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- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I made the same point.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not. I explicitly said-----
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I listened to the debate-----
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the question?
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does the Deputy mean by that?
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What I am saying is that the overwhelming majority of contributions to this debate focused on Gaza. That is really important; all I am saying is there should be balance on both sides, as I said about the Council also. I already addressed Deputy Harkin's point. I counted the number of contributions. I am also looking for this balance. On the Irish position, we have actively divested...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. This is what we are trying to do all the time, which is to work within a European structure. We are one of 27. Ireland has 14 MEPs out of 720. We advocate as strongly as we can but we must not overstate our position or relevance either. If we are one of a club we have to respect that we are one of a club and that we work within a consensus environment. This is what...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Members for their contributions. The other issues that were on the extensive agenda of the European Council meeting on 27 June were the internal reform agenda, Georgia, Moldova, the EU's strategy for the Black Sea region and its response to hybrid threats. On migration, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, provided leaders with a written update of...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is my point. This must also be the question for Europe. The General Affairs Council has looked at how we deal with existing members. We have the Article 7 procedure with Hungary, for example. As politics moves to the right and towards a more fascist agenda across Europe, we must look at how we deal with existing member states. I represented Ireland in the Article 7 hearings on...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Conway for raising this important issue. I was struck by the total decency, generosity, kindness and humanity he has shown in advancing his Commencement matter on this issue and the way in which he has done it by respecting the lives, experiences and difficulties encountered by the people who have come here from Ukraine and developed good relationships here and the overall...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for again providing me with the opportunity to listen and understand the concerns he is raising regarding the balance in County Clare. I generally think the county-by-county strategy is where we need to get to, insofar as advancing the Minister's thinking in this regard already. Of course, there is a need to rationalise and manage contracts in cases where some providers...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I ask the Senator to forgive me. I had the date of 24 June. I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Garvey for giving me this opportunity on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, to update the Seanad in relation to the planning guidelines that will supplement the short-term letting legislation. In line with the specific action in the Government's Housing for All plan, to develop new regulatory controls requiring short-term and holiday lets to register with Fáilte...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I believe the Senator is asking me for the substance of the guidelines, which I do not have.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The timeline is that a draft will be published on the publication of the Bill. It will be published alongside the publication of the Bill, as I noted there in the answer. That will be in order that Members of the Oireachtas and stakeholders can have sight of what is envisaged. I think the Senator is asking me to confirm exemptions or the status of exemptions in an answer, which I cannot...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator. I am glad he raised the issue. It is unfortunate he should have to raise it here. However, as a Member of the Seanad, he is entirely entitled to raise matters on behalf of the community in which he lives, particularly something as concerning as a boil-water notice that has lasted 14 days. I note he said he had difficulties in terms of communication. I understand the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could not agree more. The people in the Senator's community will understand that things go wrong and that it is completely reasonable in any walk of life or in any part of the State services that problems will occur and will have to be fixed. However, how State services respond to problems matters as much as anything else. The lack of communication with people is evident because the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage but I also appear as a constituency TD. I am well aware of the issue of mould, particularly for HAP tenants in the private rental sector. Before coming to the House, such is the importance of the issue to me, I went through my constituency database to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Not only that but there is an important effect for the sheer humanity of having appropriate living standards. The Deputy is quite right to raise it. Under section 34 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, any person who contravenes the regulations I discussed in my previous contribution, fails to comply with an improvement notice or re-lets a house on the private side will be...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I am answering on behalf of the Minister for housing, who has responsibility for water and other things. The Deputy is quite right. Uisce Éireann's annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 were laid before the Houses at the end of June 2024. The year 2023 is the first year that Uisce Éireann has been audited, both by its...