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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It exists separately and was not part of the process.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How long is the contract? Will it be up for review? Is it of an indefinite duration? What is its nature?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is an appropriate timeline for that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is that within six months of the awarding of the contract?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand and appreciate that. What I am interested in is that we can see the parameters of that at an early stage. I do not want the Committee of Public Accounts to have to come back to this in a year when we could have asked these questions now. It is my understanding that the Department will provide us with a sense of the parameters that it put around the contract when it was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Advice could be taken from the Chair in terms of the breakdown of the cost per person. It may not be able to provide that at that level. Will the Department give us a sense of the structure of it and what is being provided? We do not want to have to come back to this later.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am interested in the value-for-money piece and how that is being assessed by the Department and might be assessed over the six-month period before the contract is regularised. That is really the question. How is that value-for-money assessment is being conducted by the providers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: When I say value for money, I do not necessarily mean cheapest.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We have dealt with that at this committee before and that is why I am asking the questions about quality. There is also the opportunity to use local providers. It is a broad value-for-money question on quality.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 55. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his Department’s strategy towards advancing women’s rights and equality; if he will provide an update on his progress with regard to tackling the gender pay gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the White Paper to end direct provision; the timeline of proposed works and actions to dismantle direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27840/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It is great to have them here and to have this session. I have a couple of questions on foot of the opening statements. Can Mr. Peelo elaborate on a few things in his statement? I fully acknowledge what he stated about the ESRI and the problem of lone parents bearing primary responsibility for care. I find it difficult enough between two parents to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That was why I wanted to ask about this issue. I fully acknowledge what our guests have said but it goes further. A couple of my constituents have had difficulty with housing and councils, and there can be certain assumptions just because they are not the custodial parent all the time. It just is not thought about in the same way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What types of supports is Ms Byrne referring to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There should be no question of it becoming contingent on there being a problem. It is fine to have a baby at home for a year. That is great but there are people who might like to work a little at the same time. I would not like to get to the point where people might think this is the only way. It would be a bit like breastfeeding, where if someone is not doing it there is guilt and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the difference between reopening, on which I tend to agree with Mr. Montgomery, and review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank both witnesses for coming in. Listening to them and reading their statements gives a sense, as Mr. Montgomery said in his piece, of a long, hard-won process that came to an end at breakneck speed. We also get a sense from the way it was described that the purpose of the agreement was to try to end certain things - paramilitary and state violence - and bring about demilitarisation...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yesterday, members of the Traveller community held a protest outside Leinster House to highlight mental health issues facing the community. As Fine Gael spokesperson for equality, I apologise to them for not being present. I was at a special school with members of the new Joint Committee on Autism at the same time as the protest. In response to a parliamentary question on 25 May, the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Femicide is the most extreme end of gender and sexual violence. However, it is part of a bigger problem and what leads to it is a cultural acceptance of entry-level harassment and misogyny, which Deputy Alan Farrell called out in a very public way in his experience on public transport. It is the controlling behaviours that have been exhibited, which Deputy Stanton tried to address through...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to come back to this important subject as the third national strategy is prepared and published. I want to use this opportunity to recognise why we are doing this and to keep the awareness of why we are doing this at the forefront of our minds. I acknowledge the presence of Deputy David Stanton, who, when he was with the Department of...