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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A contract.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In 2007.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a matter of considerable concern at this point. We have now spent ten years on this. The OPW, in fairness, has tried to resist having to progress this, recognising the changing circumstances. There is a private entity that fulfils the function from the perspective of the State. Regarding the scale of the build-out and the fit-out costs, I have never seen a business case. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Adams. I will pick up where Deputy Lawless left. Mr. Adams spoke about those who do not wish to give up power. The next page was all about democracy. The distribution of power over the years has been the outcome of democratic elections, some of which Sinn Féin contested here and some of which it did not. Surely Mr. Adams accepts that it was a democratic outcome and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fair enough. I thank Mr. Adams for coming here. I have watched him since I was a child. He will be aware that I have disagreed profoundly with his interpretation of history and the justification for violence. I come from a different nationalist tradition. However, I also recognise that he was the person who brought an end to violence, whatever about any earlier involvement or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is where we disagree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I think it is fair to say that Mr. Adams is still deeply influential. Does he not agree? He is still deeply influential and his voice carries a lot of weight with Sinn Féin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is hugely important, and I thank Mr. Adams for doing so. I believe, as Irish nationalists, that reconciliation is the Irish imperative first. That is the objective. Mr. Adams talks about reconciliation in his paper. However, the language I, also as an Irish nationalist, picked up from it was Tory Government, unionist death squad, DUP intransigence, and the Irish Government has no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am so glad to hear Mr. Adams say that. Does that mean he would make that statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not miss Mr. Adams saying it. What I repeated was that following that statement, Mr. McConville had his interpretation of that, which he gave in his testimony to this committee 12 months ago. He had also heard those comments by the IRA. He was more specific in his follow up. He would say that is not an answer to his question, and he did say that in this committee 12 months ago. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. What about the equivalence of the tragedies of Edgar Graham and Pat Finucane?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Adams.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor for her comments. I will do everything I can to address all the points she has raised. Where I do not have the information, I will get it and come back to her with more detail. The important point to set out is that Government policy has focused on strengthening the environmental rationale behind all company car taxation. In the 2021 Climate Action Plan -...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know the Deputy's commitment to the climate agenda, having heard her raise it on many occasions in this House. This is about a transition model. Ireland is fully committed to meeting our climate goals and a key part of that involves the decarbonisation of transport and the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. The Deputy was quite right to highlight the announcement by the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for his question and good wishes. I look forward to working with him. He raises an important point in which every Deputy has an interest. Government recognises the concerns felt by individuals, businesses and community groups regarding the cost and availability of insurance, and as such, has prioritised the delivery of targeted, multifaceted reform to this key sector....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the importance of what the Deputy is saying and he is correct in his analysis of reduced awards but it takes time for that to be passed on in every respect to policyholders. There are other positive indications that the substantial reform programme is having a marked effect and the market is responding to it. It has been recently reported that new insurance firms are seeking to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My attitude to all matters in this House is to sit down and discuss them constructively and I am always available to do that. As Minister of State with responsibility for insurance, I am not here to support or provide excess or extra profits to the industry but to make sure a reform programme is delivered across Government that will increase competitiveness, draw new entrants into the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank both Deputies for raising this important question. Deputy Conway-Walsh will be aware I have a strong interest in Mayo, with significant family connections and family businesses there. I have a good understanding of the pressures faced right across Mayo and other parts of rural Ireland. Indeed, her constituency colleague, Deputy Dillon, also raised this with the Minister, Deputy...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I completely appreciate the point made by both Deputies, particularly on auditing. This scheme is devised under a European framework and is also subject to state aid rules so it is not simply me, the Department or a lack of desire. It is constructed under the state aid rules as a particular intervention measure, all of which we must comply with. Therefore, please do not let me go further...