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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can I come back to Mr. Cody on that? People have never faced these issues before and the documentation from Revenue and other sources is complex. The purpose of the scheme is to provide support and assistance to people who are in extremely stressful difficulties in their households and businesses at a time of a pandemic. Mr. Cody has intimated that twice in terms of their failure to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that but there have been a number of cases that, through quiet representations, I and other Deputies have managed to get reconciled. It is a question of tone and how we speak to people who have made genuine errors and are now in difficulties on foot of those. I want to raise one other case with Mr. Cody. It concerns a gentleman who made his payroll submissions by paper. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: He has been excluded on foot of that. I am very happy to send Mr. Cody the details because it would be wonderful to get these issues reconciled.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Cody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know very little about this subject but I have one question for the witnesses. Professor O'Néill just spoke about the phenomenal scale of the research at Magee campus. We have such good universities throughout this island. I have observed some changes in the last 20 years or so. I went to college with a lot of students from the North. The change in the number of A levels required...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Listening to the contributions, a great deal of that is students who live along the Border going to universities on one side or the other. However, it is about the rest of the island and students from Belfast studying in Cork or Dublin and collaborations involving Cork and Magee or others. This committee and the work of the Good Friday Agreement is about building better relationships and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ireland was fined for its delay in transposing the fourth directive. Is transposition enactment or commencement? When is commencement anticipated? What is the relationship between the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Finance? Section 26 refers to the Minister for Justice. Given that the Minister for Finance also has a role in this, what interplay between the two Departments is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the timeline for commencement? How many statutory instruments will be introduced? Will it be three or 20? Is there a plan envisaged for this, with a final date? Is transposition completed when all of the statutory instruments have been published? I appreciate that there has been a delay for obvious reasons. What is the plan?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is obvious but the legislation can be dealt with in Government time. Thereafter, in the Departments, what is the plan for commencement?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We do not have a plan just yet. Perhaps the next time we meet, we could discuss it further.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is not the question I am asking. Maybe we can address the plan for commencement at a later stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, it is the plan for the commencement of the sections, if that is what the transposition is hanging on. Given that there are two Ministers involved, what is the schedule? I am not asking about enactment.

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is clear to everyone in the House that the second lockdown has impacted our society, possibly more than the first. That is notwithstanding the participation of children in schools and the continuation of certain sectors of the economy. Thankfully, we have the hope of several vaccines for 2021. Without them, I believe the picture would be grim indeed. We know the impact lockdown has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that domestic employers who availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme for domestic employees, such as childminders, are being asked to pay the full amount given to them, as part of the scheme, back to the Revenue Commissioners; if a reimbursement scheme can be set up to cover this loss in view of the fact had...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if supports will be made available such as an adaption of the live events fund of €50 million to event management companies that due to the nature of their business and not having a physical premises have been unable to avail of the Covid restrictions support scheme and the industry is at serious issue of collapse; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken following allegations of sexual harassment in UCD; the further actions he plans to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37860/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve access to education for persons with disabilities and members of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in direct provision that have availed of the support scheme since changes were made in each year and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37862/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of TU designation applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38101/20]