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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Apologies have been received from Deputy Lawless, who is attending a joint policing event on community policing. I ask Members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones or to switch them to flight mode as they interfere with the sound system, make it difficult for the reporters to cover the meeting and adversely affect television and web streaming. The purpose of our meeting is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Dr. Conroy. Her three minutes are up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Keane and call on Ms Brady.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Brady very much and call on Mr. Herrick to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Herrick. I call Dr. Garrihy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Dr. Garrihy and all our witnesses. To clarify something before we start questions with the representatives of the Department, is it already engaged with the SPT by any chance in the context of the ICCL question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Dr. Garrihy wish to contribute? We have not heard from him yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Do any other members wish to come in in the first round? No. We will start round two. I call Deputy Daly, followed by Senator Ruane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What are the views of the representatives of the prison visiting committees on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, on the point more broadly. I want to try to capture their experience of day-to-day visiting because there are a number of different prison visiting committees around the country that feed into the witnesses and Dr. Conroy and Ms Ryan are representing them. Anybody watching would benefit from hearing from them about what they do and see on visits. I would like them to describe that to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Dr. Conroy give us some examples of the kinds of things? Is it phone calls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask that to tease out the issue between the role of the prison visiting committees vis-à-visthe other structures and how that could and should work. I visited Cloverhill with Ms Ryan a little while ago and I visited Limerick, though without the prison visiting committee. On the communication between the governor, the people who are in prison and the staff, some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to bring in the IPRT and Dr. Garrihy. I want to reconcile this point because it is obvious we have been left with some space in the Bill. The heads even reference that there is a review going on, so it is clearly an open question for the Department. We might as well have the conversation now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. We can take the appointments piece as agreed, essentially because that is dealt within the Bill and because we know where that is going. It is a matter of what it does, of independence and of interaction. I agree with Ms Brady's distillation of the points. Does Dr. Garrihy have a view?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the details of the proposals on domestic violence leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50289/22]

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...