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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure the implementation of the report of the expert review group on Traveller accommodation prepared by an independent expert group on his behalf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4257/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Transport (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans regarding the implementation of recommendations from the 2018 Oireachtas committee on transport paper, Accessibility of Public Transport for People With Disabilities (details supplied, in particular reference to recommendation 9; her views on this recommendation; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the policy in which entitlement to the domiciliary care allowance, carer’s benefit and carer’s allowance is suspended if a child remains in hospital for longer than thirteen weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the ring-fenced funding of €300,000 announced on 12 November 2020 will be allocated and spent to ensure supports are available for Travellers seeking to progress in higher and further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the citizenship application of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4002/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed breakdown of the vaccine groups will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 754. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of a key worker in the vaccine roll-out plan and their priority in the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3943/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 755. To ask the Minister for Health if clarification will be provided on the definition of a direct patient contact with reference to the vaccine roll-out plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 820. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to prioritise Traveller primary care workers and persons over 65 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4258/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. I will cover two areas. The first is An Post and the postal office network. Obviously An Post has been going through a revitalisation, resurgence and transformation over the past number of years but, of course, that involves closing down some post offices. In my own area, this is because no one was willing to take over the business in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Without breaching the confidentiality of that in terms of the Cabinet, does the Department have any sort of services in mind? Is there anything Mr. Griffin can talk to us about? Obviously, it is a significant network and there is a public-private element to it. When one thinks about the sort of things people come to Deputies about or even queries about driver licences or motor tax, one can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is another element to it as well, namely, the distribution network that can be offered by An Post given the investment in electric vehicles and the connection and knowledge of the country generally - the knowledge of the addresses. Clearly, there has been a major shift in consumption online. We know some of the terms and conditions with which people in that economy work. An Post has a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can I ask another question briefly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have another question relating to the Environmental Protection Agency and its interplay with Irish Water. My area is Dún Laoghaire and we have a significant issue with ground wastewater pollution and its impacts there. We see it especially when there is heavy rainfall. I have been following up with Irish Water. What is the role of the EPA in following up with these ongoing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is very helpful.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Last night I sat still, writing these words and struggling to decide what to say to describe this report of the women who came before me and the rest of us and of the lives they and their children lived. I fought to find the words until my small son came and kissed me goodnight in his pyjamas. I knew then that the only way to approach this trauma of motherhood was to speak in that way. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if plans are in place to compensate the time lost for children in the ECCE scheme due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2131/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to speak again about clarity regarding the vaccines. We have reached the point in this pandemic where people are under stress like never before. At the beginning, we did not know what Covid-19 was and we did not know how bad a virus it was. Now, however, we do know that information. We all now know people who have contracted this virus, who have been seriously ill and who have been...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Having been in my seat, the Minister will appreciate how difficult time and the management of time is for backbenchers. If this situation is as the Minister has said, we still do have a certain amount of information. We can provide information to people on the basis of the information we do have. I prefaced my remarks by recognising that we would get more vaccines and not less, that we...