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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On 19 January this year, this House stood collectively behind the community of Tullamore and the family of Ashling Murphy following her untimely and violent death at the hands of a man in plain sight of onlookers. The good, decent people of Ireland stood, as we stood inside this House, in every town in Ireland in solidarity, in a massive public demonstration against violence against women....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I urge the Minister of State in particular to advance the work he is beginning on a joint agency response to crime with regard to young offenders up to the age of 24. There is a necessity to target the 5% of this group of who become persistent offenders. They are an extremely vulnerable group in many ways but there are persistent offenders who slip through the very successful youth...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. This was the first topic I spoke on in the Dáil. I refer to the importance of having assessors trained in coercive control and other coercive behaviours regarding section 47 reports. I also said they should have the capacity to understand manipulation, where it exists. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice has just considered these...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank and congratulate the Minister of State on this far-reaching Bill. Significant work has gone into it. He has managed to go much further in the Bill than we on the justice committee expected when we did our work in this area. I congratulate him on the Bill, which I know has the opportunity to develop further through the various legislative Stages. In particular, I congratulate him...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the steps being taken by her Department to promote and to support the reduction of reoffending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60359/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the number of domestic violence refuge spaces to date in 2022; if she will provide an update on the number of domestic violence refuge spaces made available since government formation to date; if she will provide an update on the work underway to secure a domestic violence refuge in Dún...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has enough PRSI contributions to avail of the PRSI treatment benefit specifically free hearing aids; if there are any other benefits currently available that the person may not be availing of; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60218/22]

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 wish to speak.

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 hope to be able to come back to the meeting. I wish to make some points on the submission from IHREC. I completely agree with the first point made by the representatives from IHREC that the provisions for separate legal representation should also be extended for the purposes of sexual exploitation. That is obvious. We have other legislative reference to the point that, "the term...

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: Of those 744 women, based on all the research Professors Breen and Healy have conducted into this, what proportion of the women were trafficked? I appreciate that it is speculative.

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: Of the 744 women who were for sale on Irish websites for sex on International Women's Day, what proportion does Professor Breen imagine, from his research, were likely to have been trafficked?

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: Between 15% and 100%.

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: However, it is still stunning to hear it stated in so direct a manner.

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: In those conditions.

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 s why the immigration status the MRCI raised is so important.

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.