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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not have enough information about that to be able to answer that now. Ukraine is under attack from Russia and we have a period of extreme global instability. The EU, as a stable group of countries committed to the values of human rights and democracy, needs to provide appropriate support for a democratic state that is under attack. We need to help it develop its systems within that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not that I am not capable of reading up on it. It is not that I am not aware. It is just that I am aware that I am here commenting as Minister of State and I am trying to be as careful, factual and reasonable as I possibly can be. It is not that I am uneducated on the point.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy suggested I read up.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Doherty has been finance spokesperson for many years, much longer than I have been involved in the Department of Finance or in this portfolio. He will therefore know a great deal better than I do the institutions such as the EIB, the EBRD and others, and that they have oversight personnel not just working throughout those institutions but on the ground where funds are going to make...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We talked about the memorandum of understanding between the Commission and the Ukraine Government, making very clear the purpose of the funds and how they were to be used. Article 5 of the memorandum of understanding, which I set out earlier, clearly sets out that the authorities provide monthly reports on revenues and expenditures of the state budget at the level of the major expenditure...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am not in a position to answer that question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Perhaps.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. It is already the case. When the EU budget was agreed last month the Commissioners set out proposals both to provide increased support for humanitarian need – the Deputy must forgive me as I do not have the figure to hand – and also funding to combat antisemitism in civil society. I thought that was a very important reflection on the budget negotiations between the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It will be as soon as possible. I am subject to the Whip and the House on timing but I am agitating for it to happen as soon as possible.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I hope so.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the committee for its engagement and support. This is an important Bill. It is important to focus on the repayment and the exposure of the State, but I remember it is not long ago that the EU was concerned about Ireland's capacity to repay funding that was provided to us in our time of need. We worked hard to make sure it was done, have come out of it well and are now net...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is about the extent to which we commit. We have committed €7 million to the EIB and we are providing extra headroom and extra exposure. We are trying to provide a structure under the 2022 and 2023 MFA programmes and make provision for the future. We have committed €7 million and are leaving ourselves some capacity in case we need to go further.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: To clarify, I think we have agreed sections 17 and 18. Is that correct, Chair?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: All of the different institutions, the EU, the EIB and in particular the EBRD, have a series of-----

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I grew up in Dublin city, went to school and college here and have spent my life working in Dublin. I have lived all over different parts of Dublin and to see a bus burning on O'Connell Bridge and to see the scale of violence and people terrorised in their shops was heartbreaking. I have also worked in youth justice since 2006 and know the Garda youth diversion programme has worked for...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They are playing both sides of every argument. I, Cormac and all of us needed their help and they were the only people who did nothing to help the community.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Sinn Féin members are playing both sides of every argument. I am not saying this politically. I am saying this because we lived through it in Ballybrack in July.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We needed your help. You were on the ground, had a strong local presence and did nothing to help. I will never forget it.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If I may, I will take 30 seconds to put the pages back in order, as I have been asked loads of questions during Senators' contributions, and I want to try and keep the right order. Forgive me but this is a genuine effort to respond to what Senators have said. I thank those Senators who made a contribution. I have taken a note of their points and I will try to respond specifically and...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is nothing Sinn Féin does-----