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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask Senators to revert to discussing the amendments. Much of this conversation could take place outside the Chamber.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask Senator Healy Eames to confine her remarks to the amendments.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask all Senators to take a deep breath and concentrate on the amendments. The conversation on other matters can continue outside the Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I appreciate the presentation from the witnesses. I am mindful that people are substance misusing. The witnesses referred to the recovered. It is a question of the transition period and the services during that transition period. Professor Barry commented on the homeless wet hostels. I was thinking of that because I have received representations from Dual Diagnosis Ireland about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank all the witnesses. I will focus on three issues: price, availability and promotion. It is interesting to hear divergence in opinion on minimum unit pricing. I will read up more about it and take these views into consideration. We heard compelling evidence from Dr. John Holmes of the University of Sheffield, to whom some of the witnesses referred. Perhaps the committee could put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Did the level of consumption of beer not go up last year by 4%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is part of the social, personal and health education programme.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I concur with Senator Landy on the announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills of the two and a half resource hours for children with Down's syndrome. I question the continuing need for an assessment and I ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reconsider that. Why do we need a child with mild Down's syndrome to go through an assessment procedure? However, it is very...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: We move on to the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 - Second Stage, and No. 2, motion pursuant to section 23 of the Referendum Act 1994 in regard to the proposal to amend the Constitution which is contained in the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015, will be debated in conjunction with Second Stage of the Bill but...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Senator is not allowed to name individuals in the Chamber.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I warmly welcome the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015, which sets out the wording of the amendment that will be put to the people in a referendum on 22 May 2015. If passed, the amendment will allow two people to enter into civil marriage without distinction as to their sex. For me this is a simple question - one of equality, fairness and civil...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: On a point of order, Senator Mullen has grossly misrepresented the quote of Geoffrey Shannon, who clarified at the Joint Committee on Health and Children that he did not say-----

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is. One is not allowed mention somebody's name and misquote them in the House. He spoke about all families being entitled to it.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The Oireachtas Joint Committee and Health and Children------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the delegates for their presentations. As I studied marketing in college, when Dr. Kenny began his presentation, it felt a little like I was back all those years ago. I found his presentation fascinating. When I was preparing a report on alcohol-related harm, I read about a strategy, I think, in California which asked the drinks industry to fund a public health campaign. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support the calls by Senator Bacik for a debate on undocumented migrants in Ireland and on child care, both of which issues deserve the attention of the Seanad. I rise today to raise an issue I have raised in the Seanad on several occasions, namely, the Diageo "Stop Out-of-Control Drinking" campaign. I welcome the additional resignation from that campaign. The first resignation was by...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and her officials to the House. I thank her for the consultation in advance of the debate and the opportunity for pre-legislative hearings on the general scheme of the Bill in committee. My colleague, Senator Katherine Zappone, was very active in the committee on that issue. As a person who has advocated for children's rights for many years and has the privilege of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join others in thanking Dr. Holmes and Dr. Angus for coming here today and for the report we received yesterday afternoon. We have done our quick read, but we have not read it in detail. I will certainly give a lot more time to it. The questions raised by Deputy Ó Caoláin are probably ones we are going to be hearing more of as we go through the legislative process with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: We are discussing illicits.