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Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to address Dáil Éireann on this Bill, which was published on Monday, 18 September 2023. It is important to remind ourselves that Ireland is entirely supportive of the European Union and its financial institutions playing an important role in the resilience and recovery of Ukraine in line with...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are not talking in terms of figures and profits.

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, that is fine. No problem.

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to address as many of the issues raised by Deputies as I can. I thank Sinn Féin for its support in managing the process of this Bill. I confirm my understanding that it is not legally retrospective as such, as Deputy Connolly said. The EU Council has agreed to give assistance. It allows the European Commission to raise the funds in time to dispense the funds in Ukraine....

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Law Cases (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Durkan for raising this important issue. I convey the apologies of my colleague, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, who cannot be here. I am grateful to have the opportunity to provide clarity on some of the issues raised. I must obviously clarify that the management of the courts, operational matters and logistical functions are the responsibility of the Judiciary and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Law Cases (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will say, very carefully, that I understand this pressure and the issue well as a consequence of my work as a Deputy, but also due to some background work I have done. I would be very careful to describe it in terms of gender or a particular experience, so I will remove myself from that conversation and simply speak to the process. It is intolerable that voice of children is not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Services (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, for the Topical Issue.

Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will stay.

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am very pleased to appear before the Seanad to discuss budget 2024, which was presented to Dáil Éireann earlier today by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. I have copies of the speech. Recent years have seen the Irish economy grapple with a series of economic shocks - Brexit, the pandemic, Russia's invasion of...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will pick up some of the points made directly. Perhaps I will start with housing. I have always worked very constructively with Senator Warfield on a number of different committees and I am glad to hear him speak about the importance of homeownership because, along with people who want to buy their own homes but are living in their parents, it is not something I hear often from Sinn...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Israel has the right to exist.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It does not work like that.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: While it is very important to listen to my colleagues, including the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and other Ministers, outline the spending priorities of today, I will speak about the future, and the future Ireland fund that will be established as part of this budget. It probably generated the fewest headlines but it is one of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 23 to 35 and substitute the following: “3.Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)— (a) in the definition of “officer”, in paragraph (a), by the insertion of “a member of the appellate body referred to in section 37,” after “a member of the board oversight...