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Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I thank my Labour Party colleagues for tabling the motion. It is great that there is harmony in the House as everyone welcomes the initiatives and strategies to deal with mental capacity legislation, dementia, Alzheimer's and positive ageing. I would like to move beyond words and explore ways we can make the issues before us tangible. We can all say these words but...

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister. I thank my Labour Party colleagues for tabling the motion. It is great that there is harmony in the House as everyone welcomes the initiatives and strategies to deal with mental capacity legislation, dementia, Alzheimer's and positive ageing. I would like to move beyond words and explore ways we can make the issues before us tangible. We can all say these words but...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. We are all very acutely aware of the facts and reminded on a daily basis of the serious financial difficulty we have and the shortfall of ¤16 billion. There are also requirements under the terms of the EU-IMF bailout agreement to reduce our borrowing for 2013 by ¤3.5 billion. The Minister's Department has a budget of ¤20.5 billion, accounting for 40%...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister's plans for the literacy and numeracy strategy. I remember working on the National Economic and Social Forum report on this subject. I was alarmed at the figures, with one in ten children leaving school with literacy issues and rising to one in four children in disadvantaged areas. Someone tried to tell me it was okay because other European countries had higher...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: This was the message parents were getting from schools. I do not refer to all teachers. We read all the reports and talk about everyone working together in the community and how education is not just the preserve of schools. It is important that, when examining plans, we should try to involve the community. We have outstanding teachers working with communities but there is also an...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Before I welcome the Minister, I would like to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Professor Sir James Mirrlees, from Cambridge, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996. He is very welcome. I understand he will be speaking in the AV room at noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: That would be positive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is that if a report is made to the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will ask a number of supplementary questions before briefly discussing the forthcoming referendum. I asked a question on extending the remit of the Ombudsman for Children. The report on St. Patrick's Institution is timely. I welcome the statement from the Minister that she is looking favourably at the Ombudsman for Children's request to extend...

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: It has been agreed. We have just had a vote and the question was carried. Do you wish to comment now that the Bill has passed?

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Acceptance of the amendment will involve the deletion of section 18.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: The amendment has already been discussed with amendment No. 2. I note that if the amendment is agreed, then amendment No. 34 cannot be moved.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Please stick to the topic.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Please keep within the scope of the Bill.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Amendments Nos. 25 to 28, inclusive, and amendment No. 36 are related and may be discussed together.

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we keep within the scope of the Bill, please?

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we can keep within the scope of the Bill, please? I am conscious of the need to keep within the timeframe indicated.

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption: Statements (17 Oct 2012)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will try to be succinct. I have five specific questions to ask the Minister of State but first I wish to comment briefly on the issue. I am speaking as a Senator, as a children's rights activist and as a proud Irish citizen. My first concern relates to the social and cultural acceptability of our excessive alcohol usage. It disturbs me how frequently and casually excessive drinking and...