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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank Dr. Shannon. His reports are always comprehensive and valuable. If I get any gaps in my time, his work is something I go to because he has given us so much material that we as legislators should work on. I congratulate him on being appointed founding patron of the Children's Rights Alliance. I may be slightly biased in saying that it is an outstanding organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Dr. Shannon's appointment is well deserved and the alliance has made a superb choice. My first question is more general. I received a commitment last year from the former Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, that the Government would look at Dr. Shannon's different reports - I feel sometimes he is reporting on an issue again and again - and look to carry out some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I know but I have the special rapporteur in front of me and given the forthcoming legislation on children and families, I would like to make sure that I understand what was meant by that comment because I believe it has been repeatedly misrepresented. My final point relates to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Ireland will be before this committee within the next 12 months....

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. I welcome the changes he announced regarding the definition of women and the inclusion of sampling of county homes by the commission. The existence of mother and baby homes is a stain on Ireland's social conscience. It is a shame we carry individually and as members of the collective that turned a blind eye to the abuse and suffering of women and...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I question how we can have a motion before the House when it has not completed its passage through the Dáil. What would happen if we were to amend the motion? It is a motion that is going through both Houses and I do not understand how we can take it now. I ask for clarity on the matter.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Okay. Therefore, the motions can be different.

Seanad: Direct Provision: Statements (22 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I agree with the Minister of State.

Seanad: Direct Provision: Statements (22 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I hope the Minister of State has a little bit of latitude given the lack of Members in the House. We are approaching the 15th anniversary of the system of direct provision, a system that places asylum seekers apart and away from the community in conditions described by some as warehousing and others, who have made their way out, as open prisons. Therefore, it is not an anniversary that any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Commissioner to Ireland and thank him for today's presentation. The committee would endorse many of the proposals put forward. I wish to raise the issue of childhood obesity, which was highlighted in the presentation. Children today will form the first generation whose life expectancy may be less than that of their parents because of childhood obesity. It is a strong...

Seanad: Improving the Quality of Early Years Education: Statements (21 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the Seanad. She is particularly welcome as she is dealing with the issue of early years education. I know her personal commitment to and experience of the issue. The steps she made in the early days in terms of examining the early years and setting up the work she will do in this area are welcome. We have had many excellent debates in this House on the importance...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I very much welcome the Bill but note that Ireland has lagged behind. There are issues that concern me. Subject to the time limitations in this Second Stage debate, I will confine my intervention to three main areas of concern to me, arising out of this Bill. I say "of concern to me," but that is not strictly true; my life will not be directly impacted by the legislation we will bring...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Leader the procedure for withdrawing a motion from the Order Paper, because I am delighted that just before Christmas, at the eleventh hour, the Government stepped in to support the Childline motion that was put forward by my colleague Senator Bacik and myself but supported right across the House. I thank all my Seanad colleagues. This is, yet again, an example of how the Seanad...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and note their recommendations. I do not want to go through each of the points but there are three specific areas I would like to raise. My understanding of coeliac condition would be mainly from my involvement as a volunteer with the Girl Guides in organising events. Dietary requirements come up and we have many discussions on the issue. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I would like to know about screening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for the submissions they made in advance of the presentations. I know a family friend who has Huntington's disease. The case studies provided touched on the point raised by Dr. Pender, the fact that one rarely hears about fund-raising or awareness raising outside of the circles where Huntington's disease is present. Therefore, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Perhaps everyone knows the answer to my first question, but I could not find it. Nine hours has been mentioned as the length of time over which someone in an emergency department should not remain on a trolley. From where does this figure come? In preparing for this meeting, I read the HSE's June 2012 report on the national emergency medicine...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister and welcome him to the House. I have read the Bill carefully and listened to the Minister's open and constructive speech. Since my appointment to the Seanad in May 2011, I have taken my role as a legislator very seriously and voted with my conscience on an issue by issue basis. As I prepared for this debate, the Irish proverb, "I wouldn't start from here", sprang to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: It is wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank our guests for raising this critical issue with the committee and Senator John Crown for ensuring it was included in our agenda. I agree with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin that our guests' presentations were very clear and that they should be forwarded, unedited, to the Minister and his Department. I become very concerned when people refer to Groupon offers and patient...