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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I concur with Senator Bacik with regard to the timing of legislation and giving considered process. I thank the Leader for moving Report Stage of the International Protection Bill 2015 in the revised agenda. I see that it will be taken next week or later. It is sad to see a series of reports about the Bessborough mother and baby homes by the journalist Conall Ó Fátharta in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank Dr. Shannon. It is always a pleasure to listen to him. He has given us another masterclass and has made points I am sure will be repeated in both Houses as we debate this legislation. It is very welcome to hear the right to identity being highlighted in the way Dr. Shannon has highlighted it. All too often we hear about the right to privacy as if it were a right that trumped all...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: -----and shall, as far as practicable, by its laws protect and vindicate those rights. For me, this is a very specific case. Leading up to the referendum I felt at last we were no longer saying to children to sit and wait in the corner, as it were, because we were going to deal with the adult stuff first, sort our lives out first and make children wait. We were dealing with these problems...

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: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (24 Sep 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 5: In page 37, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“Amendment of Adoption Act 2010 36.Section 89 of the Adoption Act 2010 is amended in subsection (2) to now read "A certificate referred to in subsection (1) must disclose that the person to whom the certificate relates is an adopted person.".".I thank the Minister of State, the Tánaiste and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister and it is great to see him here. There is much talk during Cabinet reshuffles of promotions, demotions or whatever but this is a dream job. The Minister has an opportunity to take a strong step to make Ireland one of the best places in which to be a child, to grow up and to transition into adulthood. There is a saying that third time is a charm and as this is the...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...point for me is Article 8 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the preservation of identity. It states children have a right to an identity, an official record of who they are and that governments should respect their right to a name, a nationality and family ties. Most days we must deal with competing rights and I find myself questioning some of the issues involved. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: We will not go there. It was anticipated that the terms of reference on mother and baby homes would go to Cabinet today with a discussion to be held in the Dáil on Thursday. Can the Leader advise us on the up-to-date position? Many groups, organisations and Senators await the terms of reference. It is critically important that the work is commenced but, equally, it is critical that...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: ...revelations are yet another deplorable stain on our collective conscience. In preparing for my statement, my personal shame as a member of the collective that turned a blind eye to the abuse and suffering of women and children, out of fear and deference to the powerful, is as acute as ever before. It is the same shame I felt reading each of the reports - Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne -...

Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (5 Mar 2014)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move: “That Seanad Éireann – -recognises that childhood, as a time-specific and unique period in a person’s development, is a distinct space from adulthood; -appreciates the difficulties and pressures faced by children and parents as the distinct space between childhood and adulthood becomes increasingly blurred through media, advertising and popular culture;...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and comprehensively outlining for us what is in the Finance Bill. I join others in welcoming measures such as the travel tax and the home renovation incentive but I will spend my time on the matters with which I have issues, which are section 7, obviously, and Part 3 on VAT where other matters could have been addressed but were not and I...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I will not rehearse the discussion we had on section 5 but I endorse it and it is related to this issue. Has the Minister given consideration to providing surrogacy leave? The Equality Authority has advised on this; I refer to the Ms Z case. A teacher with a rare medical condition preventing her from carrying a pregnancy, although she had healthy ovaries, arranged for a surrogate to give...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also give my full support to this motion and thank the Labour Party group and Senators Maloney and O'Keeffe in particular, who have proposed and seconded it. I can wholeheartedly endorse everything they have said. The first point I wish to raise pertains to the Istanbul convention, that is, the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and...