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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. Perhaps we can discuss the following issue another time. As the scheme has operated for so long has the service analysed the long-term rates of recidivism and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, but there are plenty of other factors as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The last time I was in Mountjoy Prison a fantastic prisoner advocacy programme had been introduced whereby training and information was provided about preventing and treating Hepatitis C.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I, too, congratulate the Red Cross.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Eddie D'Arcy runs a SOLAS Compass project that provides training in bicycle repairs to young offenders in Wheatfield Prison. I am concerned about the 18 to 24-year age group due to their potential to reoffend. Conducting a SOLAS project in the community is one thing but continuing it in Wheatfield is important. Has any progress been made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They are children.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The scheme is more expensive and the witnesses may be asked about it at future meetings held by the Committee of Public Accounts. In my view, it would be money very well spent and I thank the witnesses for their responses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received allegations of sexual harassment at third level; his plans to extend consent information across third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43152/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend third level and apprenticeship opportunities for persons with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43151/20]

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy Howlin for all their work on this Bill. I, like many others, have spoken with Safe Ireland, the Rape Crisis Network and all the other groups involved in helping us refine and develop this legislation brought forward by Deputy Howlin. He really pushed it through and I congratulate him on it. I hope the Minister of State will be able to accept...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with Deputy Kenny in that we had a detailed discussion on this on Committee Stage. We are aware that the offence is prosecuted and is being prosecuted by the Garda under harassment legislation at present. I agree with the general point on getting the Bill as right as possible. On the previous amendment, the Bills Office has been able to insert additional amendments. A Labour Party...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Enhancement Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the organisations in Dublin that have benefited in 2020 from the community enhancement programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43811/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 69. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the new volunteering strategy; her plans to implement same; the level of engagement with communities in its development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43812/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Communications Market Regulation (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to progress the programme for Government commitment to enable regulatory bodies such as ComReg, the Central Bank and the CCPC to have greater use of administrative penalties to sanction rogue operators, as is the norm in other EU Member States; when he expects the Competition Bill (ECN+) to be brought before the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that have been provided to enable the Workplace Relations Commission to function at the optimum level during the Covid-19 pandemic given the importance of its work and the cases that it is dealing with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43817/20]

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I will focus on the complaints process in general in the annual report. I find it interesting in the context of working with a different group of people but all of us as Deputies work with people who have problems of different natures. Some of those problems we can resolve and others we cannot. We try to resolve some of them but some are not...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine from an assistance perspective but I can imagine somebody, for example, bringing an employment complaint within an organisation and although it is dealt with by a different organisation, it would still be intimidating or difficult. For example, what is done on the human level? Do people proactively meet the complainants or is the process done over the phone? What caring steps...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not person to person.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It would happen in a meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is much more difficult by phone. Phones and email feel much more remote.