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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would be obliged if Mr. Buckley would. The reason that this is so important is because when this was agreed initially there was no science museum in Ireland. There is an excellent science museum, which is not in my constituency. I have no connection to it. However, I have visited it, as have hundreds of thousands of other people. It received support all the way through Covid with the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Slightly less, but it is perfectly good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A contract.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In 2007.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a matter of considerable concern at this point. We have now spent ten years on this. The OPW, in fairness, has tried to resist having to progress this, recognising the changing circumstances. There is a private entity that fulfils the function from the perspective of the State. Regarding the scale of the build-out and the fit-out costs, I have never seen a business case. I am not...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 34. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific supports that are available for an organisation (details supplied) across Ireland, in particular in relation to a number of schemes announced recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62742/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Programme for Government (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Programme for Government commitments that have been achieved to date; the commitments with regards to broadband across Ireland that have been achieved to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62740/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the progress of the implementation of the local Digital Strategy in each county as detailed under the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61850/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that his Department has specifically made with regard to delivering the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56288/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if support will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) who has yet to receive a backdated payment of a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62835/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Adams. I will pick up where Deputy Lawless left. Mr. Adams spoke about those who do not wish to give up power. The next page was all about democracy. The distribution of power over the years has been the outcome of democratic elections, some of which Sinn Féin contested here and some of which it did not. Surely Mr. Adams accepts that it was a democratic outcome and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fair enough. I thank Mr. Adams for coming here. I have watched him since I was a child. He will be aware that I have disagreed profoundly with his interpretation of history and the justification for violence. I come from a different nationalist tradition. However, I also recognise that he was the person who brought an end to violence, whatever about any earlier involvement or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is where we disagree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I think it is fair to say that Mr. Adams is still deeply influential. Does he not agree? He is still deeply influential and his voice carries a lot of weight with Sinn Féin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is hugely important, and I thank Mr. Adams for doing so. I believe, as Irish nationalists, that reconciliation is the Irish imperative first. That is the objective. Mr. Adams talks about reconciliation in his paper. However, the language I, also as an Irish nationalist, picked up from it was Tory Government, unionist death squad, DUP intransigence, and the Irish Government has no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am so glad to hear Mr. Adams say that. Does that mean he would make that statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not miss Mr. Adams saying it. What I repeated was that following that statement, Mr. McConville had his interpretation of that, which he gave in his testimony to this committee 12 months ago. He had also heard those comments by the IRA. He was more specific in his follow up. He would say that is not an answer to his question, and he did say that in this committee 12 months ago. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. What about the equivalence of the tragedies of Edgar Graham and Pat Finucane?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Adams.

Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State for his extraordinary work on this important legislation. Tomorrow, the special Joint Committee on Gender Equality will publish its report, and it is no surprise that focusing on the issue of women in politics and public life was a key target of that committee, and of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality, to find practical ways to provide help and...