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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That would be very difficult. I am sure Ms McGinley can see that from the look on my face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is the matter of how it reads across for people in other categories. It is a broader legislative query.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am talking about identifying one group of people in the State for whom those rights are set out in legislation. I am just trying to tease out the practicalities of it and how that would read across for other groups who are not victims of sexual trafficking. As I said outside, it may just be my lack of knowledge but it is not something I am that familiar with in terms of setting it out in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a different model, essentially.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. Did Dr. Saidléar want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Or our perception of it did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That will happen some day. I do not disagree with the witnesses, by the way; I am just looking for a reference model.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that his Department has had with local county councils to ensure that local authority housing departments are properly staffed and resourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the possibility of an adapted first-homes scheme for areas such as Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56906/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details in relation to the National Access Plan and the way that his Department plans to monitor participation and successful inclusion; if there will be specific targets for individual groups, people with disabilities, students who are socio-economically disadvantaged and students who are members of Irish Traveller and Roma...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the online learning hub on sexual consent, launched in January 2022; if there will be stakeholder engagement and follow up with further and higher education institutions on the way that the hub could, if necessary, be further improved and continually updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to reduce a 52-week wait for an endometriosis excision surgery, considering that further delay to this type of surgery may impact severely on women's reproductive health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59597/22]

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I congratulate the Minister on and thank him for his recent important work on behalf of Ireland. I will discuss wind energy, particularly offshore wind energy. I want to highlight two points. The first is the proposal near my constituency for the Kish and Bray banks. I support offshore wind energy completely. The opportunity for cheaper electricity, energy security and to shift away from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the back-to-work enterprise allowance in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of these applications that were granted; if consideration has been given to extending the back-to-work enterprise allowance which is currently a two-year plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that the financial supports for HubController, which had been financially supported by the SSEI, have been removed, given that the service can improve energy efficiency and reduce usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58928/22]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will start with the prisons. I do not see anything in regard to education or the schools. Is that because it is dealt with in a different Vote? Is that with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science or is there any measure of that under the Department of Justice?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine.