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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2016)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...is very difficult when we put people in certain positions and we would not have the same expectation when dealing with adult issues. I know the closing date for the board is tomorrow and I am not applying or anything but we should be attracting the best people and the fees should be commensurate with the service they are giving to the State.

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...reality for all of us in full health is that the system is very legalistic; as it can be intimidating, people need support, particularly children who are unaccompanied and seeking guidance on how to pass through the system and for what they need to apply. We need to ensure the material is in a language they can understand in order that they can appreciate the ramifications of the...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (21 Jan 2016)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 39:In page 26, to delete lines 12 to 14 and substitute the following:"(17)(a) This section and section 19B do not apply where a complainant or witness has expressly waived his or her right to non-disclosure of a relevant record without leave of the court. (b) No complainant or witness shall be deemed to have expressly waived his or her right to non-disclosure unless he...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...), and where the relevant person’s will and preferences are not known, the decision shall be guided by the individual’s best interpretation of the relevant person’s will or preferences and how these are to be applied to a specific decision(s). (3) In applying subsection (2), decision-making assistants, co-decision-makers and persons selected to represent the relevant...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...Law of Treaties states, "A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose." Given that international treaties usually apply to multiple countries in many different languages and legal traditions, an excessively literal approach is often unhelpful. By...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...Wheatfield Prison. We have not ended the detention of children in the prison system. We should be conscious of that. A separate issue I raised with the Minister for Justice and Equality and which also applies to the Minister is the need to get the daily occupancy and capacity figures within Oberstown. The reason I can give the Minister the Wheatfield figures is that the prison...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...health crises and age related disability. A coalition of organisations in the fields of mental health, disability and older people have consistently called for advance health care directives to apply equally in the general health and mental health contexts. Too often mental health issues are seen as separate and different, and the same rights and protections are not extended to mental...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...to deal with this in a variety of ways. For example, in the Children and Family Relationships Act, the Legislature chose to define what the best interests are, as I cited earlier. There is a test that the courts must apply when making a decision "in the best interests of children". According to the special rapporteur on child protection, the Children and Family Relationships Act...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will explain the difficulty for me. We are discussing what is termed "he best interests of the child". I have tabled amendment No. 10 because that phrase does not apply throughout the Bill. It is limited to sections 52 to 56 of this legislation. It should permeate the Bill. That is the reason for my amendment No. 10, which I will discuss when we reach it. I concur with Senator Bacik...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...report and does not need to hear evidence, and then makes the order sought. Without sight of the report, the child care law reporting project has no way of knowing the basis for the order - how the threshold outlined in the Act has been applied - and therefore cannot report on this or fulfil its statutory remit "to provide information which will assist in the better operation of this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Equipment (17 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...is mind-boggling - I would get on a plane and get the part. They were advised that the new appointment would most likely be in early 2016. Thankfully, because of the pressure the child's mother applied and, I imagine, the debate we are having here today, she received a call yesterday to say the child would have an appointment early next week. I am thinking of all the other parents out...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: ...) of subsection (2)- "(c) one or both of the parties to the intended marriage will be under the age of 18 years on the date of solemnisation of the intended marriage,". (4) This section shall not apply to a marriage in respect of which, prior to the enactment of this section, a court has made an order under section 33 of the Act of 1995.". My amendment seeks to abolish the possibility...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...and child poverty. The Comptroller and Auditor General raised the issue of the school meals programme in his report yesterday, in that some schools have inflated numbers. I welcome his call for a re-examination of the programme. One applies to the Department of Social Protection for funding, yet the Departments of Education and Skills, Children and Youth Affairs, Health and Agriculture,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...based on my knowledge of that area. I notice that within Mr. Cullen's processes, he said that the supply chain management team was prohibited from receiving gratuities and favours. Does that apply to all staff of the Beacon Hospital? Does the hospital have a policy of declaring gifts above a certain amount? How does it deal with this? Of course, there are certain exchanges, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...professionals. What Ms Quinn stated about bringing continuing professional development, CPD, days into the mix would be quite a useful way to proceed. The situation here is similar to that which applies when one is playing the game Buckaroo. We are piling so many things on top each of each other and everyone is just waiting for the whole thing to fall. The committee is very conscious...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (28 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: .... It is very important that the child's voice is heard, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that there be due process, and that the principles of natural justice are applied. I urge the Minister to ensure, in making the regulations, that the information given to the child is in language appropriate to his or her age and understanding. That should be...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...UK the dubious honour of charging the highest legal costs in Europe. The Bill purports to deliver a new and enhanced legal costs regime that will bring greater transparency to legal costs and will apply to both barristers and solicitors. The high legal costs regime in Ireland is caused by severe restrictions on access to lawyers. There are hundreds of barristers who are available and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (12 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...and Skills and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. It is obvious that those responsible for drinkaware.iewant it to become embedded within the education system. I know someone who applied for the position of education programme manager but whose application was unsuccessful. The person in question was informed about the rolemodels.iecampaign, which is going to lead to...

Seanad: Europe Day and European Commission Work Programme: Statements (7 May 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...ramifications for us, mostly negative. The lack of an EU immigration policy is an issue. We can say what we want about the United States, US, but it has very clear immigration rules and one can apply to go there. The EU cannot get its head around it. In certain member states there is rising sentiment, stimulated by the lack of EU leadership on the issue. We think that if we just put...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...not be construed by any Minister of the Government or any public body as extinguishing or limiting or otherwise affecting in a negative manner the entitlement of any person or body so included to apply for or to be considered for any of the matters referred to in section 5(9)(c).".I have been in communication with the Minister since Second Stage in relation to this amendment, about which I...