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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Excuse me; I am speaking. Sinn Féin would, in fact, interfere in the decision-making of corporates, as evidenced by its legislation on insurance. Sinn Féin would also maintain a stake in the banks on the off chance that share prices would rise. Of course, it is easy to come into the Chamber and say this and that happened. Share prices are volatile, however. Had the Government...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and criticise one way or the other. The State, as the Deputy knows, has had a long-term strategy to divest precisely for that broader reason of not being involved and to have a hands-off approach from the management. However, we have actually had very good success in reducing the shareholding and making sure we have tried to recover as much for the taxpayer as possible. The Deputy...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I cannot find the piece that I was going to say so perhaps I had best sit down.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy McGuinness and the members of the committee for the invitation to discuss the Report on Banking 2022, which was published ten months ago. I appreciate that it is a wide-ranging report, and I want to address all the points. I also want to address the specific issues that Deputy McGuinness raised. I will try to do both in my time. The first ten recommendations in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Are you going to sue him?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: All deleted now.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for raising this issue and for his consistent advocacy on this matter and other matters around genuine inclusion for people with declared disabilities. As he highlighted, far too many people are not in a position to work because we have not put the correct structures in place. The Senator has been a consistent advocate for making sure there is better and proper...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is the least we can do to walk the walk. I will never forget the Senator's contribution to the Oireachtas event held by Ceann Comhairle on gender, inclusion and a range of different matters. He correctly pointed out that as the only Member of the Oireachtas with a declared disability, nothing had been provided to him in a way that was respectful of his needs. I always bring a copy for...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 23 to 35 and substitute the following: “3.Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)— (a) in the definition of “officer”, in paragraph (a), by the insertion of “a member of the appellate body referred to in section 37,” after “a member of the board oversight...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy English is right in saying that a lot of this is technical in nature. In response to the point raised by Deputy Doherty, the purpose is to allow additional expertise to be placed on the board. As was said, the sector is getting more streamlined and more professional and it is important that boards are able to bring in additional expertise where necessary or appropriate. The broad...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We have no difficulty with working collaboratively on this. I am very happy to deal with any issue of that kind on Report Stage. We did not see it in the same way but we are very happy to go back and look at that again. The whole essence of this Bill is collaboration.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The arrangement being that we will withdraw it and bring it back on Report Stage. Is that what you mean?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 18, to delete “2014;”.” and substitute the following: “2014;”, and (c) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “common bond”: “ ‘common bond’ means a common bond falling within subsection (3) or (7) of section 6;”.”. This...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I cannot do that at this stage because it is a regulatory matter for the Central Bank to set that out. It would be premature for me to do that. As the Deputy knows, we have been working with the Central Bank very collaboratively on every aspect of this legislation but it is for the Central Bank to set down regulations governing the processes. Therefore, I cannot answer the Deputy's...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputies are correct. A memorandum of understanding between the Central Bank, the Department of Finance and the Credit Union Advisory Committee, CUAC, is being drafted. CUAC has a strong role to play in this at all stages. I am aware the International Credit Union Regulators' Network, ICURN, review is under way at the moment and the work by the Central Bank is important in tandem with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 3: 3. In page 6, to delete lines 21 to 25 and substitute the following: “(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (6), a society may be registered” for “A society may be registered”,”.