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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. This is great progress. It is not just about rural communities. In my town of Dún Laoghaire, 140,000 people live within ten minutes of a major urban town in the greater Dublin area, 34% of whom are under 30 and want to be in businesses driven by innovation and knowledge. George's Street, which is the main street, is 1.2 km long and has 264 shopfronts, many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. Again, I appreciate his response and I go back to the climate imperative on using the structures we have, and there is a big opportunity to do so. The Tánaiste is absolutely right that we will have concrete retail spaces and new businesses, and we already see this coming into Dún Laoghaire and it is very exciting. We still have all of this vacancy and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications currently being reviewed; the number of persons that have been granted citizenship to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27632/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children, respectively, waiting to receive a certificate of citizenship; when the next citizenship ceremony, virtual or otherwise, is planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27633/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The issue of citizenship is very important to people, particularly post Brexit. I am aware that the Department of Justice has made very good progress this year with applications but that is set against a very considerable backlog. Substantial work remains to be done and I ask the Minister to outline the situation in the Department, including what is being done to address some of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That would be welcome because people are worried about, for example, sending in their passport, particularly when the quality of communication, not from the Minister of State but from the Department, is sometimes opaque about what is being sought. I have complaints from people who say there is nobody to talk to, there is only a generic email address and they do not necessarily get a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Richmond raises the question of fast-track citizenship for those working on the front line. I understand the difficulty in prioritising one employment group over another within that process. There is another way of looking at it, as set out in a letter sent to the Government and to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, by 50 consultants from Beaumont Hospital on how...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am asking questions on behalf of Deputies Creed and Griffin. I believe they communicated this at an earlier stage. I can do so after Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My apologies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I welcome the Minister's reply to Question No. 132. This question is somewhat linked in that it concerns the commitment in the programme for Government to increase diversity in An Garda Síochána by recruiting and retaining members who represent more diverse and minority backgrounds.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. I am conscious that she and I are speaking as members of a minority in this Parliament but very much as privileged people in terms of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity and expression. It is great that we are having a conversation about this important issue. It is not in any sense a side issue but, rather, an issue of core...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Minister of State will know, Fine Gael is placing a very strong emphasis on what we can do to support better integration and intercultural understanding. Fine Gael has within its membership an intercultural integration group and we are trying to listen and ensure it is led by people who are impacted by barriers. I urge that with the conversation on An Garda Síochána, the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I acknowledge the additional supports provided this week to the 225,000 businesses that are the backbone of our economy. They generate employment and tax revenue, on which the provision of State services is based. In particular, I thank the Tánaiste for the business resumption support scheme, BRSS, which I hope will capture the small number of businesses that have been left out of the...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute a statement on this topic. I acknowledge the Minister of State's speech, his work in this area and the considerable progress he has made since coming into office. I thank Pavee Point nationally and, more locally in my own area, Southside Travellers Action Group, for their engagement with me over the past year in my role as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment The number of loans approved for each State-backed loan scheme supported by his Department in Dún Laoghaire and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending learner permits that are due to expire taking into consideration that there is a huge backlog of driver tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures put in place by her Department to protect pupils and staff against Covid-19 in primary and post-primary schools to ensure a reduction in the number of students being sent home to self-isolate as a result of becoming a close contact; if lateral flow testing is being considered by her to tackle this issue; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the revised relationship and sexual education programme being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment for primary and post-primary schools; if this new programme will be rolled out in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30287/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will not take too much time because I want to leave a lot of time for a response. I agree with everything Senator Currie said. I thank the representatives for being here. I gave the Chairman my time on the statement last week. I was chairing a committee, otherwise I would have been there. I am very honoured to have the opportunity to meet with the guests this morning and I thank them....

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Kelly mentioned the change to the one-stage process that was made last year. How does that work? How many homes have now been delivered through that new process?