Results 21-40 of 217 for justice speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., Valerie Greaney, Rose Hanrahan, Nadine Lott and Zeinat Bashabsheh. This year, 2022, has itself been a year of significant violence against women. There has been significant progress from the Department of Justice, but despite our efforts in January to call it out in the way this House so collectively did, it has still been a very difficult year for women suffering at the hands of men,...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...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 points and broader questions concerning enforcement of custody and access. I refer in particular to the insidious use of our State's court structure to...

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...

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: ...marriages", and I agree. Both IHREC and the MRCI have made the point about the credibility requirement as opposed to reasonable grounds. This may be a matter to be queried with the Department of Justice in the context of explaining the thinking behind it. I am always interested in the intellectual thinking behind these things. I agree that the word "credibility" is challenging. We are...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...because it is dealt with in a different Vote? Is that with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science or is there any measure of that under the Department of Justice?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...a particular concern that the bulk of people who are there are suffering from sexual trauma, addiction, mental health issues. Deputy Martin Kenny quite rightly highlighted that in many respect. The new justice strategy which tries to minimise short sentences, I would suggest, is particularly important for woman who are in and out of Dóchas on very short sentences with the effect...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with everything the Minister of State said. I am sorry for having raised a subject, Garda youth diversion projects, covered in the justice Vote, but I presume that juvenile liaison officers come under the Garda Vote. Let us continue.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...were undertaken by Tusla. It is a quasi-judicial office in Harcourt Square that makes these decisions to prosecute young people and, as the Minister of State said, send them into the criminal justice system, with all the effects we know that has or does not have. If a decision is made to not prosecution because someone is going to be put on a course to allow them to, for example, manage...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57343/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57345/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57346/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57348/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57349/22]