Results 121-140 of 1,827 for speaker:Jillian van Turnhout

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I am disappointed but I will not press the amendment. I draw the Minister's attention again, though, to the judgments I have cited, and I ask his officials to examine them because we are in violation. We are not acting in the spirit of the legislation. I take the bona fides of everything the Minister said but I have not had evidence of intrusion by the child care law reporting project. We...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I would have loved this Bill to go further. We had the discussion about changing "may" to "shall". That does not take away from the importance of the Bill, which will now go to the Lower House. I am a big believer that change is incremental. I therefore welcome the passage of the Bill through the House. I received correspondence from the Care Leavers' Network, which highlighted the...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I wish to raise the issue of the MRI scanner for children in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and the associated waiting list for children. The scanner has broken down, and I believe this is not an irregular occurrence. It broke down at least one week ago but no contingency plan is in place to manage the care and assessment of children. My understanding is that there are only two...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State. Obviously, somebody is telling somebody untruths because why would those at Crumlin hospital have telephoned the mother I mentioned on Tuesday and said the machine would be down for two weeks? For me, there are serious questions to answer. I am not questioning the veracity of what the Minister of State said but I am concerned that the truth is not being told....

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I join in the very warm welcome to Senator Máiría Cahill. I had no hesitation in supporting Senator Cahill, given her role on violence against children and women. To that end, I also welcome Maeve Lewis of One in Four and Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, who have joined us here today in the Gallery. I extend a very special welcome to Senator Cahill's...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. While the amendments fall far short of the measures of rent certainty I would like to have seen introduced, for example, rent increases that are in line with an external measurement such as the consumer price index, which has been suggested by Threshold, I welcome them as a much needed and long overdue first step.The latest quarterly...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 29 of Principal Act5. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following new subsection after subsection (4):“(4A) In subsection (5), ‘relevant court documents’, in relation to any proceedings referred to in that subsection-- (a)...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I appreciate this amendment is not necessarily in the Bill’s scope. Accordingly, I will not press it today but will withdraw it to re-examine its formulation for Report Stage. I am cognisant of the right to privacy. Equally, however, I am also cognisant of the importance of public transparency, scrutiny and reporting of what is happening in these cases. Part of that is we actually...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: On section 5, although I appreciate that the amendments I tabled were ruled out of order, they actually get to the very heart of the issues and they also support what Senator Mooney is saying. I wished for the word "may" to be changed to "shall". The whole purpose behind the Bill - the heart of the Bill - is to ensure that the safety net is there every day for children who are aging out by...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: The good thing about speaking at this point in the debate is that many Members have raised the issues I wished to raise. I will, therefore, try to keep my contribution succinct. The Minister of State is very welcome. I commend her and her officials for all the work they have done on the Bill which is so important to so many people for whom we care in our lives and which has the potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: To pick up on Deputy McLellan's last point, it has been great to get the representatives' presentations and they show us the complexity and importance of the issues with which we are dealing in this Bill. I thank each of the representatives for their presentations. We will not cover each of the points raised but that does not mean the committee is not considering them. We will not cover...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: That has changed since 2010. The adoption certificate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: They already had it, but anybody now going for a certificate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Exactly and I agree with Ms Gilmartin on that, it is just that it has changed since then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: I thank the Chairman and I thank all who presented to the committee today. I thought I knew quite a lot about the matter but it is always good to hear different perspectives and to probe how we feel on the different issues. In regard to the legal inputs, it is very welcome to have it on the record of the House and - while it is at variance with the Department's legal people - I think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: While we could contact people, we would need to be sensitive in doing so, given that some people may have put their names on the contact preference register discreetly. We would not send a big pack through people's doors, but I agree that it should be feasible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Jillian van Turnhout: Will it be published?

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

Jillian van Turnhout: I welcome the Minister to the House. This Bill is very welcome and I will work with the Minister to ensure we can get it through the House. We all know an election is coming up and the Bill needs to be passed, but I have certain concerns similar to what Senator Mooney outlined. I would have liked the Bill to go further. For example, it is not a wholesale revision of the now outdated Child...

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

Jillian van Turnhout: It is often up to 16 years of age.