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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: 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been made to accommodate resit of exams for students who have epileptic seizures on the day of a leaving certificate examination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will bring forward the memorandum to advance the School Inclusion Model to Cabinet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the draft legislation relating to gender recognition for transgender persons aged 16 and 17 years will be brought before Dáil Éireann; the progress made to date on the other matters set out in the programme for Government relating to this issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 1459. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied) to obtain urgent support in the form of a medical social worker given their ongoing illness and treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19686/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question is similar to those of Deputies Guirke and Gino Kenny. Enormous funding has been put in place by the Government to deliver these services but they are not being delivered by the HSE. That is an ongoing difficulty. I thank the Minister of State for her help and support in my constituency, where I am raising matters relating to early intervention and trying to get Ballyowen...