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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In fact, I am familiar with it. There is a cost to that and to providing the digital tools that are necessary for it. The Prison Service could come under criticism at a later stage for having invested in the sorts of digital tools, such as tablets and so on, that would be necessary to deliver that and I do not think it should be criticised for that. I am trying to pre-empt that criticism....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Significant sums were spent over the past three years on enhancing library facilities, yet libraries have been closed and there has been difficulty in accessing libraries, particularly in Arbour Hill, Cloverhill and Mountjoy. This issue arises in the context of the different programmes for prisons’ officers, whether they relate to regime management plans or the organisation of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I apologise for interrupting but I find that difficult to accept. People are locked up for very significant periods and the Irish Prison Service has done an exceptional job in managing Covid throughout. Nevertheless, people still need something to do, not just to watch the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I accept that and, indeed, prisoners reported they could request books through the Red Cross or get them through staff and so on. My point was that cleaning books is not very difficult. I think Mr. Black wanted to come in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have many further questions but I will ask them in a later slot.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for coming before the committee. I have many questions about prisons. The Joint Committee on Justice recently spoke to Ms McCaffrey and Mr. Black. It is good to see them again. Much of what we have been talking about relates to the costs and benefits of the rehabilitation programmes and the emphasis on the rehabilitation of prisoners with a particular focus on...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to return to the question of prisons and Covid. I think prisons did an incredible job, especially in the first wave, of protecting prisoners and staff in overcrowded congregated settings from what could have been an absolute catastrophe. It came at a significant price, however, and there is an opportunity to learn from that. It is clear from going through all the reports of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Justice is very good at legislation, especially criminal justice legislation. It has more expertise within it than many of the other Departments. It produces criminal justice legislation all the time. What happened?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This was not the first EU directive that had to be transposed into legislation on the criminal justice side. The Department has experience of that before.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I ask Mr. O'Sullivan to be very brief because I want to go back to Ms McPhillips.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department would have been involved in the development of the directive at EU level and would have had sight, similar to the GDPR directive, and deep knowledge of the directive before it was ever agreed at EU level. Surely this work had begun at that stage.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that and I understand the context. We would have been aware of that but I appreciate the point. I will go back to Ms McPhillips who made a comment earlier that caused me concern so I want to make sure I understand what she means. She said that we are constantly keeping up with money laundering directives, and that there were subsequent directives. That phrase "constantly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would much rather hear that we were keeping ahead of it and that we were leaders in Europe rather than keeping up with what was going on in the EU. Scrambling to keep up, is the impression I am getting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that. The Department is competing with the private sector in many respects to do that, so I acknowledge that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Taoiseach for coming to the committee and for his presentation. I compliment the initiative as well as the staff in the Department of the Taoiseach who are working on it, Ms O’Donoghue and Mr. Duffy. They have led a phenomenal programme of engagement. I have had the opportunity to participate in some of it and I know it is very strong, constructive and creative. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the timeline for proposed legislation to allow for electricity suppliers to credit persons on excess electricity produced by means such as solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19269/22]