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Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate on Deputy Funchion's amendment. I have seen in multiple organisations examples of two solicitors doing the same job in an in-house commercial firm where it was only by accident that the woman found out she was doing the exact same job on a different side of the business as the man for 25% less pay. I recall a similar situation in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had their adult dependent payment reduced or lost in the past year due to audits; the age range of those who have lost their adult dependent payment or had it reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26142/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the approximate backlog on applications for the public services card; if public services card appointments have recommenced given level 5 restrictions have been lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26143/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: IDA Ireland (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in IDA Ireland client companies in 2020 by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26531/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Ireland (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs in 2020 by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26532/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will move to the next stage of development in view of the fact that the school has been in prefabs for 40 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25593/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work being carried out in relation to the urgent need for a permanent building in the Blackrock, Booterstown area of County Dublin for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25594/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Senator Currie should go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms O'Dongohue and Mr. Duffy so much for the work they are doing. It is really excellent and interesting. One of the things I am most interested is the feedback, particularly that from all the younger groups and especially the New Voices and New Generations on the Good Friday Agreement dialogue. Perhaps the officials could address that. One of the points that came out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was asking about the new voices the unit is trying to bring into the dialogue. The New Generations and New Voices on the Good Friday Agreement report is very interesting because these are, by definition, very new voices. I was struck by some of the comments in it. It was quite interesting around the interest in social change and all that but also evident from the report is a lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witness. It is great to see the different points of life being included, whether they are social, environmental or education issues. How were those groups brought together? How were they selected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is behind what the witnesses said was a lower level of awareness and engagement of young people around the agreement, particularly in the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Apologies have been received from Senator Gallagher. Senator Horkan is attending in substitution for him. The Senator is very welcome. The purpose of the meeting is to have an engagement with a number of stakeholders who have made written submissions on the general scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020. All witnesses are appearing virtually before the committee this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you for your contribution, Mr. Cahill. I totally agree with you on the point about judicial references. It has been a bizarre oversight, both for legal professional independence and judicial independence. It has been very curious over time. On the procedural point, although, arguably, it could always have been done under the current arrangements, the Law Society has been totally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Ms McNally. On a technical point, the 2017 submission is not on file as such, the reason being that it was submitted to a previous committee, which has essentially died. However, we are aware of the submission, it is available and I have read it. I ask Dr. Patrick O'Brien from Oxford Brookes University to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Dr. O'Brien. There has always been provision for the Minister to notify the public through Iris Oifigiúilof any appointments off the list, as it were. I am delighted Dr. O'Brien could contribute because the research he did with Robert Hazell and Kate Malleson on the UK system provides a really important political counterpoint whereby politics was taken entirely out of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am curious about Dr. Cahillane’s point on the conflict of interest. We will start with members' contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: To whom does Deputy Pringle wish to address his questions? Will we start with Dr. O'Brien?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The point was that in 2011, the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter, and the then Attorney General, Máire Whelan, decided that a proportion of the appointments were going to be women and that was all there was to it. That was a political decision and it did not matter what names arose, women were going to be appointed and that was the end of that. Would Deputy Pringle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy is very welcome to come back if there are other issues he wishes to raise.