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Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There have to be fair procedures at every stage. I want to go through some of the engagement that was correctly highlighted with the committee at an earlier stage. The fair procedures have to work both ways. For example, there is the six-year rule highlighted by Senator Black and the look-back in regard to fitness and probity. The reason that is being introduced is that there was a...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputies for the points they raised. I will try to address as many of them as I can. I do not necessarily agree with all the points made but I do see coherent trends among them, including a real and genuine concern around inflation and increasing house prices, and the targeting of supports most effectively. I will try to address all of those concerns. As the Minister for...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is extraordinary that he can laugh away that amount of money.

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is even more interesting------

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry?

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What might be better is if the Deputy came into the House with costed proposals. It might be better if he signalled any interest in those proposals in the Sinn Féin budget document. The word "mortgage" features once in the Sinn Féin mortgage document. Sinn Féin makes no effort to provide for private home owners of any description in its mortgage document or its housing...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and I am responding on the Sinn Féin motion, which is uncosted and would increase house prices, so the Deputy should allow me to finish. The overall fiscal framework has not changed. The cost-of-living crisis remains and, as Deputy Doherty and others know, the Government is well aware of the challenges people are facing. In that context, in the coming weeks, as has been well...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How much will it cost?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh for raising this Topical Issue matter and I apologise for being here on behalf of the Department of Health. By raising this matter, the Deputy gave me the opportunity and impetus to spend more time reading about Dr. Kathleen Lynn. I am glad I had that opportunity to learn more about this extraordinary woman who was a suffragette, a woman of Mayo, after my own...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would certainly love to see the hospital named after a strong, professional, capable woman. That would be wonderful. We have so many things named after men in every walk of life. I do not pretend to be qualified enough or to know enough to be able to assess Dr. Lynn's position in this relative to the other medics who might be in contention. When the hospital is opened I would love to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. This is an issue he has raised many times. I am glad to speak to him about it. When we consider that part of the country, there is a capacity for development, as the Deputy said, and not only because of the IDA site. There is a strategic opportunity for that part of the country having regard to offshore wind, for example, and the transport of turbines from Rosslare...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for outlining the strategic benefits of this project. I work with the IDA in my role as the Minister of State with responsibility for financial services. I have a very strong interest in making sure sites are available and ready throughout the island. The Ireland for finance strategy has a very strong regional focus and it is very important to me that suitable sites are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Durkan for bringing this matter and the condition of the road to the House's attention. The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority in accordance with the Roads Act 1993, as amended. Works on those roads are funded from councils' own resources supplemented by State road grants, where applicable. I am...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Department of Transport has asked me to set out, Kildare County Council is the statutory authority responsible for the Ballagh-to-Timahoe road, as the Deputy will be aware. However, the Department also says that it will advise the council of the Deputy's concerns about the condition of this road, though I suspect that the Deputy has managed to bring those concerns to Kildare County...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter of giving consideration to keeping the Aungier Street campus in public ownership and the lack of public facilities in the area. On the question of the Aungier Street campus, the property is currently fully in the ownership of Technological University, TU, Dublin. Under the terms of the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005, both TU Dublin and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy in every respect. I would highlight the great work done by the north-east inner-city working group which attempted to do much of what the Deputy advocates on the north side of the city. I agree that historically, the Liberties area has not had the same focus and is particularly deprived of playing facilities. I have done a lot of work with Mr. Eddie D'Arcy of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Educational Psychological Service (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for raising this important matter. I am here on behalf of the Department of Education today, but it is an area in which I have a very deep personal interest. I thank the Senator for setting it out so clearly. The Department of Education wanted me to highlight that the role of NEPS has evolved and changed over the years, and the service provides a broad range of supports...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Educational Psychological Service (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. He is correct that early intervention across any stream, whether it is learning or psychological support, can genuinely make a difference, not just to how well children develop in those areas but to their well-being, the management of their anxiety and their mental health at every stage throughout that process and also their inclusion within the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for her questions on this important issue for local authorities and the apprenticeship programme. I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, who cannot be here. As the Senator is aware, a key commitment in the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 is to grow the number of...