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Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: At the weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Scouting Ireland delegate conference, which brought together 800 delegates representing 40,000 members. Two motions which were voted on will be of interest to the House. One was on Scouting Ireland's fears the proposed sale of Coillte will threaten its open access policy. Unbeknownst to me until I arrived, another motion had been tabled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes and I just wanted it to be put on the record and clarified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister raised the child deaths reports, which I raised at a committee meeting a few weeks ago. At one of our first meetings, the Minister committed to giving us the reports from the Helen Buckley review group, that is, that we would get them as they came out. We have not got them and I know a message was to be sent to the Minister's Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: We have not got them. We hoped that as a committee we would automatically get them, so perhaps that could be looked at. On youth work funding, I very much welcome the Minister's assurances that there are no plans to transfer the schemes to the City of Dublin VEC. Will she also confirm that there is not a plan for two new schemes for youth work funding to replace the current youth work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: In Athlone, we went to the room where the preschool is provided. It was a very good room provided by Westmeath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: It would be helpful if the Minister would deal with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: As I did not have the opportunity that Deputy Ó Caoláin had earlier this week, I will try to ask all of my questions. I welcome this opportunity to engage with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. I agree with many of her comments. We saw the heads of the adoption legislation prior to the referendum, but it would be good if we could start teasing out some of the issues....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Asylum Support Services (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Perhaps my question was not clear enough. I will take it up again with the Minister for Social Protection. The correspondence between the then Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Equality in 2006 states payments made to asylum seekers were ultra vires the Department of Social Protection. The Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2009 clearly...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Asylum Support Services (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: My question is about the legal status of the payments being made. It is not about the legal status of the policy in place. I appreciate the Minister's response, but it does not address my question.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Asylum Support Services (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: Although I am disappointed that none of the Adjournment matters I have raised in regard to direct provision has been taken by the Minister for Justice and Equality, who has direct responsibility for the matter, I welcome the presence of the Minister for Health. The system of direct provision has been in operation since April 2000. However, concerns have been expressed about the lack of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Chairman is a gentleman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I think it is wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I echo what the previous speaker said and I thank the witnesses very much. I am quite new to this issue of organ donation. I lived in Belgium for approximately three years at the beginning of the 1990s, shortly after its system was introduced, and it was quite a hot topic there. I agreed with it at the time and I still instinctively agree. However, I wish to tease out some issues. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I am disappointed the matter I wished to raise on the Adjournment was not taken as it was lodged before some of the others that were accepted. I welcome the Government's acceptance of the cross-party Private Members' Bill, along with Senator Ivana Bacik, to set aside the Statute of Limitations for the survivors of symphysiotomy. I am aware from the debate in the House last May that many...

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

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

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Job Creation Issues (27 Mar 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I understand that, by agreement, Senator Cullinane's matter is to be taken first.

Seanad: Courts Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House and I thank him for continuing his practice of introducing Bills in this House. The Bill has a twofold purpose. The first is to amend the rules relating to certain proceedings heard otherwise than in public and the second is to increase the monetary amounts the District Court and Circuit Court can award. I will limit my intervention to the first...