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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., improving access to home support is a priority for the Government. Since budget 2021, we have provided approximately €230 million in additional funding for that service. The preliminary data indicates that more than 22 million hours of home support were provided in 2023, which was more than had ever been delivered and exceeded the HSE’s target for the year. While that is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...As reported to this committee last year, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage estimates there are around 2,000 thatched properties in the State. Its report, published last November, indicated that there were 72 fires in thatched properties in the previous five years. The rate of fire is much higher than in conventional properties. As a consequence, many insurers have...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is probably the most significant insurer at the moment has indicated its continued participation in the market. There is support for the report by the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. The fire risk is significant; there is no question about it. To the extent that this risk can be mitigated, a thatched-roof property with radiators is very different from a thatched building with a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., which I set out earlier, clearly sets out that the authorities provide monthly reports on revenues and expenditures of the state budget at the level of the major expenditure headings. I indicated that the MOU stipulates that Ukraine will provide the Commission with all of the information that is relevant for transparent monitoring of its economic and financial situation and for the...

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (23 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the State does not engage and does not get involved in the decision-making or does not get involved in an overreaching sort of way in a general sense in private companies. I know that Sinn Féin indicated in legislation that it would do this in respect of insurance companies. I wonder if Sinn Féin would take that view when its representatives go travelling across the US to tell...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (22 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...by the Department of Finance and the criteria subgroup that the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme should be replaced with a needs-based, grant-aided vehicular adaptation scheme and indicated that the proposal was a clear deliverable on which work could begin in the relatively near future. The NDIS TWG final report also noted in its conclusion that the disabled drivers and...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...contributed towards this package through the trust fund with more than €400 million, which is expected to grow further with future commitments. In July, my Department of Finance colleague, the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, indicated to the EIB his intention to seek approval for Ireland to make a contribution of €7 million towards that trust fund. Should the Oireachtas...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... A cost-benefit analysis of the scheme was undertaken in advance of budget 2023, resulting in an estimated net economic cost for the year reviewed of €78.54 million. Although the cost-benefit analysis indicates a cost to the Exchequer, it must be recognised that the primary purpose of the relief is to contribute to the development, enhancement and promotion of Irish and...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of bilateral issues and will continue to do so. This is fully consistent with the approach at EU level where, in line with international law, all agreements between the State of Israel and the EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and since then. This position was recalled to Israel at the EU-Israel Association...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (4 May 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...were reported as vacant for less than 12 months, and in all but one of the local authority areas, at least 50% of vacant properties were reported as vacant for less than 12 months. Preliminary analysis indicates that levels of vacancy among LPT-liable properties are low across all counties and are considered, counterintuitively, at levels that are consistent with normal turn in a property...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Banking Sector (30 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...approach in respect of any decision that affects their customers. In particular, the protection of mortgage loan borrowers, including those in arrears, is a key priority and the Central Bank has indicated it will continue to supervise compliance by all the regulated entities with the CCMA and the consumer protection code. The code is not voluntary. It is mandatory, and there is no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Levy (7 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...reviewing the rate, the Central Bank carries out an annual assessment of the ICF's financial position, which is issued to the Minister for Finance. The most recent Central Bank audited figures to the end of 2021 indicated that the balance on the loan was €550 million. While this has decreased in the interim, owing to the outstanding amount, the levy is likely to be applied for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (7 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...injuries guidelines were adopted in April 2021. They represent a central plank of the Government’s insurance reform agenda. Recent data from the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, indicate that the overall average award has fallen by 38% compared with awards made in 2020 under the book of quantum. Given the pace of reform, and the many other measures being implemented, it...

Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...is conducted to avoid contravention or a continuation of a contravention by the firm of its obligations under financial services. The common conduct standards is an important part of that. It indicates the behaviours expected of those working in the financial services sector and sets out an illustrative, but non-exhaustive, list of the behaviours in the Bill for clarity. They are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...by the disposal of these assets will then be reinvested in the Grangegorman campus. The property was listed for disposal on the State property register in September 2019 with no interest being indicated by the State sector in retaining the property in public ownership. On that basis, the GDA and TU Dublin have incorporated the disposal of the property into their funding plans for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...importance of what the Deputy is saying and he is correct in his analysis of reduced awards but it takes time for that to be passed on in every respect to policyholders. There are other positive indications that the substantial reform programme is having a marked effect and the market is responding to it. It has been recently reported that new insurance firms are seeking to enter the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...stated earlier that the scheme is due to end at the end of February 2023. There is provision under sections 100 to 102 of the Finance Act to extend it to the end of April and to consider the caps. The Minister indicated that he would look at the operation of TBESS for the first three months, as the Department of Finance and the Government did in respect of other schemes that were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can Mr. Buckley give any indication?

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...security. It is not apparent from a policy perspective that we are having a conversation around security, either in terms of delivery or design considerations. The Garda Síochána Act 2004 indicates that gardaí have jurisdiction as far out as the continental shelf, but we need a policy conversation about how that will work and where security will be vested, whether in the...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., as the Minister did, that that will be different for different people, and I urge the Government, in its communication with survivors, to continue to reflect on what model may best meet those needs, which she has indicated she is doing. My view is that a strong scoping exercise and a strengthening of the impact of the confidential committee within the inquiry model may - I stress "may"...