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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Thank you, Chairperson. From my work on family history, I got very excited about digitising the Catholic parish records. I have used the rootsireland.ie site but a link to images was mentioned. We need that extra information but I am not always absolutely sure that it is the person I am looking for, since the information on that site is quite sparse at times. Are the National Archives...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister's commitment to consider the impact of the 100-day requirement if there are negative consequences. I stand in support of Senator Reilly in opposing the section. She has made a very good case about having a commencement order in order to allow a report on the impact of the section to be prepared, and if that happened I would not necessarily oppose the section. Perhaps...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: While I welcome the Minister's explanation, the Commission on Taxation suggested previously that we tax or means-test child benefit. At the time I prepared a paper on behalf of the Children's Rights Alliance to show how unworkable that would be. It took the State four years to arrive at the same position. The Minister gave the example of a couple living in County Donegal, one of whom was...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I spoke on Second Stage to advise that I have great difficulty with section 7 and the principles underlying it. Considering the recommendation before us and speaking to the 100-day provision, it seems to be an arbitrary figure that is unworkable. To preface what I say, the majority of primary carers are mothers and all the organisations working with lone parents, including Treoir,...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and comprehensively outlining for us what is in the Finance Bill. I join others in welcoming measures such as the travel tax and the home renovation incentive but I will spend my time on the matters with which I have issues, which are section 7, obviously, and Part 3 on VAT where other matters could have been addressed but were not and I...

Seanad: Death of Nelson Mandela: Statements (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would like to join in the tributes. As we are more than aware, Nelson Mandela steered South Africa out of apartheid without recourse to widespread bloodshed. That is a testament to the man he was. He was a man with an unwavering ability to forgive in spite of 27 years of arbitrary imprisonment by a minority white separatist regime. He knew true freedom was multifaceted and recognised...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Senator to return to the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask Senators to direct their comments to the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister of State to continue, without interruption.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are on amendment No. 37.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: On the amendment, please.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Senator to speak on the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Again, I ask the Senator to speak on the amendment. I have given him a lot of latitude already.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The amendment is about ability to pay. It is not about the number of taxes we have. It is about ability to pay.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I am trying to be fair to the Senator and have given him a lot of latitude.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator is definitely off the point now. He is not speaking on the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are discussing the ability to pay principle. There is a long list of Senators waiting to contribute to this discussion on ability to pay. I have put Senator Cullinane's name on the list of those who will speak generally on the section but I ask that he now deal specifically with the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: This is Committee Stage of the Bill.

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: That relates to the general section.