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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...committee) 41.Section 76N of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1)— (i) in paragraph (a)— (I) by the substitution of “from among the members, by secret ballot at the organisation meeting” for “by secret ballot at the organisation meeting”, and (II) by the substitution of “filled, from among the members, by...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can see at every level that huge effort is going into this and that is fantastic. I want to go back down to the broader read-across of other supports for public transport in schools. I will highlight the example of the 59 and 111 bus routes in Dublin. This is where a review of the routes and timetables is necessary to support schoolchildren and their families. At 3.43 p.m. a 59 bus...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department would have been involved in the development of the directive at EU level and would have had sight, similar to the GDPR directive, and deep knowledge of the directive before it was ever agreed at EU level. Surely this work had begun at that stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I cannot answer that at this stage because it has not been agreed yet. It is the subject of discussions at EU level at this stage. I am certainly happy to come back to the Deputy once that is agreed, but we cannot comment on it yet because the next MFF has not been agreed. It is being agreed within that context.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This may be a question better targeted at the HSE at the second session this afternoon but I will elicit an opinion from Ms Ní Sheaghdha's own perspective. At this stage, have all the student nurses who will qualify this year been offered full-time positions that are not via agencies? Have other healthcare professionals like physiotherapists, occupational therapists and all those who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. A key part of that better society is continued low unemployment, continued employment opportunities and the opportunity to derive Exchequer returns from PAYE and people paying tax. One of the key parts around incentivising people into the labour market and addressing the cost of creating jobs is looking at taxation. I would reject any attempt to increase...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is an important set of decisions ahead for the Government in the next couple of days. Only two of the four metrics that we have discussed before are going in the right direction. It is important to be prudent yet and to acknowledge also vaccine progress, with 10% of the people having had the first vaccine dose. As the Government prepares its decisions, I ask the Tánaiste to look...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The results were at variance with the random sampling exercise. Was there a difficulty with the design of the random sampling exercise? I am curious about how far divergent it appears to be. We are talking about real delays in the design, both the high-level design and, as we discussed this morning, the low-level design, that are at variance with the assessment that had been done. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One matter that arose with the Minister at an early stage related to someone who had a baby in February or March of this year and is returning from maternity leave. Due to the circumstances that we are in, that person has difficulties with coming back to work. Quite a number of people would hope they could get the benefit of parental leave at that stage before coming back to work. There...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy knows, the EU is currently considering the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, which is not anywhere close to being agreed at this point. However, the proposal within the MFF does envisage a new special instrument, namely, the Ukraine reserve, for an amount of €17 billion. In addition to that amount in grants and provisioning, the Ukraine facility would also cover...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I admire their work in totally different ways. I am delighted to see them here. Ms Joyce and I previously saw each other at the parliamentary forum. We were speaking again at yesterday's meeting of the Joint Committee on Justice regarding places of detention. Deputy Bacik and I co-chair the penal reform group within the Oireachtas. I was struck by...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If I go on my app, the national lottery has technology capable of taking my money immediately, whether it is from my phone, my bank account or indeed my bank card. It is very efficient at taking my money but it appears it was not quite as efficient at managing its own systems to ensure people who had actively self-excluded were not getting information for a 36-hour period. Can Ms Boate...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As I understand it much of Galway 2020 has been cancelled at this point. What is the position with the budget for that and how might it be repurposed at this point?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How long is it taking at the moment for healthcare workers to get results of test? Are they all back at this stage within 24 hours for healthcare workers?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: First, I want to acknowledge how positive it is that we are at the numbers we are at this week, and I thank the Minister for his work on that. On foot of what Deputy Róisín Shortall said, will the Minister outline the number of vaccinators trained?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is certainly why I chose the Law Society at an early career stage as I could not afford to train as a barrister and the Law Society was a different model. There is a broader range at that stage. I call Senator Barry Ward.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Graham should get on at Glenageary at 8.10 a.m. and tell me how she gets on. We would like it to be more regular. I am asking about the practical problems that impede this because people would like to know.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What lessons can we learn from that? Why did that happen? What steps were taken at the different stages to ensure that was so? That is a congregated and closed setting, as are other settings we have looked at so what was different about the National Forensic Mental Health Service?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. I apologise for cutting across her but we are quite over time. I thank Ms Murphy for outlining that post-traumatic stress disorder is a very serious clinical psychiatric condition and requires appropriate and urgent supports to try to help people through what can escalate and become a very difficult condition. Appropriate diagnosis at the earliest stage is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is also my reading of it, but I am at 96% and I like to be at 102%. That is my gap but that is also my read of that reply. I would like the opportunity, however, to go back to the Department, to clarify for the Senator so that we can get to 102%.