Results 2,101-2,120 of 5,597 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I believe the Senator is asking me for the substance of the guidelines, which I do not have.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The timeline is that a draft will be published on the publication of the Bill. It will be published alongside the publication of the Bill, as I noted there in the answer. That will be in order that Members of the Oireachtas and stakeholders can have sight of what is envisaged. I think the Senator is asking me to confirm exemptions or the status of exemptions in an answer, which I cannot...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Conway for raising this important issue. I was struck by the total decency, generosity, kindness and humanity he has shown in advancing his Commencement matter on this issue and the way in which he has done it by respecting the lives, experiences and difficulties encountered by the people who have come here from Ukraine and developed good relationships here and the overall...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for again providing me with the opportunity to listen and understand the concerns he is raising regarding the balance in County Clare. I generally think the county-by-county strategy is where we need to get to, insofar as advancing the Minister's thinking in this regard already. Of course, there is a need to rationalise and manage contracts in cases where some providers...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Asylum Seekers (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I ask the Senator to forgive me. I had the date of 24 June. I thank the Senator.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. This is what we are trying to do all the time, which is to work within a European structure. We are one of 27. Ireland has 14 MEPs out of 720. We advocate as strongly as we can but we must not overstate our position or relevance either. If we are one of a club we have to respect that we are one of a club and that we work within a consensus environment. This is what...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Members for their contributions. The other issues that were on the extensive agenda of the European Council meeting on 27 June were the internal reform agenda, Georgia, Moldova, the EU's strategy for the Black Sea region and its response to hybrid threats. On migration, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, provided leaders with a written update of...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is my point. This must also be the question for Europe. The General Affairs Council has looked at how we deal with existing members. We have the Article 7 procedure with Hungary, for example. As politics moves to the right and towards a more fascist agenda across Europe, we must look at how we deal with existing member states. I represented Ireland in the Article 7 hearings on...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is there a question? I have so much to respond to.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There has been no response on the trade agreement. As the Taoiseach said during questions to the Taoiseach, if it were the position of the European Council more broadly that there should be a response, we would get a response from Ursula von der Leyen. There are different positions. Ireland continues to advocate for its position. That is not a shared position. We raise it and try to...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I made the same point.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not. I explicitly said-----
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I listened to the debate-----
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the question?
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does the Deputy mean by that?
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What I am saying is that the overwhelming majority of contributions to this debate focused on Gaza. That is really important; all I am saying is there should be balance on both sides, as I said about the Council also. I already addressed Deputy Harkin's point. I counted the number of contributions. I am also looking for this balance. On the Irish position, we have actively divested...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I might answer some questions about Ursula von der Leyen more broadly, because it was the feature of many contributions. The then Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, made clear his disappointment and the fact that her statements at that time, in the very beginning in October, did not reflect the Irish position and went too far. They did not represent the competence that she as President of the...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Threatened by whom? Threatened by Russia.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are not part of NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a cause for concern.