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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On Deputy Nash's point, the Department has met with Irish Equity, Screen Guilds Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland, Screen Ireland and Animation Ireland on several occasions. The Department has reviewed the credit regularly under the tax expenditure guidelines. It was reviewed in 2018 and 2022. In 2015 it was restructured from an investor led credit to a corporation tax credit, following a...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is a big thing to say.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: But that is the same thing.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In your opinion.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for bringing forward the motion. I watched much of the committee proceedings on this matter. I was interested in it. The Deputy and I share a constituency adjacent to where much of this work happens and many of the people who live in our constituency are involved in production or work in the industry. It is a matter of great importance to the Deputy and me. For that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter on behalf of his constituents. In recent years, general practice has had to do more as demand for services, life expectancy and the population have increased. The Government has taken a number of measures to improve the recruitment and retention of GPs, and to increase the number of GPs practising in the State. The 2019 GP agreement provides for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I mention the locum services and the Deputy highlighted the difficulty in getting insurance. I invite him to bring that to me directly as Minister of State with responsibility for insurance. If there is a systemic issue, I will raise it. I will discuss it with Insurance Ireland and try to find a route for it. It seems that getting locums often involves asking people who have retired to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, I know. I was not saying there was.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The question of timing is very important, particularly the time patients arrive at a hospital. They can end up with a very long wait until 7 or 7:30 the following morning when the surgical teams come back in. Therefore, if they turn up at 11 p.m., and I have personally experienced this they can either stay until 7 a.m., or they can go home and come back. In my case, I was in Crumlin,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Very.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not intend to read out the email address or phone number because I suspected people were already well aware of them, they would be of little assistance in circumstances where a seven-year boil notice was in effect, and that it probably was not the most efficient way of communicating. If it is an on-off thing, I suggest that an app on mobile phones that everybody is plugged into is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What age was the child?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Not necessarily, a Cheann Comhairle. Emergency surgical services are an issue everywhere. I understand this involves a 17-year-old child. I have a response for the Deputies around the provision of emergency surgical services. However, I will say I have an 18-month-old child who required emergency orthopaedic surgery. We turned up at Crumlin hospital, which is a paediatric centre of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy says, it is an unusual angle, but it remains eminently fair. It is a condition that is set out by another party. As the Deputy stated, she went through the records and not only could she not find evidence of whether hares were identified as male or female, she also - I do not mean this to be funny - could not find evidence of whether the pregnancy status or otherwise of female...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Pregnancy tests.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ultrasounds.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Buckley for raising the issue of providing safe drinking water in east Cork. I ask him to forgive the fact that it is me taking it rather than a line Minister. If the latter were the case, the Deputy might receive a more direct response. I appreciate the Deputy’s concerns for the communities to which he referred. As he is more than well aware, this is a very...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I have a policy on never commenting on somebody, whether they look pregnant or not. Even if they are close to giving birth, I still never comment and leave it as a matter for themselves. Of course, one can never tell the state of another person's pregnancy. I am not trying to be facetious in any way. The Deputy has raised an interesting analysis of the licence...