but the budget for the Child and Family Agency is in the service plan. I am being very careful. I want to clarify it because people are saying a deficit will be transferred and I want to be clear.