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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask that to tease out the issue between the role of the prison visiting committees vis-à-visthe other structures and how that could and should work. I visited Cloverhill with Ms Ryan a little while ago and I visited Limerick, though without the prison visiting committee. On the communication between the governor, the people who are in prison and the staff, some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to bring in the IPRT and Dr. Garrihy. I want to reconcile this point because it is obvious we have been left with some space in the Bill. The heads even reference that there is a review going on, so it is clearly an open question for the Department. We might as well have the conversation now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. We can take the appointments piece as agreed, essentially because that is dealt within the Bill and because we know where that is going. It is a matter of what it does, of independence and of interaction. I agree with Ms Brady's distillation of the points. Does Dr. Garrihy have a view?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (27 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total budget allocated in 2021 to the funding of staff roles at the 31 local enterprise offices that are operated in a partnership between Enterprise Ireland and the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (27 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work that is taking place in his Department to encourage and support small and medium businesses to remain open, given the current difficulties with the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (27 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 95. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will detail some of the successes of the social inclusion and community activation programme since its creation; the impact that the funding increase to €46 million in Budget 2023 will have; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the work that her Department has undertaken to ensure greater connectivity between rural and urban communities in terms of local community groups and connected hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53101/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I admire their work in totally different ways. I am delighted to see them here. Ms Joyce and I previously saw each other at the parliamentary forum. We were speaking again at yesterday's meeting of the Joint Committee on Justice regarding places of detention. Deputy Bacik and I co-chair the penal reform group within the Oireachtas. I was struck by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Not at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I totally agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I completely agree. I came out of Limerick and went to straight to a journalist to try to highlight those figures. It has been published in the Limerick Post. I also raised them in the Dáil with the Taoiseach. I did it for exactly that reason. I completely agree with Ms Joyce. Apologies for cutting across the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If anyone understands that, it might be us. We know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As we see more and more women in different positions, I feel it should not be their responsibility to be in their job and to also be responsible for everything to do with women. There must be a point at which it is simply acceptable to just do the job without discussing why they are doing it or the fact that they are doing it while being a woman or anything else. Just be "the politician"...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Ahern for coming in. We are very pleased to have him in and I thank him for the work he did. A normal amount of spats is the normal type of politics Mr. Ahern and others were aiming to achieve in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, instead of what was there. He has said clearly the primary goal for him and for the British Government was stopping the violence in the first instance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am really interested in the piece between public law and private law. I hear clearly what was said about a public model that does not depend on maintenance being paid. We have discussed before the difficulty with enforcement. The witnesses' baseline is that they would like an ideal scenario in which money is transferred by whatever means. I accept what has been said about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Like the fund the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland, MIBI, has but for maintenance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is something there. However, the difficulty, of course, in creating more and more sanctions is that it uses more and more court time, whereas one could remedy that at the outset. Let us say that a court makes an order that a person will pay €200 a week for the next ten years or whatever happens or until I say differently, Revenue is then notified and it is just managed in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Where is the limit of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Are solicitors looking for that?