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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding provided to community and voluntary organisations, not-for-profit and charitable organisations by her Department to help with the impact of Covid-19 and related measures on the finances of the organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 specifically in relation to the issuing of driver licences to applicants for international protection that is, asylum seekers which is currently not permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to employ additional homecare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60363/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am glad Deputy Pringle asked that question because it was exactly where I was going to go. I note, between the different people making contributions, that Dr. Taylor and Ms Hurley have made essentially the same point in relation to this. Dr. Schweppe takes a slightly different position. Dr. Schweppe might take a minute of my time to explain the different position to make sure that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, please. I have more questions and I ask Dr. Schweppe to be quick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. Are jurisdictions that have considered and not adopted that approach getting convictions? The committee is concerned that we have legislation that works and is a threat. I appreciate the point Dr. Schweppe makes about a conviction of that kind hanging around somebody for a very long time, potentially an unduly long time, particularly in the case of somebody very young and so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will answer that question because I am sensitive to my remaining time. I think effective legislation does involve convictions. Behaviour is influenced by seeing some incidents going through the courts and, hopefully, having a deterrent effect on everybody else. I do not want to have legislation through which we cannot get convictions because we have not approached it in the correct way....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Chair. Senator Ward’s point is good. There might be misinformation about a group of people from a particular country, or all people from a country. One can think of lots of political contexts where that could be used. It might be important. It sometimes happens in academic discourse, whether inadvertently or deliberately, as well as political and social discourse, so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is interesting and speaks so much to Irish people's revulsion about that activity. I do not know if I am correct, but it seems to me from the presentation that it comes to it, possibly, from the convicted person’s perspective. What I am much more concerned about is the original victim, and the crime not happening in the first instance, in the context of trying to structure the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60766/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all of our guests for coming in today. Is it in order for me to ask questions etc.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am a new Member of the Oireachtas and a new member of the committee. I want to ask the members of the commission about some of the details of their work, if they do not mind. I do not mind which of the commissioners chooses to respond based on how they organise their work. Taking it through, where we have been to date, over the course of the Troubles there were 16 people disappeared....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that. What is the mechanism? I am seeking some understanding of how it works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am trying to get a sense of the pace with which information may have come. Over the course of the commission's work, has it received a large volume of information about a number of cases or has it been consistently spread out? Has it come in dribs and drabs or something more organised? I am not sure whether our guests can talk about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the constraints with which the commission operates. I am trying to ask questions within that, as our guests will understand. Last week, we had the opportunity to meet Mr. Oliver McVeigh, as the Chairman mentioned. He was clear about how desperately he and his family want to find his brother, a subject of significant work on the commission's part. He urged us, as public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. All loss is difficult but it is a different kind of loss not to know where one's loved one is, or to think of him or her as lost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is certainly our intention to draw as much attention to it as possible in this period. Mr. McVeigh was clear that he hopes that, if information could come to light over this winter period, it could lead to an opportunity for further good-weather digs in the spring and going into the summer. These opportunities are running out, so I think it is fair to say we are trying to draw attention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Knupfer stated that the commission is not interested in what people did, expect insofar as it might help it to locate the bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We know what people did. We know that innocent people were murdered and secretly buried in parts of Ireland and then the location of their remains were hidden from the families for decades and that in excess of 40 years later, we are still asking for where the bodies of people on this island are buried in order that we can give some tiny comfort to their siblings before they, too, pass on....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (9 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the disbursement of the €2 million fund for farm safety has been set out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60498/21]