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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We observed at the last meeting - I think members observed it among one another - that when we went to Northern Ireland recently to visit different groups, we noted the different people in attendance when we went to the WAVE Trauma Centre. I will not go further than that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 127. 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. [60766/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with my colleagues on head 42. The point was well made, so I do no need to make it again. On a point to Mr. Sunderland, I thought the piece on behalf of the Data Protection Commissioner is an excellent technical piece. It contributes enormously to the proposed Bill. If he does not mind, I will not ask him in great detail about it on this occasion. Nonetheless, I wonder how this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is contemporaneous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We have the benefit of having very experienced practitioners on this committee. Is there anything Mr. Collins wanted to respond to in regard to some of the points my colleagues have made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Did Ms Sheppard want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That was how I had read it. Head 42 has been the subject of some discussion today. Would the Department like to offer a view as to what, from its perspective, this provision brings to the proposed Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can the Department go into more detail on that? It seems to speak to the point about being unruly or disruptive. Where is this coming from? In fairness, in the context of the discussion we have had, the Department might want to provide more detail on what the thinking has been behind that. Is this a common feature? Where is this coming from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that. That is the benefit of having Ms Woods at the committee and able to respond to questions like that rather than us talking around in circles in regard to it. Although I am sure it will be doing it anyway, I suggest to the Department to discuss with the criminal committee from the Law Society and the Bar the operation of that. Did Mr Collins want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Powers) Bill 2021 (8 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was just wondering about the duplication of work by the Department and the committee, and the timing of when that is fed in. That is fine. I want to ask Mr. Collins two questions. We have covered head 42 in great detail. On head 43, and subsection (4) in particular, I want to get Mr. Collins's view generally on whether juveniles can be questioned without representation and whether the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the efforts to support remote and hybrid working in urban areas such as suburban villages of Dublin given the positive impact for communities and the reduction in commuter traffic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60043/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding provided to community and voluntary organisations, not-for-profit and charitable organisations by her Department to help with the impact of Covid-19 and related measures on the finances of the organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 specifically in relation to the issuing of driver licences to applicants for international protection that is, asylum seekers which is currently not permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to employ additional homecare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60363/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister and I congratulate him, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister of State, Deputy Browne on the work here. It is a very important piece of work and is a credit to all of them. I wish to raise an issue on which I have spoken to a number of asylum seekers and I know that this is not a universal one but is about the plans on housing. Many have told me...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for taking the question relating to the status of the National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028, published in April of this year. This is a seven-year plan for giving better support to childminding in the home. Can I have an update on that please?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Minister is correct to identify the amount of work that has had to be done in the childcare sector over the past ten years, where, ten years ago the Government spent nearly nothing on this sector. We are now spending, I believe, €716 million, with a doubling of the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme of childcare places and a real focus, that has had to be there, on...