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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank and congratulate the Minister of State on this far-reaching Bill. Significant work has gone into it. He has managed to go much further in the Bill than we on the justice committee expected when we did our work in this area. I congratulate him on the Bill, which I know has the opportunity to develop further through the various legislative Stages. In particular, I congratulate him...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. This was the first topic I spoke on in the Dáil. I refer to the importance of having assessors trained in coercive control and other coercive behaviours regarding section 47 reports. I also said they should have the capacity to understand manipulation, where it exists. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice has just considered these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I urge the Minister of State in particular to advance the work he is beginning on a joint agency response to crime with regard to young offenders up to the age of 24. There is a necessity to target the 5% of this group of who become persistent offenders. They are an extremely vulnerable group in many ways but there are persistent offenders who slip through the very successful youth...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On 19 January this year, this House stood collectively behind the community of Tullamore and the family of Ashling Murphy following her untimely and violent death at the hands of a man in plain sight of onlookers. The good, decent people of Ireland stood, as we stood inside this House, in every town in Ireland in solidarity, in a massive public demonstration against violence against women....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State for his response, but on 8 March, which is International Women’s Day, there were 744 women available for sex purchase on Internet sites in this State. Somewhere between 15% and 100% of those were trafficked migrants. There remains no refuge in Dún Laoghaire. We have a massive cultural problem with this issue. It is a systemic historical cultural...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if support will be provided for persons (details supplied) who have yet to receive their €400 lump sum payment which was due on 18 November 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61080/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a representation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61148/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a representation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61150/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dormant Accounts Fund (7 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a representation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the steps being taken by her Department to promote and to support the reduction of reoffending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60359/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the number of domestic violence refuge spaces to date in 2022; if she will provide an update on the number of domestic violence refuge spaces made available since government formation to date; if she will provide an update on the work underway to secure a domestic violence refuge in Dún...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has enough PRSI contributions to avail of the PRSI treatment benefit specifically free hearing aids; if there are any other benefits currently available that the person may not be availing of; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60218/22]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will start with the prisons. I do not see anything in regard to education or the schools. Is that because it is dealt with in a different Vote? Is that with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science or is there any measure of that under the Department of Justice?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have had parliamentary question responses which show quite significant variation between prisons in the number of days the schools are open within the prison. I see separately that the Minister of State talks about additional costs because of greater prisoner numbers but also the significant cost of transporting people to and from court, and the effect that has on staffing rosters and the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is a major capital carryover of €3.2 million. Was that expected? Was that under-profile or what is it?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I refer to the capital carryover of €3.2 million in the Prisons Vote. The Minister of State talked about the development of Limerick, which is great. I have visited the new Limerick Women's Prison. It is a positive development. It is a great building, but why was there a €3.2 million carryover when Cloverhill is under so much pressure and there is the opportunity to develop,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Appalling.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Did the Department project that carryover or is that unexpected? Why does the Department have a carryover of that size? Was it that the Department could not expedite other projects or Limerick is behind? What is the reason for that scale of carryover relative to the Department's planning?