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Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am here.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Last week, the Taoiseach, utterly correctly, gave the support of the Government and this House to an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, a lawyer murdered in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s, as did a Seanad motion, the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, and the Alliance Party, as an absolute imperative for the rule of law....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the work being done by Tusla to process certificates of eligibility for adoption applications and administer necessary training specifically the application made by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42245/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What the Minister of State said is very welcome and it is appropriate to wait for the EMA sign-off. I believe in people's minds that has already happened and they are planning when access to the vaccine might happen for them. In that sense what I am saying about the how and the when becomes important. There may be ways in which we can use the technology we have, such as the Covid tracker...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is satisfying to raise an issue that the Cabinet has addressed at least in part today, with the publication of who is going to get the Covid vaccine and the logic and the sequence of how that is going to happen. People are going to be understandably impatient and they are going to want as much information as possible. How and when they are going to get it will be crucial if we want to...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister, and Deputy O’Reilly also for introducing this very important piece of legislation and its contribution to the debate that we are having again and again about domestic violence and how we try to approach and stop it. It is obvious and clear that victims need to be given the time to assess their situation and to determine a plan in their own best interests and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State. That is so welcome. One of the challenges for small businesses is that they have been able to take some of their own steps where there has not been a language barrier but the United Kingdom leaving the European Union makes it much more difficult. Indeed, the agencies are very supportive. I suppose some of the smaller businesses feel that there is this...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and associated agencies have adapted to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic to develop new markets for Irish food and drink producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41513/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How have the Department and its associated agencies adapted to the challenge of Covid-19 to try to continue to develop new markets for Irish food and drink producers?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I congratulate the Minister of State on that work. Agrifood is a very significant part of our export economy and our national economy. It has developed and it is great to see the momentum. It is clear from the Department and from listening to the Minister's and the Minister of State's responses today how much emphasis there is for dairy and beef, which is appropriate, but I might also flag...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Tairgim: “Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú.” I move: “That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution.” I am pleased to introduce this Bill today and I thank the House for the opportunity to do so. This is a Bill to provide for the possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bioeconomy Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work of his Department to promote the role of a circular bioeconomy to turn biowaste, residues and discards into valuable resources and incentivise the reduction of food waste along the value chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a personal public service number, PPSN, by a person (details supplied); when it is expected the application will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the availability of paediatric rheumatologists here with the current waiting list being three years; if his attention has been further drawn to the particular concern for children with Down syndrome associated arthritis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41854/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: General Practitioner Services (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if an information leaflet on paediatric arthritis prepared in November 2019 will be distributed to general practitioners and health professionals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 694. To ask the Minister for Health when a new paediatric rheumatologist will commence; the location in which they will be based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41856/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 695. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a drug being assessed for reimbursement (details supplied) by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41857/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Youth Unemployment (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures under way in her Department to tackle youth unemployment and to support young persons affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39999/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the establishment of the Commission on Pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39998/20]