Results 141-160 of 1,827 for speaker:Jillian van Turnhout

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 1:In page 6, after line 29, to insert the following: "Removal of court exemption to impediment on ground of age 7.(1) In this section "Act of 1995" means the Family Law Act 1995. (2) The Act of 1995 is amended by- (a) the deletion of section 31(1)(b), and (b) the deletion of section 33. (3) Section 2 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 is amended by the substitution...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: One is either a child or not.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: To be absolutely clear, I talked to a number of religious, cultural and ethnic groups and they support what I propose here. The reality is that this happens in private in the Circuit Court and the child has no representation. We do not allow children to make other contracts but we will allow them to make a contract of marriage. That is wrong. We cannot lecture other countries and say we...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank Dr. Fergus Ryan who helped me to draft the amendment. I also thank the Minister for what she has said and I am very appreciative of it. As I explained to her outside the Chamber, I knew that this was not the perfect Bill in which to do this. I agree with her about the scope of the Bill and support her on that. I wanted to give another airing to the issue, given the limited time I...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I ask the Senator to speak to the amendment.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I think the Senator is going outside the scope of the amendment.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I believe you are.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I call Senator Zappone and ask her to stick to the amendment.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Stick to the amendment.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Can we stick to the amendment? We are on Committee Stage. The Minister may reply, if she wishes.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Sorry, Senator Walsh.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Senator Mullen. I gave the Senator some latitude. Does the Minister wish to comment? No.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I genuinely did not-----

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I did not hear it. I apologise. I did not hear it.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I respect the Senator’s right to put that on the record. I genuinely did not hear it.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Understandably I have a long list of speakers. I will try to accommodate as many as possible but I remind Senators that this is not Second Stage.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I, too, welcome to the Visitors' Gallery our colleagues Deputies Jerry Buttimer, John Lyons, Derek Keating and Helen McEntee and the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar. They are more than welcome on this historic occasion.