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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is moot. I would prefer to hear from the Minister about how she is proposing to address these sets of questions together. I do not need to press amendment No. 9.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On the same point, the Minister is trying to address that so I would like to hear from her.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Minister. I am aware of cases where gardaí are prosecuting people for persistently sending images or persistently following up with people, and that is done under existing laws, so it is not perhaps necessary to create a separate offence. The value of the amendment is to be able to raise and clarify that and ensure that it can be addressed in the other legislation. To...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have been involved with An Garda in cases of this nature and it is capable of taking prosecutions. The difficulty for it, on a practical basis, is getting social media companies and telecommunications companies to respond to it in a timely way in order to access the evidence that it needs to be able to take the different cases. The Garda is clearly able to take the cases and under the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can I get clarification on domestic violence-related cases and amendment No. 47?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I just wanted to check that the words "shall be considered an aggravating factor" were used, not "may be considered an aggravating factor", which it is under the Domestic Violence Act.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I absolutely accept what the Minister is saying. The difficulty with the phrase is, of course, that it is a subjective test as to how it impacts on a person. One of the consequences of this type of offence is that people do not necessarily want to admit it has had a serious effect on them. If that is the threshold for reaching a prosecution or getting a conviction, it will be difficult....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (2 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage of drafting of the proposed legislation giving effect to the commitments outlined in the Programme for Government in relation to gender recognition for children aged 16 to 17 years of age; the expected timeline for referral to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Last week, John Finucane, MP, came in to seek our support for his family's quest for an inquiry into the horrific murder of his father. In the course of that meeting and of the debate on the Seanad motion which preceded it, the Houses of the Oireachtas recognised and recounted the terrible details of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Youth Unemployment (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures under way in her Department to tackle youth unemployment and to support young persons affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39999/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the establishment of the Commission on Pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39998/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 126. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs : if he is satisfied with the level of core funding provided to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service providers; if funding is provided in such a way as to provide certainty to the organisations and enable them to carry out their vital work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40651/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 139. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated to support domestic, sexual and gender-based violence services in 2021; the further funding that will be allocated arising from the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; the steps that can be taken towards providing funding on a multi-annual basis to service providers; and if he will make a statement on...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Tairgim: “Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú.” I move: “That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution.” I am pleased to introduce this Bill today and I thank the House for the opportunity to do so. This is a Bill to provide for the possibility of...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and associated agencies have adapted to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic to develop new markets for Irish food and drink producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41513/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How have the Department and its associated agencies adapted to the challenge of Covid-19 to try to continue to develop new markets for Irish food and drink producers?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I congratulate the Minister of State on that work. Agrifood is a very significant part of our export economy and our national economy. It has developed and it is great to see the momentum. It is clear from the Department and from listening to the Minister's and the Minister of State's responses today how much emphasis there is for dairy and beef, which is appropriate, but I might also flag...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Exports (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State. That is so welcome. One of the challenges for small businesses is that they have been able to take some of their own steps where there has not been a language barrier but the United Kingdom leaving the European Union makes it much more difficult. Indeed, the agencies are very supportive. I suppose some of the smaller businesses feel that there is this...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister, and Deputy O’Reilly also for introducing this very important piece of legislation and its contribution to the debate that we are having again and again about domestic violence and how we try to approach and stop it. It is obvious and clear that victims need to be given the time to assess their situation and to determine a plan in their own best interests and...