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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for their attendance. I am very glad they are here. What challenges are children with additional needs, particularly autistic children, facing at the moment? What difficulties are being faced by children in any sort of interface areas? In her opening remarks, Ms Holohan referred to additional challenges post Covid. I ask our guests to address the particular issues they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What level of therapeutic support is available to autistic children there in terms of speech and language or other forms of therapeutic or early intervention supports the children will need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was just wondering what level of provision is available. Ms Nolan stated that by the time children get to secondary school, they are in a very difficult situation. I was not sure if that was partly due to an absence of service provision or if it was down to the nature of the schooling or simply the nature of what they were facing. Of course, all autistic children are not the same. I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Nolan. Senator Currie may wish to come in. I do not want to take all her time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It will be delivered to all students-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We look forward to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank both of our witnesses for coming in. I have followed their work in different ways and am delighted to have them here. I am very much enjoying listening to them. I want to ask two things. The first is about care in the home. We have seen this issue particularly throughout the Covid pandemic but, let us face it, it has always existed. There was a really good report published at EU...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am very pleased to speak on this Bill today, which I welcome. It is an important update and a new approach to managing compensation claims. Last week, I was at the Dún Laoghaire Garda station for the centenary celebrations. A significant number of members and retired members were there, including those getting long-service awards. There was a fantastic exhibition of the history of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Income Inequality (17 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the findings of the latest survey on income and living conditions data and the impact that her Department’s income supports have had on these findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24225/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to attract unemployed women or women looking to return to work into the construction sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24224/22]

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am very pleased to speak in this debate. I attended the Fine Gael conference on agriculture in Tullamore at the weekend. It was wonderful to see how vibrant it was and how vibrant the participants were about agriculture and agri-food in Ireland. My constituency in Dún Laoghaire is not exactly a rural one, but it is dependent, as is every constituency, on the success of the agri-food...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have significantly less time.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was supposed to have six minutes. I have been a patient of the National Maternity Hospital. My constituency includes the National Maternity Hospital. My son has been a long-term critically-ill patient of the neo-natal care unit. I am one who knows well exactly how deficient the National Maternity Hospital can be and has been. I thank the Minister for his engagement with me over...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am next on my list anyway.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise again with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, the need for residential and respite care for people with profound disabilities in Dún Laoghaire in my constituency, in particular the case of 28-year-old Louisa Fitzgerald who has been profoundly disabled since birth and requires 24-hour care. Her parents are in their 60s and both have been through...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How many legal cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is it three or is it 30? Could Professor Mey give us a ballpark figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that the professor cannot give me an exact figure but these cases must come to her attention. They must cross her desk. Is it more like three or more like 30 cases? I ask her to give me a guide.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that and I appreciate the obligations arising from the whistleblower legislation. They do not always get to court. It is the ones that get it court that I am asking about. They must be high profile within the governance of the university and they must come to Professor Mey's desk. I am surprised there is not a general sense from, perhaps, Mr. Butler, that somebody cannot give...