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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the specifics of the extension of the working family payment; if there is an estimate of the number of additional families that will now be eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49480/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support a matter relating to the working family payment and the closure of a person’s (details supplied) application for renewal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the impact that the Budget 2023 changes on childcare costs will have for parents in Dún Laoghaire having regard to the unduly high costs currently incurred there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50032/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to raise the free school books scheme, as announced in budget 2023. The scheme was presented as a universal measure from which all families and children would benefit in a €9.6 billion budget in the Department of Education. A total of over €50 million is being spent on free books but this does not apply to children in fee-paying schools. We have just heard from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The cultural piece in respect of multiple seat constituencies is important. There are demands to be everywhere. Everyone's event is, naturally, the most important to them but I would like to put my kid to bed some nights of the week. Choices have to be made and it is very difficult. We must talk positively about politics before we can attract more people but we cannot be dishonest about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can go further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do. However, the reason those benefits are paid to women is because those needs have tended historically to fall more often to women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will make a point about the universality of the free books scheme. Everybody was hoping that scheme would be universal. There are people in the Taoiseach's constituency who might like that to be the case. We need universal measures for families.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific plans in place for free school-books as announced in Budget 2023 including whether it will apply to all children, including the children in fee paying primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support organising bus transport for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which the feed-in tariff for the microgeneration support scheme is set; his view on whether the Regulator should have a role in setting prices; his further views on whether income from the power generated should be taxed given the imperative to bring more households into the scheme and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Museum Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 4 October 2022, if there has been a competitive tendering process for the promotion of the proposed National Children's Science Museum; if there are any other promoters in receipt of "free of charge" licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on waiting times for assessments of children with autism in Dún Laoghaire; the number of children waiting for such an assessment; the number of assessments conducted and completed in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50033/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 73. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which the extra €67 million budget allocation will be spent in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48988/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Diplomatic Representation (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact that his Department has had with the Russian Embassy in Dublin since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48985/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the further measures that Ireland can take to ensure that war criminals committing atrocities in Ukraine will be brought to justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 113. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on Ireland's ability to protect its coastal waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48989/22]

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I am glad its focus is on mediation, which reduces stress and cost and helps to manage a process better overall. Many Deputies have spoken on the Bill, but I wish to speak on a related matter of litigation, that being, the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, published last Friday, on the 2021 accounts of the public services and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am aware the Taoiseach addressed the business supports on a macro level earlier this morning. It is clear the Government is backing business and helping companies to pay their energy bills this winter. An example of that in my own constituency is a retail food business that had a bill of €1,300 for two months last year and this year it is €6,932. It is an extraordinary...