Results 81-100 of 1,827 for speaker:Jillian van Turnhout
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to speak to amendment No. 203 which proposes to delete section 68(7). Advance health care directives are a welcome addition to the Bill and will provide a way for people to articulate their will and preference for a later date in which their views may become unclear or unknown. This can be useful for treatment decisions relating to end of life situations, mental health crises and age...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I am speaking to amendment No. 203.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: No, I am speaking to amendment No. 203.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: Maybe if Senator Walsh checks against the Bill when I am talking about a section, he will see I am talking about section 68(7). I am speaking to amendment 203. I believe the provision is unfortunate because it is precisely when people are treated under the Mental Health Act 2001 that people will wish an advance health care directive to take effect. The use of differential standards for...
- Seanad: Prisons Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. The practice of detaining children in the adult prison system, namely, St. Patrick's Institution, was contrary to a number of Ireland's international human rights obligations. It was counterproductive as a means of steering children away from future criminality and it represented a poor reflection of the State's policy towards children. Concerns and...
- Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: The Minister is welcome to the Seanad. As she said, this Bill has the single purpose of increasing the maximum number of High Court judges from 35 to 37. The Minister outlined clearly the rationale behind that and I fully support the Bill. The Minister raised the issue of timely and accessible justice. She has been a great supporter of this issue and in September 2015 she announced...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 10:In page 11, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Specific provisions relating to children 3. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), in the application of this Act (or any provision thereof) in relation to a child under the age of 18 years, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect any...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I will be brief. I am extremely disappointed with the answers I have received. I made a considerable number of points on the record which I asked be made known to the departmental officials and the Attorney General. I do not concur with the Minister of State's responses but I accept his undertaking to have my points explored. I thank the departmental officials for their engagement to...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I will be withdrawing my amendment No. 10 with a view to resubmitting it on Report Stage. I do not agree with the guillotine but appreciate that process. While other Senators choose to continually talk about the process, I want to talk about the issues.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: They can be proposed in the Dáil.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I am withdrawing it because I have got a commitment from the Minister that it will be considered in the Dáil and I am working on the wording for it.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I will. We already debated this.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I hope we keep to the grouping list that has been supplied to us, a technical point on which everybody is agreed. I support the renaming of the authorised officer as an international protection officer. While it could be argued that we are getting into semantics, it sends out an important message. I am concerned that amendment No. 3 is not being moved because it contains the definition of...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: It concerns definitions. That is what I am trying to understand.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: It is not being reworded, then. I thank the Minister of State for the clarification.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: The difficulty is that the grouping list we received is different. It may be a small amendment, but it could be substantive.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: No. The Leas-Chathaoirleach has added an additional one-----
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: We can still take it.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: It is not on our list.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)
Jillian van Turnhout: I will wait to see what the Minister of State says.