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Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 23: In page 16, line 36, to delete "adopted person" and substitute "natural parent".

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 24: In page 17, line 4, to delete "or a" and substitute "and a".

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I have great pleasure in seconding the amendment Senator Zappone has put forward and I agree with everything she has said. The difficulty I had when I read amendment No. 7 proposed by the Government was with regard to what is the basis for the review. Will the review be to the effect that it has granted X number of certificates and this is how it happened? The difficulty is that this is...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“ “child” means a person under the age of 18 years in respect of whom a gender recognition certificate has not been issued;”.On 17 February, on Committee Stage, I elaborated on why I feel so passionately about this issue. It is very troubling for me that the Bill does not provide...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State. First, I thank all of my colleagues who have been supportive of this issue. As I stated to the Minister of State earlier, when I first came to this issue a few years ago I thought of adults and it is was only as I went deeper into the issue I realised how this was a children's rights issue and not only an adults' issue. Obviously, we will discuss the...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I had often heard that the Upper House has better debates, but I did not realise that we are also more enlightened and well-read up here as well. Obviously I am learning all the time. I think Senator Zappone's amendment is very pragmatic and the letter she read out gives me increased comfort. My preference is that we should not be medicalising in any way. I understand the society we live...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State, his officials and the officials from other Departments. It is always good to have engagement between the Stages of legislation and I acknowledge that it occurred. I particularly thank the individuals and organisations that are directly affected and concerned by this Bill. I spoke on Committee Stage about the privilege of being a Senator because one gets a...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Appointment of Ombudsman for Children: Motion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I support the motion and welcome the appointment of Dr. Niall Muldoon as Ombudsman for Children. I congratulate him and wish him every success. Like others, I take this opportunity to thank and commend Emily Logan, who over her ten-year tenure had to fight to build and protect the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. She built it up and ensured it had a strong role. This is a critical...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: A campaign being launched nearby this morning is called Stop Out of Control Drinking. I am alarmed by this campaign because it is funded by Diageo, a drinks company. It has many good people associated with it but I did two reports for the European Economic and Social Committee on alcohol-related harm and I saw at first hand how the industry will try to influence, orchestrate and campaign...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I submitted question No. 17 on the issue of medical cards for children. Ireland is going to be examined before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in January 2016. The NGOs, including the Children's Rights Alliance, will come before the committee in June, along with the Ombudsman for Children and the Human Rights and Equality Commissioner. Article 24 of the UN Convention on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I kept well within my time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I did not interrupt but I did not get an answer to my question on the percentage of budget ring-fenced for disability services. I would like to note that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: When one talks to people about it, it does not appear to be happening.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Yes, I took it that when I spoke I would be seconding it.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I indicated. Either I moved it or seconded it but I did indicate it very clearly.